{"id":230758,"date":"2023-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=230758"},"modified":"2023-03-04T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:46:02","slug":"activist-dan-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-has-terminal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/03\/activist-dan-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-has-terminal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>2 Mar 2023 &#8211; <\/em>I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it\u2019s being circulated, so I\u2019ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_230770\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Daniel-Ellsberg_StephenHird-Reuters.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230770\" class=\"wp-image-230770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Daniel-Ellsberg_StephenHird-Reuters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Daniel-Ellsberg_StephenHird-Reuters.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Daniel-Ellsberg_StephenHird-Reuters-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Daniel-Ellsberg_StephenHird-Reuters-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Stephen Hird\/Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielEllsberg\/status\/1631381696661827584\/photo\/1\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielEllsberg\/status\/1631381696661827584\/photo\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg1.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg1.jpeg 603w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg1-201x300.jpeg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg2.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg2.jpeg 633w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg2-279x300.jpeg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg3.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg3.jpeg 574w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg3-253x300.jpeg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg4.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg4.jpeg 458w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg4-202x300.jpeg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg5.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg5.jpeg 488w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg5-215x300.jpeg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg6.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg6.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg6-300x191.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg7.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg7.jpeg 502w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/daniel-ellsberg7-221x300.jpeg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><em>________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/danielellsberg1-202x300.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-97833 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/danielellsberg1-202x300-e1677911537801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em> Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam War.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Mar 2023 &#8211; I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it\u2019s being circulated, so I\u2019ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! &#8212; Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":230770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[229,867,2299,1563,2289,818,95,70,1953,921],"class_list":["post-230758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-activism","tag-anglo-america","tag-daniel-ellsberg","tag-expose","tag-pentagon-papers","tag-proxy-war","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-vietnam-war","tag-whistleblowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230775,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230758\/revisions\/230775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}