Note from Daniel's son @MichaelEllsberg: with his blessing, I now maintain this account as a living memorial to Daniel's ideas and work.
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I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going!
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To @POTUS and @TheJusticeDept: Stop the extradition of Assange. I am as indictable as he is on the exact same charges. I will plead "not guilty" on grounds of your blatantly unconstitutional use of the Espionage Act. Let's take this to the Supreme Court.
EXCLUSIVE: “Let me tell you a secret… I had possession of the all the Chelsea Manning information before it came out in the press” - Pentagon Papers whistleblower
Daniel Ellsberg says he was given leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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All the young activists rising up give me hope as I leave my life. As the movement against the Vietnam War showed, young people can save lives when they make their care known in action. Keep going. The world is in your hands. cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/03/23…
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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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With my book completed after 40 years, at 86 years old, my Twitter life begins today! amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-…
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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.
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The American press has remained in denial for 40 years--since my case--that the Espionage Act has wording that could be aimed directly at them. Now they're staring down the barrel of that Act, which could be used against American journalists and publishers for doing journalism.
Pentagon Papers whistleblower @DanielEllsberg says Julian Assange's extradition trial puts U.S. journalists at risk. "The American press is staring right down the barrel at the use of the Espionage Act against American journalists and publishers for doing journalism."
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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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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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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:
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Join me in contributing to @xychelsea's defense fund. Here's my statement about her unjust and dangerous re-imprisonment- via @FreedomofPress: freedom.press/news/daniel-el…
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A "human error" like yesterday’s in Hawaii could, at any time, end nearly all human life, by triggering the US or Russian Doomsday Machines. It is a human error ever to have brought these systems into existence. Either they go, or we will.
As fun as it is to read four-hour experts on Hawaii's nuclear false alarm, if you're curious to learn from one who literally helped write our nuclear war plans, the father of American whistleblowing, @DanielEllsberg, just published a tell-all: amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-…
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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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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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Whatever Assange is guilty of, I'm guilty of- and will be again. Biden must drop the attempt to extradite Assange and should cancel the standing indictment against him, which erases First Amendment freedom of the press. exberliner.com/features/juli…
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SAVE THE DATE: The Ellsberg family will host an online public memorial and celebration of Daniel Ellsberg on Sunday, 10/22, from 1-3 PM Pacific / 4-6 PM Eastern. A livestream link will be posted on this profile beforehand. We look forward to celebrating Dan’s life with you.
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INSIDERS, DO NOT RESIGN! LEAK, EXPOSE, TESTIFY, TELL THE TRUTH FROM INSIDE--WITH DOCUMENTS, WHILE YOU STILL HAVE ACCESS TO THEM! theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I had the honor and pleasure of being on a panel with Alice Walker and Noam Chomsky opposing the extradition to the US of Julian Assange (whose extradition hearing starts tomorrow). 1/
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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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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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Links to Daniel's post-diagnosis interviews:
ellsberg.net/interviews-post…
[Photo of Daniel and Patricia in 2020, by @chrismichel ]
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"I was part of a plan that should never have been made, that was a crime against humanity."
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This is what @xychelsea gave to Julian Assange on @wikileaks, 9 years ago, aptly named "Collateral Murder. It's why she's back in jail today: collateralmurder.wikileaks.o…
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💯 Daniel absolutely rejected what he called the "Ellsberg Good / Assange, Manning, Snowden Bad" media narrative that used him as a foil against them. Any journalist advancing this story should at least have the honesty to note that Daniel thoroughly rejected it -Michael E. 🧵⬇️
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Here are Daniel Ellsberg's final thoughts on what he called "my main concern in life," the danger of nuclear war. An interview with @MartinHellman2 on 4/19/23, published yesterday on @BulletinAtomic. May we collectively heed Daniel's final warning:
thebulletin.org/2023/06/dani…
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Daniel would 100% agree with this article. --Michael E.
Daniel Ellsberg Is Lauded in Death by the Same Media That Lets Assange Rot in Jail
by Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan_K_Cook @DanielEllsberg @Snowden #danielellsberg #Ellsberg #EdwardSnowden #Snowden #Whistleblower
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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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Don’t do what I did; don’t wait until the bombs are falling or thousands have died if you have information that might avert that.
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A note from @MichaelEllsberg: Soon I will be transitioning Daniel's Twitter account to a profile in his memory. I will occasionally share gems from Daniel's voluminous unpublished writing, which he authorized me and my brother @RobertEllsberg to edit and publish.
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"It has been said that it’s good to live each day as though it were your last, but that’s not really practical. Living this *month* as though it is my last, however, is working out well for me, and I can recommend it."
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Chelsea Manning is in jail resisting Trump's war on the free press.
“I Know No One More Patriotic”: Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again ow.ly/xtry30o05W9
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The UK is complicit with the US in criminalizing journalism. I call on @JoeBiden and @TheJusticeDept to drop the extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange.
