Pentagon Papers
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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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Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative
Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless with sensitive documents. Continue reading
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Video: How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon… 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 News roundup 14-15 December, 2010
15 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 15 December, 2010 19:34 Friedman’s Half-Hearted, Inaccurate Defense of WikiLeaks Medvedev instructs intelligence officers to use WikiLeaks for Russia’s purposes WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange granted bail but still in jail WikiLeaks: Heroic or treasonous? US Air Force blocks access to WikiLeaks material Hacktivism for Cyber Democracy Joel S. Hirschhorn Ghana leader 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
The New Dark Age 