Daniel Ellsberg: Without Threat Of Nuclear War, We Could Have Avoided Vietnam War

In order to maintain American empire, Americans are lied to “All the time. Every hour of the day,” according to the ‘“Pentagon Papers” whistleblower.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Daniel Ellsberg during his two year tour in Vietnam, 1968. (Photo: Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg)

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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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.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
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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35 Countries Pledge To Legislate Nuclear Security

A total of 35 countries have pledged to turn international guidelines on nuclear security into national laws, a move aimed at preventing terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear material.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Nuclear Security Summit feature photo

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A total of 35 countries have pledged to turn international guidelines on nuclear security into national laws, a move aimed at preventing terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear material. Tuesday's initiative also commits countries to open up their security procedures to independent review, marking a further

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The Nuclear War That Almost Was

What America’s current foreign policy-makers should learn from a week in 1983 when the Cold War nearly turned a thermonuclear hot.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Thirty years ago this week, the world almost ended. In what seems an alternative universe compared with the one we inhabit today, aging leaders in the Kremlin looked out their windows and saw the West preparing for war. In response, they ordered the Soviet Union’s conventional and strategic nuclear forces to go on alert and tasked the KGB with

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‘Rot’ In The Ranks — Of US Nuclear Missile Crews?

“We are, in fact, in a crisis right now,” Lt. Col. Jay Folds, deputy commander of the 91st Operations Group, told subordinates in an email.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It was an attitude problem, Air Force commanders insisted, not a matter of competence. And besides, they contended, security was never at risk in spite of what one commander called "rot" in the crew force. Assurances aside, the crew's failings appear unusually worrisome given its assignment: manning a nuclear missile base and being

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