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 best statement on the clear intent of the Trump and Biden administrations to see Julian Assange, who committed no crime, die in custody, under conditions amounting to torture: counterpunch.org/2021/12/14/…
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How dare Biden lecture a @StateDept #SummitForDemocracy today while refusing to pardon Daniel Hale and Julian Assange, thereby killing freedom of the press for “national security.” Watch this @BPFreeSpeech video (it's all worthwhile- mine starts at 46min): piped.video/watch?v=zn4lXOzK…
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"To Avoid Armageddon, Don't Modernize ICBMs--Eliminate Them." Land-based ICBMs are a world-ending catastrophe waiting to happen, and are completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent. My article with @normansolomon in @thenation: thenation.com/article/world/…
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Join me this Sunday with @JoanCBaez and many others for a live event celebrating the film launch of "The Boys Who Said No: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War" by Judith Ehrlich. Tickets here: watch.showandtell.film/watch…
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Biden should drop his appeal to extradite Julian Assange and dismiss all charges against him, on the new disclosures that Assange has been subjected to the same governmental crimes that led to the dismissal of my own prosecution half a century ago. 1/ news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-as…
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3/ Here is Judge Matthew Byrne's statement dismissing the charges against me and Tony Russo, on May 12, 1973. AG Garland should take similar action on Assange this week. And if that doesn't happen, the UK High Court should dismiss the appeal. / nytimes.com/1973/05/12/archi…
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2/ These governmental crimes include illegal, warrantless surveillance, conspiracy to "totally incapacitate me" and--in the words of my judge--"bizarre events" that "offend a sense of justice." All of these apply exactly to the just-revealed crimes against Assange.
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3/ Here is Judge Matthew Byrne's statement dismissing the charges against me and Tony Russo, on May 12, 1973. AG Garland should take similar action on Assange this week. And if that doesn't happen, the UK High Court should dismiss the appeal. / nytimes.com/1973/05/12/archi…
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Did Gen. Milley save the world in January? Perhaps. He did what he should to avert a Chinese preemptive attack that might have led to nuclear war, based on their known fears of Trump’s madness. My interview with @Paul__Jay: theanalysis.news/milley-chin…
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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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The first US prosecution of a publisher, Assange, for truth-telling journalism now pends his extradition from the UK, the first of many unless Biden does what he should: drop the DOJ appeal now to extradite Assange. My piece with Alice Walker and Chomsky: newsweek.com/why-biden-prose…
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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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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
In secret, a tiny coterie of generals and affiliated hawks led the United States to the brink of initiating a voluntary nuclear war with China and "very likely" the Soviet Union.
It is shocking that there has not been more attention paid to this story by media—or government.
Top Secret plans and presidential decisions (not yet declassified) to initiate nuclear war against China in defense of Taiwan in 1958 were just revealed by me to the @nytimes. nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
The Pentagon Papers first appeared in the @nytimes 50 years ago on June 13 1971. My part of the story began two years earlier, with reverberations that are still being felt.
"I clearly remember the first time I handled classified documents. That day in October 1969 stands out for other reasons, as it was also the first time I was allowed to handle a Xerox machine." THE PENTAGON PAPERS AFTER 50 YRS. @americamag @DanielEllsberg bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
50 years ago today the NYT began publishing the Pentagon Papers: ‘I’ve never regretted doing it’: Daniel Ellsberg @DanielEllsberg
theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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Daniel Ellsberg retweeted
Sunday, June 13 marks 50 years since the #PentagonPapers' release, exposing the truth of the Vietnam War.
Join @GroundTruth and @UMassAmherst at 8 pm 6/13 for a radio special on @GBH 89.7 exploring whistleblower @DanielEllsberg’s attempt to end the war: bit.ly/3v82lLK
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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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50 years ago next month, the NYT began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment in the history of the Vietnam War and in leaks of Top Secret information. Its source, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure. /1 nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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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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I thank @charlie_savage for this excellent presentation. I'm glad @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.
50 years ago next month, the NYT began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment in the history of the Vietnam War and in leaks of Top Secret information. Its source, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure. /1 nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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