Author of "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" and "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers."

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Not one official has been prosecuted for crimes by the US during the 20-year “War on Terror." Only whistleblowing officials like @Thomas_Drake1, @JohnKiriakou, Reality Winner, Daniel Hale, @xychelsea and @snowden who exposed these crimes have been prosecuted...
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On Hiroshima day: a new film in production, "The Movement and the Madman," tells the little-known story about the most immediately effective protests in US history, preventing a devastating nuclear attack on North Vietnam in 1969. Watch preview clips: movementandthemadman.com/pre…
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50 years ago today, the New York Times published its first story about the Pentagon Papers, exposing the truth about the war in Vietnam. In this podcast from @GroundTruth & @UMassAmherst, I reveal what led me to blow the whistle on the war: umass.edu/ellsberg/whistlebl…
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50 years ago today, the @nytimes began publishing the Pentagon Papers. Join me and Noam Chomsky, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Myers, and @GarAlperovitz (who helped me release the Papers), today at 7:30PM EDT on a webinar organized by @VietnamPeaceCo1: vietnampeace.org/blog/pentag…
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Thank you @charlie_savage for this excellent presentation. I'm glad the @nytimes is still publishing classified information in the public interest, even though @TheJusticeDept increasingly regards this as an indictable offense: see Reality Winner, Daniel Hale, and Julian Assange.
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US first use of nuclear weapons should not be contemplated, prepared, or threatened anywhere, under any circumstances, including the defense of Taiwan. Support the Warren-Smith No First Use Act, H.R.921 / S. 272: indivisible.org/resource/tel…
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Join me and @Snowden in dialogue, moderated by Amy Goodman of @democracynow. Tomorrow 5/1 at 1:30pm eastern. Part of the conference organized by @UMassAmherst on the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Free, online, open to all. Register here: ellsbergpapers.org/conferenc…
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I'm thrilled to be participating tomorrow and Saturday in a conference organized by many at @UMassAmherst on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Free, online, open to all. Register here: ellsbergpapers.org
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I'm grateful to @ChristianGAppy, @krforde, @CMSennott, @scua_umass, @UMassLibraries, @GroundTruth, @UMassHistory, @UMassJournalism, @mitchhanley, @umassph, @UMassHFA, @SBS_UMass, @KSubbaswamy and many others for organizing this conference. Thank you!
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Impeachment Managers MUST #CallWitnesses, including Pence + Trump, given the new McCarthy revelation. Tweet/email/call them NOW: @RepRaskin @JoaquinCastrotx @DavidCicilline @RepDean @RepDianaDeGette @TedLieu @RepJoeNeguse @StaceyPlaskett @RepSwalwell cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/…
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Media ethicist, UC Berkeley School of Journalism dean @EdwardWasserman pans Janny Scott's @nytimes non-"scoop" on Neil Sheehan, the Pentagon Papers and me: "Now It Can Be Told" (Wrong): motherjones.com/media/2021/0…
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I join all defenders of freedom of the press in demanding that the Biden administration drop the unconstitutional indictment of Julian Assange and accept--not appeal--the decision of the British judge not to extradite him. nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/po…
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