🚨 BREAKING🚨
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Alice Walker React to the Assange Extradition Sign Off:
"It is a sad day for western democracy."
ow.ly/hBbF50JAenU
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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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Efforts to extradite Julian Assange threaten freedom of press in the US consortiumnews.com/2018/12/1…
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I'm showing my age in this video--as is the nuclear era. But this piece by @CBSNews on the dangers of the last half century--and right now--could hardly be better! cbsnews.com/video/pentagon-p…
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Audio of full interview with @BBCHARDtalk here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct32…
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John Kerry is wrong about me, and he's especially wrong about Edward Snowden. My new @Guardian op-ed: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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From @MichaelEllsberg: Dad used to joke that his "retirement plan" was federal prison. But he was only half-joking. In 2021, he dared the government to put him there, in his final act of civil disobedience, at age 90. Via @charlie_savage: nytimes.com/2023/06/18/us/po…
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Today Daniel would have turned 93. We miss you dearly Daniel!
This video is from Daniel's 87th birthday--the last big birthday party of his life--hosted by @MaryEllsberg and her husband Michael, 4/7/18.
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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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EVERY attack now made on Assange and @wikileaks was made against me and release of Pentagon Papers http://bit.ly/eZnep8
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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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I've wanted this story of the "Lavender Hill Mob" out for over 40 years. @GarAlperovitz's decision now to reveal his own (key) role, along with others, in the publications of the Pentagon Papers, is a challenge to the Trump/Sessions war on the press.
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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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Edward Snowden has done more for our Constitution in terms of the Fourth and First Amendment than anyone else I know. nyti.ms/1a4W2i1
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Recap from @Consortiumnews of my testimony today in the Assange extradition hearing: consortiumnews.com/2020/09/1…
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Daniel Ellsberg died one year ago today. We miss you every day Daniel. Thank you for all the gifts you bestowed on us and the world.
Here are some of the tributes that poured in after his death: ellsberg.net/ellsberg-obitua…
Here is the celebration of his life, held on 10/22/23:
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A note for media: @ChrisMichel has generously made his 2020 photos of Daniel and Patricia available for sharing via the link below. Please credit him as follows: "Photo by Christopher Michel @ChrisMichel"
christophermichel.com/People…
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Pundits are out praising my father as a way of denouncing @snowden, @xychelsea, Assange, and modern whistleblowers by comparison. Daniel is on record vehemently rejecting praise of him used for this cynical purpose. Media, please at least mention that fact. --Michael E. 🧵⬇️
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There has not been in American history a more important leak than Snowden's ow.ly/lSrjM
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We will be arranging a public Zoom memorial for Daniel in the coming months. This will be announced here on Daniel's Twitter with plenty of advance notice. Thank you.
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I wonder how many years Michael Kinsley now thinks I should have spent in prison for revealing the Pentagon Papers? pressfreedomfoundation.org/b…
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.@Consortiumnews and @kgosztola have excellent coverage of the Assange extradition hearing (variously being described as Kafkaesque, a kangaroo court or a Stalinist show trial).
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Daniel surrendering to federal authorities in Boston on 6/28/71. Patricia is on the left. Reporter: "Do you have any concerns about the possibility of going to prison for this?"
Daniel: "Wouldn't you go to prison to help end this war?"
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Daniel’s surviving family:
Wife- Patricia Ellsberg (85)
Son- @RobertEllsberg (67)
Daughter- @MaryEllsberg (64)
Son- @MichaelEllsberg (46)
(Grandchildren below...)
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2/ Assange is facing the charges under the Espionage Act that I was the first to face 49 years ago, for revealing truths to the American public that the US government had wrongly kept secret.
The panel starts at 20:32; the introduction is worth watching, but repeats (a glitch).
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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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Nothing like it! Tuesday on @PBS: the premiere of "The Movement and the 'Madman,'" a film on the most effective mass protest action during the Vietnam War, perhaps any war. It stopped Nixon’s secret plan to initiate nuclear attacks on North Vietnam. A must-see.
Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement.
“The Movement and the ‘Madman’” premieres Tue, March 28 at 9/8c on @AmExperiencePBS.
