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Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 15
When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the US Government burgled the office of his psychiatrist to look for medical evidence to discredit him. Julian Assange has been obliged to submit himself, while in a mentally and physically weakened state and in conditions of the harshest incarceration, to examination by psychiatrists appointed by the US… Continue reading
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Dismantling the Doomsday Machines by John V. Walsh
The Doomsday Machine, the title of Daniel Ellsberg’s superb book is not simply an imaginary contraption from a movie masterpiece. A Doomsday Machine uncannily like the one described in Dr. Strangelove exists right now. In fact, there are two such machines, one in US hands and one in Russia’s. The US seeks to hide its… Continue reading
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New free press foundation helps WikiLeaks to subvert banking blockade
A new foundation dedicated to promoting media transparency and fighting censorship is to support WikiLeaks in its efforts to subvert a two-year block on payments by Visa and MasterCard. Continue reading
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Video: Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. ‘I congratulate Ecuador, of course, for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 10-11 March 2012
11 March 2012 — williambowles.info 012 Dempsey: US ‘preparing military options’ if needed for Syria Stars and Stripes Dempsey spoke to about 500 Navy and Air Force personnel at the Hickam officers club, fielding questions about cyberthreats, performing missions at a time of budget cuts, retirements and his feelings about Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 December 2011
5 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Wants Obama, Clinton as Witnesses Newser By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff (Newser) – Bradley Manning’s preliminary hearing is set to begin Dec. 16, and if the US Army private has his way, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be among the witnesses. The president and the secretary of Continue reading
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Daniel Ellsberg: We Need Whistle Blowers to Stop Murder
Daniel Ellsberg: There was no law against leaking the Pentagon Papers nor is there now against Wikileaks Continue reading
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WikiLeaks, the Internet and Democracy
21 January, 2011 — Democracy Now! Panel moderated by Paul Jay including Daniel Ellsberg, Clay Shirky, Neville Roy Singham, Peter Thiel and Jonathan Zittrain http://www.youtube.com/e/zqPQp3no9Qo WikiLeaks, the Internet and Democracy Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup for 30 November, 2010
30 November, 2010 — creative-i.info Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush US ambassador: Leaks not damaging WikiLeaks on Public TV: Defending the ‘Interests of the West’ Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables – Fulltext Search No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables Continue reading
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Daniel Ellsberg: The lying is being enforced by the upper levels
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing a giant trove of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables that is sending shockwaves through the global diplomatic establishment. Among the findings: Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran; Washington and Yemen agreed to cover up the use of U.S. warplanes to bomb Yemen; the United States… Continue reading
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26 October, 2010 Following the leak by w…
Following the leak by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks of almost 400,000 secret US army field reports from the Iraq war between 2004 and 2009. Join Julian Assange at the Frontline Club this evening in conversation with one of the most famous whistle blowers in history, Daniel Ellsberg who was responsible for the leak of the Pentagon… Continue reading
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The Iraq War Logs by Daniel Ellsberg
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Four hundred thousand documents, allegedly. It is, of course, a leak on a scale that I couldn’t have done forty years ago without scanners and digital capability. I used the most advanced technology at that time, Xerox, and I couldn’t have done what I did ten years before that. Continue reading
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Dangerous People Needed: “The Most Dangerous Man in America” By David Swanson
On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the film was “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”. This is a powerfully and engagingly constructed film about one of the most effective… Continue reading
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