Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp spoke to Kara McKinney at OAN News about censorship of news about Ukraine:
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— Tipping Point with Kara McKinney (@tippingpointoan) May 16, 2023
On the Nonzero podcast, journalist Robert Wright talks with legendary International Relations theorist John J. Mearsheimer about his upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, among other topics. Recorded April 19, 2023.
0:00 John’s upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
2:51 Is the US to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
10:00 Is Putin less rational than John assumes?
22:20 Why John is a Russia dove and a China hawk
29:50 Does China pose a threat to freedom around the world?
36:57 Why John thinks China’s rise threatens American security
47:58 Has globalization made great-power peace possible?
56:14 Should the US defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion?
From Democracy Now!:
We spend the hour with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer with only months left to live. Ellsberg, who turned 92 on April 7, may be the world’s most famous whistleblower. In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the Vietnam War. The Times exposé was based on documents secretly photocopied by Ellsberg and Anthony Russo while they worked as Pentagon consultants at the RAND Corporation. The leak ultimately helped to take down President Nixon, turn public sentiment against the War in Vietnam and lead to a major victory for press freedom. The Nixon administration went to extraordinary lengths to silence and punish Ellsberg, including breaking into his psychiatrist’s office. But the government’s misconduct led to charges against him and Russo being dismissed. Over the past five decades, Ellsberg has remained a leading critic of U.S. militarism and U.S. nuclear weapons policy, as well as a prominent advocate for other whistleblowers. “Why in the world are we in this position, time after time, of fighting against the self-determination or the nationalism of other countries, and taking on those murderous tasks as opposed to dealing with problems at home?” says Ellsberg in an in-depth interview with Democracy Now! A rush transcript is available here and here. The interview is in two parts below:
As we continue our in-depth conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, the famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower talks about his lifelong antiwar activism and responds to the more recent leak of Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine. Ellsberg also reflects on the many people who inspired him and says others who look up to his example should know that the sacrifices for building a better world are worth it. “It can work,” he says. Ellsberg, who was recently diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and given just months to live, spoke to Democracy Now! last week from his home in Berkeley, California.
Daniel Ellsberg, (born April 7, 1931, Chicago, Illinois), American military analyst and researcher who, in 1971, leaked portions of a classified 7,000-page report that detailed the history of U.S. intervention in Indochina from World War II until 1968. Dubbed the Pentagon Papers, the document appeared to undercut the publicly stated justification of the Vietnam War.
Daniel Ellsberg is probably the patron saint of them all whistleblowers. Anyone who knows anything about America’s misguided war in Vietnam knows his name to this day, because of one giant leap of courage and conscience. Leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, at great personal risk, changed the course of that history by revealing America secretly knew the war was unwinnable. Since 1971 Daniel has consistently spoken truth to power and is an American hero admired for his integrity, humanity, and brilliance.
Fifty years later, Ellsberg is still deeply committed to peace and transparency.
On this occasion, peace activist David Hartsough presented Daniel Ellsberg with the Sam Adams Associates award for integrity for shining light into dark places.
From Rising at The Hill:
Journalist Michael Shellenberger discusses his finding that Facebook appears to be censoring long-time investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
Facebook not only warns the reader against believing Hersh’s reports, but warns people who post them may get their accounts penalized by “reducing distribution or be restricted in other ways.”
Thursday night Tucker Carlson at Fox News hosted Glenn Greenwald to defend the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement (ASAP) against the indictment by the DoJ for speaking out against the Ukraine War. US Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen said that the 50-year-old black liberation movement was under the influence of Russia’s “maliign influence campaign. The indictment alleges the Russians were involved in a 2019 local election in St. Petersburg, Florida, one city where the APSP is based. “Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights – freedoms Russia denies its own citizens – to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States,” said Olsen.
Unfortunately, the video has been taken down from YouTube. Below is a shorter clip with only the second half of the segment.
In the first part, there are two clips of the UHURU Chairman.
