'I work better under a deadline. It turns out that I live better under a deadline,' Pentagon Papers whistleblower and anti-nuclear activist DanielEllsberg quipped while announcing a terminal cancer diagnosis.
RootsAction co-founder and director Norman Solomon, a longtime friend andthat"words can't really convey what Dan Ellsberg has meant to the world, and along the way what he has been wonderfully giving to countless people he has reached out to and who've reached out to him."
"It was thanks to him that I didn't do something drastic," he added."And then when I was serving 23 months in prison, Dan wrote to me religiously, sent books, and offered his friendship and encouragement. I love the guy. This is a blow for all Americans."When I copied the Pentagon Papers in 1969, I had every reason to think I would be spending the rest of my life behind bars.
"I wish I could report greater success for our efforts," Ellsberg lamented."As I write, 'modernization' of nuclear weapons is ongoing in all nine states that possess them . Russia is making monstrous threats to initiate nuclear war to maintain its control over Crimea and the Donbas—like the dozens of equally illegitimate first-use threats that the U.S. government has made in the past to maintain its military presence in South Korea, Taiwan, South Vietnam, and West Berlin.
"It is long past time—but not too late!—for the world's publics at last to challenge and resist the willed moral blindness of their past and current leaders," Ellsberg argued."I will continue, as long as I'm able, to help these efforts.
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