50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals US Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan

[@tylerhackner9731]

Never give your life for a corrupt government

[@factanonverba7547]

Not for any 'government'

[@72marshflower15]

Gubmint is a meaningless placebo as what matters is who owns and operates it. The US Capital EST is a conservative entity often refered to as "Deep State"..

[@giannirocco7492]

These generals,these military planners were insane then,they're insane now!

[@metalbean813]

profit for death. our powerful interest have created a scenario were our politicians will kill millions if it makes them money. history does not change because the people have no say. it only repeats itself. EAT THE RICH. the people stopped viet nam war. the special interest then created laws to oppress our press lol. now we only hear the side of money, never the side of humanity

[@giannirocco7492]

@@metalbean813 YEP!!!

[@rhonda6791]

Sadly because money is all they care about. We see it everywhere, at the boarders, prisons, the list is endless. In fact they see humanity as a weekness to use and exploit, it’s enough to make you weep.

[@72marshflower15]

We've got traitors running the country..

[@giannirocco7492]

@@rhonda6791 hard to agree more!

[@defianceforhumanity]

The elephant in the room, U$A is the singular greatest threat to all life on earth.

[@defianceforhumanity]

@RM Yeah, not long ago I would have wrote the same rant as you. This is true, laws and institutional systems were designed to insulate the elite and they manipulate the matrix for the subjugation of the masses. However, their "immortality" is a perception similiar to that of religious faith, a construct. Humanity itself is the beast, part of our nature. The solution of harmonious life is as elusive as its origin. The farther society advances, the further our ego expands. In short yes, the reach of influence and manipulation of elites is often greater than that of individual nation states and they are determined to extend that reach globally. The conundrum is humanity's needs require advancements in social and cultural developement. No, the elites do not have unlimilted or inmeasureable control over nations or individuals. Its an indisputable fact that U$A is a militarized-industrial complex. One needs to understand EXACTLY what that means and when one does, then the simplest truth will be known as this is the greatest singular threat to all life on earth.

[@defianceforhumanity]

@RM I agree, education of our children which includes our example in lifestyle choices is the greatest resistance to this threat and continuing the hope that humanity may comprehend our existence.

[@defianceforhumanity]

@RM Nice, appreciated response. Matrix. noun. 1. an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or structure. My YT ID, "kids in the Hall," is a comedy troupe from Canada, comparable to Saturday Night Live, that was on HBO late 80's early 90's that I watched late night to break the monotony of studies. As I remember, the show was comprised of dark, often satirical, comedy sketches about the dynamics of changing social relations. 👊🏼✌🏼

[@muhammadaliaziz9131]

Amy Goodman, please take out time for a full length interview with the legendary Whistle Blower Daniel Ellsberg because his shocking revelations are are great lesson for posterity.

[@angiealexis3717]

Free Assange, Free Snowden!

[@vallee7966]

I wouldn’t put Assange into the vaulted pedestal of “whistleblowers”. His corrupt collusion disseminating DNC emails with the Russian hackers was not stuff of heroism. Instead, left us with the trump criminal enterprise for 4 yrs threatening democracy and American global credibility.

[@deelee4639]

Free manning

[@TheAllAmericanSocialistMTR1000]

This man is truly a gem.

[@xelefonte]

(4:11) was HILARIOUS. You know Daniel Ellsberg has been around a while when he makes the slip up of calling the current US President, Harry Truman. Got damn… that was like a blast from the past moment from him when he would mention Truman. But, it shows how long he’s been in this space.

[@LOW-KEY78]

We are ruled by psychopaths

[@infiniteinfiniteinfi]

The system is psychopathic.

[@RobinHerzig]

*We should not initiate nuclear war…*

[@infiniteinfiniteinfi]

Sounds like elementary sanity.

[@factanonverba7547]

"generals gather in their masses, just like witches at black masses"

[@factanonverba7547]

@RM "evil minds that plot destruction, sorcerers of death's construction."

[@uber1337hakz]

@RM The song "Warpigs" by Black Sabbath

[@GermanLeftist]

@@factanonverba7547 "In the fields the bodies burning / As the war machine keeps turning"

[@factanonverba7547]

@@GermanLeftist "death and hatred to mankind, poisoning their brain washed minds."

[@Rhythmicons]

No wonder he warned against the Military Industrial Complex.

[@1VirginiaL]

Daniel Ellsberg, thank you; Ellsberg is wonderful! At age 90, joining Assange and others -- again -- contemporary, by releasing this document of 1958. May all of the USA and the whole world come together behind these heroes, for the sake of democracy.

