Daily Archives: March 30, 2018

Why ransomware attacks target local governments like Atlanta

I’ve studied nuclear war for 35 years — you should be worried. | Brian Toon | TEDxMileHigh

Nuclear,

End of a nuclear era

Why Doesn’t the Flu Vaccine Always Work?

Decoding the Weather Machine Sneak Peek

Noam Chomsky – Government in the future 1970


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Published on Aug 26, 2012

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Day at Night: Noam Chomsky, author, lecturer, philosopher, and linguist


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Published on Jun 24, 2014

Views on political and social matters are offered by linguistics expert Noam Chomsky. Topics include his involvement in the antiwar movement of the ’60s. CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970’s.

Young Noam Chomsky on Daniel Ellsberg (1971)


Manufacturing Intellect
Published on Aug 27, 2017

Noam Chomsky defends the disclosure and leaks of the Pentagon Papers and argues against prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg.
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his is from the TV series, “The Advocates”, which in this episode debates the question, “Should The Government Drop The Charges Against Daniel Ellsberg?” Appearing in this clip are Victor Palmieri, Howard Miller, and William Rusher.

DANIEL ELLSBERG: THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE


Commonwealth Club
Published on Dec 13, 2017

In 1971, young defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg took on the Nixon administration, risking his career and freedom to leak the Pentagon Papers and show the world that the U.S. government had lied repeatedly about winning the war in Vietnam. Since then, Ellsberg has been a tireless activist for freedom of the press, whistleblowers’ rights and government accountability. Now, for the first time, Ellsberg is sharing his findings from his most ambitious project yet, The Doomsday Machine—a stunning insider’s tale of the American nuclear regime in the 1960s.

Ellsberg will reveal the terrifying truth behind the American Cold War defense strategy, from the disturbingly large number of people with the ability to initiate a nuclear strike to the shocking plans developed by the Eisenhower administration for all-out nuclear war. Ellsberg will also discuss his fears that the Trump administration’s current policies will plunge the world’s great powers back into a costly arms race with the potential for global annihilation.

Ellsberg is an award-winning defense analyst, author, speaker and activist. A Harvard-educated nuclear strategist and former Department of Defense policy expert, Ellsberg gained national attention when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, creating a scandal for the U.S. military and greatly discrediting those who advocated for continuing the Vietnam War. Ellsberg is also a co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Join Ellsberg for an important conversation about truth and deception, military excesses, and the very survival of the human race.

Daniel Ellsberg: “The Doomsday Machine” | Talks at Google


Talks at Google

Published on Feb 1, 2018

With recent news stories about big red buttons and a blockbuster movie (The Post) about the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg’s story is very timely. He’s the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, and his book is an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America’s Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Framed as a memoir–a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating–this gripping tale reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing “doomsday machine” and avoid nuclear catastrophe. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful–and powerfully important–book about not just our country, but the future of the world.