Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg’s Not Yet Goodbye
Category: Vietnam
WATCH: The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today
Historian Carolyn Woods Eisenberg speaks on “Ending the ‘American War’ in Vietnam: Impact of the U.S. Antiwar Movement and Lessons for the Present.”
More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia to Invade
In the past year, additional proof has emerged proving the West’s provocation of Russia to give it its “Vietnam” in Ukraine.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee
If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
WATCH: Hedges & Kucinich on Ukraine & the Democrats
Journalist Chris Hedges interviews former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich on his show The Chris Hedges Report about the death of the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party. Aired on the Real News Network.
Fighting the ‘Psyopcracy’
It is a hard thing to combat because it’s not a physical enemy but rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people’s minds. And it has come to rule over us.
US Veterans Join Calls for Ending War in Ukraine
“We want urgent, good-faith diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, not more U.S. weapons, advisers and endless war,” writes Gerry Condon.
Britain’s Secret Propaganda on Vietnam War
Declassified files show that the U.K. Foreign Office’s propaganda unit glossed over Washington’s complicity in civilian bloodshed during its devastating war in Vietnam, John McEvoy reports.
Blood in the Archives
Newly declassified files from the National Archives of Australia show how the Department of Foreign Affairs provided PR cover for Indonesia’s genocidal scorched-earth campaign in East Timor, Peter Job reports.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful
In the world order now emerging, it is genuinely strong nations that will prevail over those reliant on power alone, and force will have little to do with it.