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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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