Thank You For Your Service – Caitlin Johnstone
▻https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/18/thank-you-for-your-service
#Ellsberg
Thank You For Your Service – Caitlin Johnstone
▻https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/18/thank-you-for-your-service
Guerre du Vietnam : #Daniel_Ellsberg, lanceur d’alerte des « Pentagon Papers », est mort
▻https://www.rfi.fr/fr/am%C3%A9riques/20230616-guerre-du-vietnam-daniel-ellsberg-lanceur-d-alerte-des-pentagon-papers-
MY FIFTY YEARS WITH DAN ELLSBERG - Seymour Hersh
▻https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/my-fifty-years-with-dan-ellsberg
I think it best that I begin with the end. On March 1, I and dozens of Dan’s friends and fellow activists received a two-page notice that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and was refusing chemotherapy because the prognosis, even with chemo, was dire. He will be ninety-two in April.
The Largest Act of Terrorism in Human History - Daniel #Ellsberg on RAI (4/8)
▻https://therealnews.com/stories/the-largest-act-of-terrorism-in-human-history-daniel-ellsberg-on-rai-4-
The British bombing of Hamburg in 1942, and the American firebombing of Japan in March 1945 that killed as many as 120,000 people in one night, created the conditions for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were considered mere extensions of the firebombing tactics, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
L’homme qui a fait tomber Nixon | ARTE
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/039913-000-A/l-homme-qui-a-fait-tomber-nixon
#whistleblower #pentagon_papers #lanceur_d_alertes #desobeissance_civile #ellsberg
inventeur de la notion d’aversion à l’incertitude / ambiguité (théorie de la décision)
The banality of systemic evil:
▻http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/09/15/the-banality-of-systemic-evil
Leaks, leaks, leaks... Has the younger generation lost its moral compass ? No - just the opposite.
’There can be no expectation that the system will act morally of its own accord. Systems are optimized for their own survival and preventing the system from doing evil may well require breaking with organizational niceties, protocols or laws. It requires stepping outside of one’s assigned organizational role’
As a HN commenter puts it at ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6437272 :
’Welcome to the hyper-individualistic, hyper-critical, post-communitarian world, where neither tradition nor any existing social institution is taken for granted. Everything is now open to critical scrutiny, and nothing that fails such scrutiny will receive anyone’s respect. Gone are the days when “institutions” [..] were universally agreed to be valuable things in themselves. Now they need to prove their own worth [..] because if they have no intrinsic moral worth, you can’t blame others for eroding them’ - Here comes ’the first generation to ascribe absolutely no intrinsic moral worth to the System’ [..] its ’perks are now gone, and with it the last traces of the System’s romantic halo. All that is left is a rotting social infrastructure with questionable instrumental value at best. [..] The population won’t behave anymore - the only psychological bias that kept them at bay has dissolved away [..] another superstition trampled under the relentless feet of reason’
#Wikileaks #Manning #Hammond #Swartz #Snowden #Arendt #Ellsberg #Jackall
Ellsberg: All Nixon’s Crimes Against me now Legal | Informed Comment
►http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/ellsberg-all-nixons-crimes-against-me-now-legal.html
[Nixon] would probably also feel vindicated (and envious) that ALL the crimes he committed against me–which forced his resignation facing impeachment–are now legal.
That includes burglarizing my former psychoanalyst’s office (for material to blackmail me into silence), warrantless wiretapping, using the CIA against an American citizen in the US, and authorizing a White House hit squad to “incapacitate me totally” (on the steps of the Capitol on May 3, 1971). All the above were to prevent me from exposing guilty secrets of his own administration that went beyond the Pentagon Papers. But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama,with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and (for the hit squad) President Obama’s executive orders. they have all become legal.