In the eighth and final part of this series, a look at the significance of Mike Gravel reading the Pentagon Papers in Congress.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 8: Why Gravel Did It
Category: International
Crowding the Pacific & Pressuring China
Ann Wright reports on the buildup of war practices in the region, including Russia’s training at the edge of U.S. territorial waters off Hawaii and massive U.S.-Australian maneuvers underway through August.
Craig Murray: FBI Fabrication Against Assange Falls Apart
Thordarson was always the most unreliable of witnesses, and it seems impossible to believe FBI cooperation with him was ever any more than deliberate fabrication of evidence by the FBI, says Craig Murray.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Arc of Decline
U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
Senator Mike Gravel Dies at 91
Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, who twice ran for president as an anti-war candidate and released the Pentagon Papers in Congress in June 1971, has died at age 91.
Key Witness in US Case Against Assange Changes His Story
An FBI informant on Julian Assange upon whose information the U.S. based a key part of its computer intrusion charge against Assange has now admitted that he lied.
1967: End of Israel’s ‘Golden Age’ in Africa
Yotam Gidron recalls a time when Israel — before its occupation of the Sinai Peninsula — was diplomatically engaged with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and projecting itself as a plucky postcolonial nation.
The Spirit of Carabobo Versus the Threats of Monroe
Simón Bolívar wrote that the United States “seemed predestined by Providence to plague Americas with miseries in the name of liberty,” Vijay Prashad reminds us.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 5: From Capitol Hill to Beacon Hill
In part five of this eight-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel makes the risky move to have the Pentagon Papers published outside Congress at Beacon Press in Boston.