“Coercive Diplomacy” in the Light of Vietnam written November 9, 1970. An analysis of the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign against North Vietnam as an experiment in coercion, wrongly inspired by Kennedy’s successful threats in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks with Matthew Hoh about Afghanistan on BraveNewConversations.Net
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Daniel Ellsberg interviewed by Barry Shainbaum
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[Interviews and videos of Daniel Ellsberg on Vietnam/Afghanistan parallels posted on The Real News Network]
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers premieres in the US today, 9/16/09 at Film Forum in NYC (it will remain at Film Forum for a 2-week run)
It premieres in LA on 9/23/09 here.
Here are press reviews: [More. . .]
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by Ann Beeson
Originally published in the Huffington Post
John Dean was counsel to President Nixon for 1,000 days and the government’s key witness in the Watergate trials. Both men played crucial, personal roles in the abuse of executive power during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, and both later blew the whistle with brutal honesty to expose the sordid actions of our national leaders during these crises. [More. . .]
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[This is the first installment of my personal memoir of the nuclear era, “The American Doomsday Machine.” This online book, being published on Truthdig and other sites, will recount highlights of my six years of research and consulting for the Departments of Defense and State and the White House on issues of nuclear command and control, nuclear war planning and nuclear crises. It further draws on 34 subsequent years of research and activism largely on nuclear policy, which followed the intervening 11 years of my preoccupation with the Vietnam War. Subsequent installments will appear on Truthdig and here.]
One day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all humanity or life, but the destruction of most cities and people in the Northern Hemisphere.
What I was handed, in a White House office, was a single sheet of paper with some numbers and lines on it. It was headed “Top Secret—Sensitive”; under that, “For the President’s Eyes Only.” [More. . .]
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