The Minneapolis Post interviews Dan Ellsberg:
“MP: What are your reading habits?
“DE: I start the day by looking at Antiwar.com and then Commondreams.org. And I also read the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle every morning. But the newspapers can be very frustrating. I find they’re not always the best way to start the day.”
Good ol’ Dan! AÂ smart guy, and a good friend. But imagine, one morning, he sits down at his computer, and goes online to discover that — there’s no Antiwar.com!
It could happen — and, indeed, it will happen –Â unless our fundraising campaign makes a mad dash for the finish line this weekend. So, c’mon, dear readers, let’s get moving — contribute today!
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Looks like many of their minds have been programmed for a third and fourth world war.
Population is driven towards equilibrium.
Nature creates a balance between various races and species.
We are the same yet differnt.
Dan Ellsberg Surely has good taste and manners, and his reading habits are to be emulated. Congrats antiwar.
I know, I know, advertising permits the possibility of punch-pulling to satisfy the advertisers. But Antiwar.com could keep control over who spends revenue on its site, e.g., not allow the Claremont Review to buy space, and thus raise money from advertisers who’d be very unlikely to put the screws to Raimondo and Co. to tone down their remarks.
Just to head off criticism let me say I’ve been a regular contributor for years now. The fundraising suspense still gets to me–imagine the stress on the Antiwar.com crew! There must be a better, or at least an auxiliary way, to defray some of this site’s expenses. What might happen to Antiwar.com should (assuming pigs can fly) we actually have a year or two without a war going on somewhere?
A few years of honest-to-goodness peace would be a nice problem to have. I’m not sure what we’d do though: maybe we’d find another topic?
Hmmm…. maybe the fund drive message needs some improvement. Is there a fiduciary statement saying “We assert that has been obtained in and been spent as follows . Signed .” Or one could display a “treasury burn-down” bar all the time with a clear low-water mark so that people know when to get ready to open their wallets?
Where are the marketing wizards and game theorists when you need them?
I hasten to add that I already contributed.
$280,000 a year? Don’t you think that is hell of a lot to ask your readers to dish out? On top of that, a) you publish every inflammatory article about Iran, whether true or not, b) you seldom post an article condemning Israel’s brutal massacre of Palestinians, and c) once you even asked your readers to finance your lover’s legal cost.
At core you are very conservative. Libertarian? I doubt it very much. One of your worst features is Horton’s interviews. The man rarely listens to what the other guy says.
You are helpful, but certainly not indispensable.
what site are you reading?
Aris wrote,
You mean, inflamatory anti-Iran articles?
They never publish commentary like that. As for articles from the MSM, they should do that—we need to keep track of what the neocons are up to.
Huh?
I don’t know. AntiWar.com is my favourite website and I have supported it financially, but I am a Canadian and Americans rejected the chance for REAL CHANGE by not rallying to Ron Paul’s standard. If Americans don’t care enough about their constitution, armed forces and country to stop the madness then why shoud I? Really as a Canadian it’s no skin off my nose, if Americans don’t care enough to save themselves from themselves. I mean when I read that exit polls showed so many people opposed to the Iraq war voted for McCain istead of Paul, I just have to wonder about Americans. In Germany the Prussian militarist traditions and influences were only finally discredited after 1945 when the country was occupied and in ruins. Maybe something like this needs to happen to Americans to MAKE THEM CHANGE. I don’t know. Americans continue to dissapoint me at every turn.
Antiwar.com is also my favourite website and I am a Australian.
Also, like you Andy, many millions of Americans dissapoint me.
How can they be so f…..g dumb? Or is being warlike a part of the American way? War of Independence and all that comes after.
JC,
We Americans get a lot of crap pounded into our heads from the time we are born until the time we die. There are a few of us who manage to see through the greater part of this continuous barrage of disinformation, but to this point, none of us have managed to counter it on a wide scale. Perhaps something has been started with the Ron Paul campaign, but we are not incapable of squandering this opportunity.
I like this video of The Seekers performing “Waltzing Matilda” at a soccer, excuse me, a football game in Australia. I particular take note that the fans do not assume some state worshiping posture, like standing and holding their hand over their heart, as the song is performed very beautifully by Judith Durham.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtmJ7rLuwTM
G’day Ingrate
Just a couple of corrections to your response.
1.”Waltzing Matilda” is not our National Anthem. It is just a stupid song about a “swaggie” (bum, in your lingo) who steals a sheep and is arrested. He then chucks himself into a “billabong” (pond, small lake) and drowns himself. How or why this has become popular over the years is anybodys guess.
2. Our National Anthem is “Advance Australia Fair” we stand up for but no hand over our heart
3. We do call soccer, soccer. We also have Australian Rules Football, Rugby League and Rugby Union.
But most all we have a majority of the voting public supporting the new Govt. for the removal of our troops from Iraq soon and Afganistan later.
We hope you do to.
I hear you, Andy, and understand wht it took tp finally discredit the Prussian militarist traditions and influences. Pray for us.
It is “inflammatory,” with two m’s, and I meant inciting. Name one article by Raimondo that condemned Israel for its butchery of Palestinians. There have been, to be sure, articles attacking Israel for influencing US foreign policy.
To read MSM’s lies, disinformation and dishonest reporting, why not visit their sites or read their papers and magazines. Often it seems to me that AntiWar.com is in fact one of their mouthpieces, propagating their s$*t to a wider audience.
Aris’s criticism re antiwar’s failures to properly condemn Israel. I am also so deeply saddened that it won’t take on/critize the failures of those Americans, that Israel claims to represent and to whom it has granted citizenship, that do not decry the horrors of the government of Israel and of Zionism. Thank you, Aris.
I’ve given at the start of the contribution drive as I always do. With that being said, it kind of makes you wish that you were the Federal Reserve and U.S. Government. I mean, wouldn’t it be great to be able to go out, chop down a tree, turn it into pulp, cut it into stripes of paper then place some ink and a guy’s picture on it and call it a billion dollars? I wish had that power.
I wish AW would stop posting yahoo links. They disappear within weeks and make it difficult to reference a story if they’re the only link on the topic.
“I’m from Australia” “I’m from Canada” “How can America be so dumb?”
I think your countries have contributed to the same wars. It is a continual universal struggle for hearts and minds to understand peace.
The difference is sir, Americans HAD A CHANCE to vote for real change and they failed to use the opportunity.
Is Ellsberg really so great?
-Not (Borat pronounce)
After all these years he forgets omits how much he relied on Leslie Gelb.
He poses as anti-establishment. Piffle.
Antiwar is great, but saying that doesn’t make us great.