Author of "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" and "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers."
Berkeley, CA
Joined July 2009
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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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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
Vietnam War whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to government employees concerned about Trump's conduct: "This president is turning out to be a domestic enemy of the Constitution… Every one of them should be a whistleblower right now, and its not too late." on.msnbc.com/2IAtK3P
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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
.@DanielEllsberg just called Donald Trump a “domestic enemy of the Constitution.” That captures it perfectly.
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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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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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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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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
Tell them, Greta.
When people try to mock you personally instead of engaging the substance of your advocacy, it’s because they know how powerful you are, and that the truth is on your side.
Keep inspiring and organizing.
We’re going to save the planet.
All of us, together. 🌎
When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!
I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower.
#aspiepower
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Hang in there! Help is available.
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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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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
Now available: the entire interview and discussion with whistleblowers @DanielEllsberg and #KatharineGun, the latter having been recently portrayed by Keira Knightley in the film “Official Secrets.”
piped.video/watch?v=dNck0rrM…
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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
"it was very dismaying to me to realize that there really were so many people in the country who imagined telling the truth to your fellow citizens can be treason" - @DanielEllsberg
#Whistleblower #WhistleblowerComplaint bit.ly/2mRh94i
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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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