Daniel Ellsberg chooses to castigate Russia for making 'Nuclear threats.' Russia was merely stating Russian policy, which is essentially defensive, as compared with that of USA, which is aggressive.
Elsberg claims that Russian designs on Crimea are illegitimate, and compares them to US designs on North Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Crimea was part of Russia in various ways for over 200 years until 1991. It is populated largely by ethnic Russians who speak Russian. After the illegal US sponsored coup in 2014, the vast majority of Crimeans voted to join Russia. That referendum result have been verified by a large number of western sponsored polls.
Ellsberg is wrong. Crimea should be regarded as Russian.
This is not the first time I've felt that Ellsberg was both-sidesing things.
Ellsberg has said many good things. But he did not reveal the Mai Lai massacre. He did not expose the Gulf of Tonkin fabrication. I ask, honestly, what smoking guns were revealed in the Pentagon Papers.
Thank you Charles, for this comment. I know it’s hard to stand up to propaganda when an admired, dying man is proclaiming it. I admired Dan when he stood up in ‘71 and told truth to power and I admire all the whistleblowers of all the past years, most especially Assange and Chelsea who have really suffered for their work. (PS, Dan took his time to stand up for Assange, and I’ve never heard him do so for Chelsea.). I’m sorry he’s dying and hope he has no pain but as to listening to what he says, I’d rather listen to Rev Barber, or the GREAT thinker Fredrick Douglas, or Ida B. Hays. They fought the battles from an oppressed position that the middle class is more and more finding itself in today, as the elites take away the New Deal from whites. It’s a great awakening and we already have new hero's, who daily slog thru the work—Christian Smalls, Rev Barber, Greta, The Squad. And Caitlin. She may not know it but what she does here on this site is exactly what the heroes of my day did to open minds and form coalitions. Thank you Caitlin.
PS I know people are going to jump on my admiration of The Squad, but that just shows a lot of ignorance. And that they are being effective. Many so called liberals jumped on Ellsberg, Chomsky, etc. and LOOK what the Libs did to Assange. I love and admire and respect the Squad, because I know how hard their work is an$ unless YOU run for some positions of government, you have no idea what you’re criticizing.
This is the last I will reply to you and suggest that others ignore your effort to inject your extreme-white, extreme -right sympathies into these discussioons.
I see no purpse to be served by your multiple posts of the disproven antisemitic document that was recognized as a hoax 120 years ago, nor to give credence to the writings to White-extremist, Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.
Many will look at the advanced degree and, before reading, will think his writings must provide valid information. However, a mere 2 to 3 minutes of research revealed that he is on the board of Occidental Quarterly, a white nationalist magazine, formed in 2001, by millionaire William H Regnery II, a white nationalist, himself, who founded the alt-right magazine to aggressively promote the racist nonsense that as whites become a minority "the civilization and free governments that whites have created" will be jeopardized by the actions and ideas of non-white peoples.
Of course, we could look at the shortcomings of the white-created nations and come to the conclusion that they could use a fair amount of improvement.
By your multiple posting of the same information, I am reminded that a lie told often enough will soon come to be beleived, by many, to be the truth.
Daniel Ellsberg chooses to castigate Russia for making 'Nuclear threats.' Russia was merely stating Russian policy, which is essentially defensive, as compared with that of USA, which is aggressive.
Elsberg claims that Russian designs on Crimea are illegitimate, and compares them to US designs on North Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Crimea was part of Russia in various ways for over 200 years until 1991. It is populated largely by ethnic Russians who speak Russian. After the illegal US sponsored coup in 2014, the vast majority of Crimeans voted to join Russia. That referendum result have been verified by a large number of western sponsored polls.
Ellsberg is wrong. Crimea should be regarded as Russian.
This is not the first time I've felt that Ellsberg was both-sidesing things.
Ellsberg has said many good things. But he did not reveal the Mai Lai massacre. He did not expose the Gulf of Tonkin fabrication. I ask, honestly, what smoking guns were revealed in the Pentagon Papers.
Thank you Charles, for this comment. I know it’s hard to stand up to propaganda when an admired, dying man is proclaiming it. I admired Dan when he stood up in ‘71 and told truth to power and I admire all the whistleblowers of all the past years, most especially Assange and Chelsea who have really suffered for their work. (PS, Dan took his time to stand up for Assange, and I’ve never heard him do so for Chelsea.). I’m sorry he’s dying and hope he has no pain but as to listening to what he says, I’d rather listen to Rev Barber, or the GREAT thinker Fredrick Douglas, or Ida B. Hays. They fought the battles from an oppressed position that the middle class is more and more finding itself in today, as the elites take away the New Deal from whites. It’s a great awakening and we already have new hero's, who daily slog thru the work—Christian Smalls, Rev Barber, Greta, The Squad. And Caitlin. She may not know it but what she does here on this site is exactly what the heroes of my day did to open minds and form coalitions. Thank you Caitlin.
PS I know people are going to jump on my admiration of The Squad, but that just shows a lot of ignorance. And that they are being effective. Many so called liberals jumped on Ellsberg, Chomsky, etc. and LOOK what the Libs did to Assange. I love and admire and respect the Squad, because I know how hard their work is an$ unless YOU run for some positions of government, you have no idea what you’re criticizing.
This is the last I will reply to you and suggest that others ignore your effort to inject your extreme-white, extreme -right sympathies into these discussioons.
I see no purpse to be served by your multiple posts of the disproven antisemitic document that was recognized as a hoax 120 years ago, nor to give credence to the writings to White-extremist, Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.
Many will look at the advanced degree and, before reading, will think his writings must provide valid information. However, a mere 2 to 3 minutes of research revealed that he is on the board of Occidental Quarterly, a white nationalist magazine, formed in 2001, by millionaire William H Regnery II, a white nationalist, himself, who founded the alt-right magazine to aggressively promote the racist nonsense that as whites become a minority "the civilization and free governments that whites have created" will be jeopardized by the actions and ideas of non-white peoples.
Of course, we could look at the shortcomings of the white-created nations and come to the conclusion that they could use a fair amount of improvement.
By your multiple posting of the same information, I am reminded that a lie told often enough will soon come to be beleived, by many, to be the truth.