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San Francisco Chronicle
March 28, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg became a household name in the 1970s after releasing the Pentagon Papers, the infamous documents that would help solidify opposition to the Vietnam War. At 86, Ellsberg remains a crusading figure. The Kensington resident's most recent book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of aÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 10, 2018
If you think that sounds like a cue for someone like Daniel Ellsberg - the ultimate whistleblower, whose Pentagon Papers exposed nearly a quarter-century of US lying over Vietnam - you could be right. In his new book, The DoomsDay Machine, Ellsberg examines the perils of nuclear weapons strategies.
Montgomery Advertiser
March 9, 2018
Many San Franciscans considered Manning a whistleblower and hero similar to celebrated Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, then an East Bay resident of Berkeley. Soon, Ellsberg joined the controversy and I had the opportunity to interview, at length, the man former Secretary of State Dr. HenryÃâà...
Truthdig
March 9, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg's Advice for How to Stop Current and Future Wars. comments. An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a ... Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don't want people to hear. “If you have information that bears on deception or illegality in pursuingÃâà...
Antiwar.com
March 8, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don't want people to hear. “If you have information that bears on deception or illegality in pursuing wrongful policies or an aggressive war,” he said in a statement released last week, “don't wait to put that out and think about it, considerÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 6, 2018
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg recorded this statement in February 2018, shortly before the 15th anniversary of when the Observer newspaper published the explosive March 2, 2003 story "US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war" -- based on a leak by GCHQ linguist and analyst KatharineÃâà...
Alexandria Times
March 1, 2018
It also made Daniel Ellsberg seem like a hero for stealing and making public the Top Secret documents that became known as the Pentagon Papers. But was he? Having worked in both the journalism and national security worlds, I have mixed emotions about the events depicted in “The Post.” My collegeÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 1, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. defence analyst who in 1971 went public with proof of how the U.S. government was deceiving the public about the ... Back in 1971, a disgusted Daniel Ellsberg decided he could no longer stand that Americans were being lied to by their government about the Vietnam War.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 27, 2018
More than 45 years after he became famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers and earning the wrath of President Richard Nixon and his plumbers, Daniel Ellsberg is again a focus of public consciousness. The hit movie The Post reprises part of the Pentagon Papers story, reminding older Americans (andÃâà...
WRKF
February 23, 2018
Legendary political activist Daniel Ellsberg on the legacy of the Pentagon Papers and the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Capitol Bureau Chief Mark Ballard comments on the first week of the special legislative session on the budget. Singer Cory Branan on his performance tonight in Baton Rouge.
WGN Radio
February 21, 2018
Author Daniel Ellsberg writes The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner joins John to explain why Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) were first developed, and why we no longer need them. And, Daniel tells John how he received the portrayal of him in “The Post.” Audio Player.
Shadowproof (blog)
February 18, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg is best known as the whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers, which exposed what United States government officials really knew and thought about the Vietnam War. But he also worked as a nuclear war planner when he was a RAND Corporation researcher and consultant forÃâà...
Buffalo News
February 9, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg's latest book is a disturbing analysis about how close we have been – and still are – to a nuclear holocaust. Ellsberg, the whistleblower behind the provocative Pentagon Papers in 1971 which became the basis for the Steven Spielberg film "The Post," is an expert on decision theory andÃâà...
New York Times
February 9, 2018
Your book “The Doomsday Machine” is a warning, based on your experience at the highest levels of nuclear planning at RAND in the early 1960s, that an accidental or intentional nuclear holocaust killing nearly every human alive could happen much more easily than most people realize — which is aÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
February 5, 2018
The activist, who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, joined the film's writers for the honor on Friday night in Los Angeles. The third annual Veritas Awards, hosted by the Los Angeles Press Club, honored the writers and figures behind The Post on Friday. Daniel Ellsberg, who famously made copies ofÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 2, 2018
historian and political economist. He revealed this week he secretly helped Daniel Ellsberg leak the Pentagon Papers. Alperovitz is the author, most recently, of Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth. He is also the co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative and co-chair of its Next System Project.
CBC.ca
February 1, 2018
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Unfortunately, having given them to my brother for safekeeping, he had stored them in a trash dump, buried under a visible marker. And the marker -- which was a green stove -- was rolled away by a hurricane, Tropical Storm Doria, and the papers themselves were lost. We spent aboutÃâà...
SFGate
January 30, 2018
For a generation of Americans, Daniel Ellsberg was a household name. The intrepid former defense policy analyst has reemerged in the nation's eye on the heels of his new book “Doomsday Machine” and following the portrayal of the frenzy caused by his release of the Pentagon Papers in StevenÃâà...
cleveland.com
January 17, 2018
In this June 29, 1971, file photo, then-U.S.-Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, an opponent of the Vietnam War draft, reads to reporters in a Senate hearing room from what he said were the Pentagon Papers, which he had obtained indirectly from Daniel Ellsberg. Gravel later had the papers published as theÃâà...
New York Magazine
November 28, 2017
“Keeping secrets was my career,” Daniel Ellsberg says. “I didn't lose the aptitude for that when I put out the Pentagon Papers.” This might come as a shock, considering that the former Defense Department analyst is best known for leaking classified information nearly half a century ago, thus bringing about aÃâà...
India Today
December 31, 1999
Daniel Ellsberg is the original whistleblower who, in 1971, leaked a 7,000-page top-secret US Department of Defence report to the media. The report, which came to be known as The Pentagon Papers, revealed that successive US governments had lied to the American public about nearly everything aboutÃâà...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
For more than 40 years, Daniel Ellsberg has been known as the man who exposed the U.S. government's secrets about the Vietnam War. But there's an even bigger secret he's been keeping about his involvement in planning for an even bigger war. That plan, in his words, was a "crime against humanity.".
