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Robert Parry also died of pancreatic cancer, I was writing on his site long before his diagnosis. He had symptoms, but initially it wasn't diagnosed, but months later it was and very shortly after he died. Anti-war has Ellsberg's response to his diagnosis and he seems very accepting, and turns 92 in a couple of months. If all the money spent on our godless wars went into finding a cure for cancer no doubt no one would be dying of it now. Disgusting to think about it like that, but I believe it to be true.

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The imminent death of Daniel Ellsberg is sad news. He made a contribution that was read by millions of people throughout the world. A contribution for which he will be remembered forever.

He is free in the US

He has spoken many times of the need for the same freedom to be given back to Julian Assange who made the world aware of the criminal USA and its exploits and mass murders and drug running and on it goes. But in Australia we have a government that is so enamoured with the US and its ongoing plans for total world domination that no effort has been made to remove him from a British prison.

He is not free in the UK

Australia. A weak country with little in the way of courage and nothing in the way of political independence from the world's #1 criminal country.

Shame, Australia.

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In 2016, I was a registered democrat, however I didn't vote for war mongering Clinton whom Assange referenced as a sick woman in need of power and who had a hunger for war. Being good natured he felt sorry for her. Not being of good nature I didn't feel sorry for a warmonger, a killer, a liar. In 2016 a friend was extremely mean spirited, abusive, a bastard, because I wouldn't vote for Clinton, and for the ill informed reason that a Trump win would place his finger on the nuclear button and kill us all. She said she had dreams of red flares, a nuclear blast from Russia under his rein. I haven't spoken to her since Trump's time in office, although I would love to know how she feels being so off the mark. I hope what is happening under her beloved party keeps her awake at nights, or if it doesn't her dreams are in shades in bright red. This was repeated on some level with several people I know, including a cousin furious with me because I referenced our wars in the Middle East as Illegal and not unhappy that Russia picked up Crimea, after Obama's coup. He died of cancer less then a year later after his crazy rant, and distancing himself. Marches during the build up to the war in Iraq, didn't change a thing, You think other countries cave to America, and I agree they do, but the people in America cave to their country as well, mostly due to sheer ignorance, and lack of time to search out the truth. They sucked up Russia-gate like candy, and the press was all too willing to help. Americans go with the flow, well, the majority do, as do European follow their master of deceit. I wish the very best for Assange, but truth tellers will always be singled out for abuse, and the longer the better, since he has become nothing more then a warning to others.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

You want to fail as a US political "representative?

Don't attend the next AIPAC meeting where US political policies are made, future Israeli election dollars are allocated and homage paid to the well-supported idea of apartheid.

Apartheid? No, not in South Africa, but it's quite OK with the USA in Israel.

I forgot....it also includes US permission to kill every Palestinian in Palestine being a must.

What hypocrisy is displayed by almost all elected representatives. Come on, please name those who argue against this theory? See how long they last with no Israeli electoral funding, a hostile candidate against them spending millions of shekels, articles written in Jewish owned media, family harassment at schools and Universities

What an environment under which a country can be governed. 330 million American people controlled by 9 million Israeli apartheidists and their US domiciled Neocon stooges, posing as loyal Americans. Add that to the thousands in high government positions in Defence, CIA, the Courts, Banks, FBI....anywhere they can do the bidding of the Netanyahu regime in Tel Aviv.

It is so ridiculous, it is almost a joke.

Serious Un-American activities every day. Where are you, Joe McCarthy, buried in 1957 but badly needed in 2023.

No Joe. Not Communists this time.

Much, much worse.

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

So do I. I would add since I have cured myself of so many things that many alternative remedies exist for cancer (other than slash, burn and poison) and most diseases. Allopathic medicine largely controlled by big pharma has not produced a healthy society to say the least.

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Decades ago I remember my JHS science teacher saying that within ten years we'll have a cure for cancer. Well decades have come and gone. I've developed a big mistrust in big pharma and the medical established in many ways, and I'm coming to believe too much money is to be made without cancer around. For quite some time big Pharma had one add after another for one disease after another on TV. Recently it's become less so, but had I listened more attentively I could have gotten a degree in some pharmaceutical house, and since more then half the ingredients used to make our drugs come from China I would probably have had to work there. hear they really skimp on quality when it comes to ingredients they produce that our going to poor counties. To sum up, no wonder so many have so much mistrust in medicine. If life on this planet were important why would so many being dying in wars, or human induced famines? Just look at what they are doing in Syria, in Yemen, I'm going on a rant. Sorry.

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