US Frequently Uses Threat Of Nuclear War, Warns Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg

In Part II of a 13-part discussion hosted by MintPress News, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower tells social justice activist Arn Menconi that the CIA exists to protect the president from being held accountable for the government’s secret foreign policy.

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In this Saturday, June 1, 2013 file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers, speaks during a rally in support of Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, outside the gates of Fort Meade, Md. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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‘Pentagon Papers’ Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Explains Why We Go To War

In a 13-part conversation, social justice activist Arn Menconi asked the whistleblower to explain why America goes to war again and again. Ellsberg’s answer is surprisingly simple.

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Daniel Ellsberg Chelsea Manning

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host this 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi is the founder of SOS Outreach, a nonprofit which supports at-risk youth through outdoor adventures that encourage them to lead better lives. In May, he recorded “Lied to

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New Group Says “Whistleblowers Welcome”

ExposeFacts launched on Wednesday, offering whistleblowers a channel for exposing the truth and, it hopes, preserving democracy in the process.

Katie Rucke
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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg introduces ExposeFacts.org Whistleblowers from the National Security Agency, State Department, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Justice and British Government Communications Headquarters, gathered with noted journalists and freedom of information and human rights advocates on Wednesday to announce the launch of

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Media, Public Fail To Notice Obama’s Continued Push For Military State

Vague language allows the U.S. government and military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, but the media isn’t reporting on it — even though it affects them — and the public isn’t bothered.

Katie Rucke
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Chris Hedges

The battle to strip vague language from the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that allows the U.S. government and military to arrest and indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, and also denies access to due process privileges guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, continues to play out in the U.S. judicial system without much support or anger

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Conspiracy Realists And The American Xenophobic Impulse

I am a conspiracy realist. Certain conspiracies are real. History shows conspiracy theorists are right much more often than the mobs that hunted them.

Edward Rhymes
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"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." -- James Madison How many times have we witnessed the truth-teller

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