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I'm deeply grateful to all of you whose years of support for @xychelsea won her freedom! bit.ly/2jeh9EM
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(Robert’s children) Nicholas Ellsberg (36), Catherine Ellsberg (30), and @LukeyEllsberg (28)
(Mary’s children) Julio Martinez - @martinezjuliod (38) and Ana Martinez - @acmartineze (34)
Nicholas and Sophie Ellsberg have a daughter Eileen, age 3, Daniel’s great-granddaughter
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As a human, I am proud of the thousands of Russian citizens who are braving prison for protesting non-violently Putin's aggression in Ukraine. Join me in sending them this message of solidarity:
act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/ac…
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If the US can extradite for prosecution a foreign publisher like Julian Assange for publishing true information and documents, then no journalist in the world is safe from imprisonment in the US for the rest of their lives. 1/
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I encourage insiders who know we are being sold war with North Korea on false pretenses: consider doing what I should have done much earlier than I did. Consider going to Congress and the press directly with documents that show the truth to the public. newsmax.com/newsfront/daniel…
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Last week of danger of Trump war with Iran. Get this to insiders with access to documents on provoking war: Don't resign- leak, warn Congress with documents before bombs start falling. Do what I wish I had done, 5 years earlier, with the Pentagon Papers! n2k.world/ellsberg
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People should vote for Biden--who is not a progressive--without illusions, with eyes open to his severe shortcomings. But not to vote for Biden is to close your eyes to the disastrous consequences for climate and democracy of 4 more years of Trump. commondreams.org/views/2020/…
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Yes, @RealDonaldTrump is playing chicken with a nuclear weapons state, for the first time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. We need a @Snowden inside to expose Top Secret estimates of millions of lives at risk.
As we flirt with nuclear war for the first time in decades, @DanielEllsberg releases perhaps the most authoritative work ever produced on the subject (he helped write the plans!). amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-…
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Dear @Jack- the Ellsberg family thanks you for your extremely generous donation to @FreedomofPress, which will further Daniel’s mission to expose and reduce the dangers of the government secrecy system. freedom.press/news/honoring-…
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Why we need the Pentagon Papers of war in Syria and Iraq leaked right now freedom.press/blog/2014/10/p…
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My son @RobertEllsberg has it right. He knows the story intimately, having lived through it. These are among the facts I would have told Janny Scott at the @nytimes had she asked me for comments before publishing her article.
“Now It Can Be Told” runs the headline on a breathless @nytimes story of how Neal Sheehan got the Pentagon Papers from my father @DanielEllsberg. Sheehan wanted to counter the usual (accurate) narrative that my father gave the papers to the Times. . . nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pe…
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Tell your representative, especially Senate, to make ending our complicity in crimes against humanity in Yemen a matter of highest priority in January!
Let’s get out of Yemen in January! The history of War Powers & how the War Powers Act to end U.S. involvement in Yemen could easily pass. @RoKhanna @RepThomasMassie @ChrisMurphyCT @SenSanders @SenMikeLee are pushing it in Congress counterpunch.org/2018/12/24/…… @NatCounterPunch
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This was the best interview with me after my trial ended in 1973. (In @rollingstone) Lots of substance and secrets: virtually all still very timely today.
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Comparing Julian Assange's extradition hearing on Espionage Act charges and my own prosecution on those charges--the first for a whistleblower--half a century ago. Interview by @kgosztola: piped.video/watch?v=neP0z2oS…
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Please join us for an online public memorial and celebration of the life of Daniel Ellsberg: Sunday, Oct. 22nd, 1-3 PM Pacific, 4-6 PM Eastern. Via livestream: ellsberg.net/memorial
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We can liberate America from Donald Trump now *only* by voting for Joe Biden by Nov. 3rd. Progressive pressure on Biden accelerates on Nov. 4th.
Longtime anti-war activist, @DanielEllsberg, expects to have a lot of oppositional activity ahead of him in the next 4 years, no matter who is president. He‘d rather battle Biden in the White House.
There is no political activity more important than making sure we #VoteTrumpOut
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The Ellsberg family welcomes you to join us today from 1-3pm PT/4-6pm ET to remember Daniel and celebrate his life. Via livestream below: ellsberg.net/memorial (This will be recorded/posted after)
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NOTHING IN THE WORLD is more urgent than stopping @RealDonaldTrump from responding to a North Korean missile test, or even warhead test, with an armed attack, assuring catastrophic war with this nuclear-armed state. goo.gl/ajRZWs
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Militarism, climate, Wall St, campaign finance- we can't afford 8 yrs of "more of the same." The world needs @BernieSanders as US president.
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[This is Daniel's son @MichaelEllsberg] This Wednesday, April 7th, Daniel Ellsberg turns 90. Please leave him a short video birthday greeting via the link below. I'll unveil these to him on his birthday. Thank you! :) tribute.co/danielellsberg/
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I discuss on @democracynow my latest indictable offense against the Espionage Act:
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I am proud and honored to announce our new @FreedomofPress board member: Edward Snowden. bit.ly/L8H3se
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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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Tell @POTUS: Give Chelsea Manning #TimeServed. I support @xychelsea
piped.video/RftuhmJ1RsU Petition: tinyurl.com/chelseatimeserve…
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the beautiful online memorial and celebration of Daniel Ellsberg's life, on October 22, 2023. The outpouring of love for Daniel was moving to our whole family. The video of the memorial is here: piped.video/watch?v=PY43unAA…
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Here's my MSNBC appearance on John Kerry and how the Espionage Act would prevent Snowden from receiving a fair trial: msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-re…
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