Author of "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" and "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers."
Berkeley, CA
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There must be no Trump resumption of nuclear testing--the arms control equivalent of drinking bleach: abolition2000.org/en/news/20…
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Statement from @abolition2000 against resumed nuclear testing: abolition2000.org/wp-content…
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Conversation with me hosted by @wgbh, @UMassAmherst, and @CMSennott on "the importance of whistleblowing as a safety valve for American democracy" (starts 6min in): piped.video/watch?v=HvI_Cksp…
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Judge rejects the real defense in the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 trial today (@kingsbayplow7): kingsbayplowshares7.org/2019…
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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants on trial now in Georgia for "disarming" a Trident submarine base are exactly right: "The ultimate logic of Trident is omnicide"- the collateral murder of nearly every human on earth: accuracy.org/release/ellsber…
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My interview with @acTVismMunich on The Doomsday Machine: piped.video/oX63qLamDNc
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Some thoughts I haven't expressed before on secrecy and whistleblowing:
bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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I’m sickened to see this shameful betrayal of the Kurds —US arming/using them for our purposes, then abandoning them to be massacred—replayed for the seventh time in my lifetime. See my forecast last time (2003) 1/ theintercept.com/2019/10/07/…
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In a 2003 debate with @BillKristol, before Iraq, I predicted: “The Kurds have every reason to believe they will be betrayed again by the United States, as so often in the past. The spectacle of our inviting Turks into this war… could not have been reassuring to the Kurds.” 2/
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Kristol: “Surely your point isn’t that because we betrayed them in the past, we should betray them this time?” Me: “Not that we should, just that we will.” Kristol: “We will not. We will not.” (Wrong, as usual.) 3/ tomdispatch.com/post/174894/…
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The 3rd time (out of 8) the US armed then betrayed the Kurds, in 1975, then secretary of state Kissinger said in response to anguish of US operatives: “Covert action is not to be confused with missionary work.” It could be an epitaph for Kissinger and for the American empire. 4/
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Reference for Kissinger quote: washingtonpost.com/archive/o…
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Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the day I started copying the Pentagon Papers. My older son @RobertEllsberg was 13 when he helped me for several nights in that action of whistleblowing civil disobedience. This helped shape his life of right livelihood, as described here:
Whistleblowing is about truth-telling, says @RobertEllsberg. And he should know, since he helped his father, @DanielEllsberg, one of our country's most significant whistleblowers so far. My story:
ncronline.org/news/justice/r…
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It’s time for adults to join @GretaThunberg and worldwide schoolchildren in #FridaysForFuture—general strikes during the workweek—demanding urgent, effective action by executives, legislatures, courts, and corporations to limit climate catastrophe.
Today we are so inspired to see #FridaysForFurture #ClimateStrike take place around the world ✊🌍
Watch #RightLivelihoodAward Laureate @DanielEllsberg’s message to @GretaThunberg at #SchoolStrike4Climate in Stockholm!
@Fridays4future @pushsverige @KlimatSverige @FossilFreeSWE
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I admire and thank the whistleblower. I hope the dozen or so witnesses who heard the president commit a crime on the phone will end their complicity in cover-up by telling the truth to Congress, as this brave person did. piped.video/gD0ggxL20_k
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With one click, you can tell your congressional representatives to dismantle the hair-trigger on the Doomsday Machine: act.rootsaction.org/o/6503/t…
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This is the letter I sent to every member of Congress, along with my book “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”: rootsaction.org/news-a-views…
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Trump's war on the free press--his "Enemy of the People"--escalated to a new and dangerous height yesterday, unveiling the first indictment in our history of a publisher: for the crime of committing unauthorized journalism.
“It’s a very serious assault on the First Amendment. A clear attempt to rescind the freedom of the press” - @DanielEllsberg speaking w/ @SharminiPeries
#FreeJulian #Assange therealnews.com/stories/dani…
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My heartfelt thanks to the million+ young people worldwide who joined @GretaThunberg in the #ClimateStike- demanding that their derelict elders awaken to our own responsibility to avert catastrophic climate change. #StudentStrike
Today we are so inspired to see #FridaysForFurture #ClimateStrike take place around the world ✊🌍
Watch #RightLivelihoodAward Laureate @DanielEllsberg’s message to @GretaThunberg at #SchoolStrike4Climate in Stockholm!
@Fridays4future @pushsverige @KlimatSverige @FossilFreeSWE
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