[@katong1953]

The US now wants to develop tactical nuclear weapons, which are smaller in yield. This makes them more usable! From events in 1945 and 1958, we can see that the US is the country least hesitant to start a nuclear war. Nuclear war is thinkable to the Pentagon. Note that to this day, the US has refused to renounce nuclear first strike. Americans must stop their military-industrial complex from developing tactical nuclear weapons.

[@louisepelte2942]

Free Julian Assange

[@vallee7966]

I wouldn’t put Assange on the vaulted pedestal of “whistleblowers”. His corrupt collusion disseminating DNC emails from Russian hackers was not stuff of heroism. Leaving us with the trump criminal enterprise for 4 yrs threatening democracy and American global credibility. Let the liar stay in jail.

[@louisepelte2942]

Assange is not a whistleblower. He is a publisher who revealed war crimes of the US government.

[@staticking1626]

How do you ask the last man to die for a lie - John Kerry

[@factanonverba7547]

Don't ask

[@harrymoyer866]

Will Japan be forced to rise as a military power from these uncertain circumstances?

[@_seola_]

warmongers mind will NEVER change

[@DonnaJung630]

how can we stop this insanity? we dont want war 😡

[@michaelfrieber]

When he says Japan does he mean China?

[@infiniteinfiniteinfi]

At what time?

[@vallee7966]

He said that if USA had nuked China in ‘58, most likely Japan would have been attacked by China in retaliation. Sacrificing Japan, what I understand.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

@malorkayel Russia has never been communist. The USSR was but Russia is not. Russia did not exist until the early 1990's. Because the US supported Chiang Kai Shek in an effort to preserve the US opium smuggling operation to China, the US supported Chiang, which pushed Mao's China into the arms of the USSR.

[@vallee7966]

@malorkayel I’m going to have to disagree with you about the radiation comment. After we dropped our nukes on Japan, we fully documented the radiation effects on populations. Some footage we still can’t access.

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

So Amy switches back to Trump -- who's gone -- rather than give Ellsberg time to talk about Assange and a whistleblower "about to be sentenced" -- ? Or a deeper discussion about potential nuclear catastrophe?

[@pohakumana]

Amy is really just MSM, she panders. "Pandemic Report" no more "war and Peace Report" we came here for. She's a parrot. And she ALWAYS cuts off her guests who the only ones we come here to hear now.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

I have a bit of a background with production of videos. Behind the scenes there are editors, producers, techs, and management. The points Amy is supposed to make are listed on her show-sheet. She probably has an earplug that goes to the producer, who will tell her when to move on, question more, or change the subject.

[@paulmccarter908]

I heard this on the DN podcast and was kinda shocked how aggressively Amy interrupted her guest; almost a hostile interview.

[@goldeq8521]

WOW ! it was close!

[@factanonverba7547]

What's with this timer nonsense? Democracy now is slipping.

[@benjaminfranklin1525]

Yep, she keeps interrupting important parts of the revelation.

[@LOW-KEY78]

Woooow

[@robroy7456]

What difference does it make now? Another walk down memory lane with zero significance today.

[@gilbertwitherspoon7321]

God make war!!!

[@moussaouiahmed]

.................................................AM

[@jimmyduncan8072]

Happy Birthday President Trump!

[@pohakumana]

AMY STOP CUTTING OFF YOUR GUESTS!!!! We want to hear what THEY have to say. Not you! Get your editing/timing straightened out. THIS is YOUR MO. DAMN!! you cut off Daniel Ellsberg. Such AMATEUR work.

[@thinker1056]

Wow it's fascinating how you fallen to such low levels. You taking the money and you become propaganda to

[@SecondsOfMine]

What do you mean?

[@firstlastlastfirst7143]

Doreknobs all get a turn.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

Since 1942 the US gives tax breaks to media companies that follow the US narrative.

[@GermanLeftist]

Taiwan is a de facto independent state. To act like it is still just part of China and that China has a de juro right to it because back in 1861 the US did not recognise the decleration of independence of the Confederacy is bit silly. Those two things are not really equal and fit for equation or even comparison. The Confederacy and the Civil War happened almost immediately. Same with the War of Independence that started in 1776. Taiwan has been a de facto independent nation for about 70 years now.

[@vorlon81]

Not when you lost the CIVIL war in China by running away. Losers don't get to declare independence mate.