Ellsberg could never have gotten the Pentagon Papers published had he not first done something far larger, if he had not changed his life — the way he lived it and what he did with it.
Patrick Lawrence: Ellsberg & ‘The Process of Awakening’
Category: U.S.
Records Destroyed of Starmer Trips to DC During Assange Case
U.K. public prosecutor destroyed records showing Keir Starmer met with U.S. attorney general and other U.S. and U.K. national security officials in D.C. in 2011, when Starmer led Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden, Matt Kennard reports.
Misdirecting the Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Embracing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance document on anti-Semitism was a mistake by the Biden administration, writes Lawrence Davidson, a mistake likely made with eyes wide open.
Racism & US Empire
In political and media realms, the people of color who’ve suffered from U.S. warfare abroad have been relegated to a kind of psychological apartheid — separate, unequal and implicitly not of much importance, writes Norman Solomon.
UN Expert Says Close Gitmo After Historic Visit
U.N. Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the first such expert to visit the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, said those responsible for the U.S. “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of detainees there should be held accountable.
Born in the USA – Australia, India & the Quad
Australia has every reason to seek good relations and friendship with India, writes Peter Job. But that does not require an unqualified endorsement and deification of Prime Minister Modi and his agenda.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Breaking Bread with Authoritarians
In his way, India’s prime minister is as bad as some of the old Latin American dictators who got plenty of American support but never an evening meal — and certainly no cardamon-flavored strawberry shortcake for dessert.
Craig Murray: Ellsberg’s Day in Court for Assange
At Assange’s extradition hearing in London, Ellsberg fought against the way WikiLeaks’ publication of papers from Manning, similarly to the Pentagon Papers, had became demonized and then criminalized.
One Year After the Fall of Roe v. Wade
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, abortion care has become a patchwork of confusing state laws that deepen existing inequalities, writes Heidi Fantasia.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Godfather of Whistleblowers
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in…