Ellsberg gave the following address to the Belmarsh Tribunal on Friday night. A video and transcript follows.Hi, I’m Dan Ellsberg. One of the foundation stones of our government here in the United States, for democracy and a republic, is our First Amendment to...
When the folks at Antiwar.com asked me to write a note to help them raise funds I immediately accepted for several reasons.First of all, because I'm a longtime reader, almost since the beginning (1995!). Their news section is indispensable. Jason Ditz's news briefs...
Statement by Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower: “Obama having opened the legal campaign against the press by going after the roots of investigative reporting on national security — the sources — Trump is going to go after the gatherers/gardeners...
After 18 years in prison, the man who exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the world, Mordechai Vanunu, remains restricted under obsolete principles contradicting the UN Charter on Human Rights, prominent whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told Russia Today. Calling...
The State Department has released its "American Documentary Showcase," which includes... “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.†Ellsberg responds: WOW! Hot damn! Sometimes even the current USG comes through -- with a show of...
Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional...
I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the release in Boston in February of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who my own...
Dear friends: I just learned, late this New Year's Eve, of my friend Mordechai Vanunu's outrageous arrest, facing further imprisonment, for "meeting with foreigners" (of which I have quite openly been one, on several occasions). I plan to do whatever I can to bring...
Anthony Russo, my partner in the March 1971 leak of secret government archives (The Pentagon Papers) exposed how successive U.S. administrations manipulated America into the Vietnam War, died August 5, 2008 at his home in Suffolk, Virginia. Tony Russo came to be my...
Tomorrow, July 8th, could mark the beginning of official condoning of warrantless surveillance of law-abiding citizens in the US, not to mention foreign nationals. Much of this information has been covered by Glenn Greenwald in the past week. In the video below, I...
