Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: Pentagon Papers whistleblower still fighting militarism 50 years later
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication by The New York Times of excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents. These documents proved that the government of the United States had been lying to the people of this country for decades about a war that eventually ended with a U.S. withdrawal — but only after millions of Vietnamese had been killed, 58,000 U.S. troops were killed with hundreds of thousands more suffered from physical and psychological injuries.
ANSWER Coalition National Director Brian Becker is joined by Daniel Ellsberg. He is one of the most important whistleblowers in modern American history and the author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Daniel Ellsberg is also the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
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Seattle Block the Boat movement vs. Israeli apartheid
The Block the Boat movement continues. At the Port of Seattle, Falastiniyat, a Palestinian feminist collective, has led the struggle to block the unloading of ZIM San Diego, starting with a mass picket at 6 am on June 13. No longshoremen crossed the community picket. Only a violent police attack was able to force the unloading of the boat some five days later.
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What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?
Joe Biden took part in several key international meetings with one key goal in mind: intensify the new Cold War with China and construct a global front towards this end. This is the most intensive series of diplomatic summits for the Biden administration yet, and provides key insights about how it plans to manage the affairs of U.S. empire.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary since the founding of the ANSWER Coalition. For two decades, ANSWER has been leading people in the U.S. against war, militarism, and racism. ANSWER has also been a leading force in mobilizing support for the Palestinian struggle for over two decades, even when others in the U.S. antiwar movement had publicly refused to support the Palestinian movement.
Now the political climate has changed. This movement is growing. ANSWER volunteers and organizers are organizing in cities, big and small, across the country. We can only do this work because of the generous contributions of people who support this effort and realize the critical importance of having a strong antiwar movement inside the United States.
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