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“Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message”
Institute for Public Accuracy
Pentagon Papers whistleblower and longtime peace activist Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday at the age of 92.
In a pair of articles published this afternoon — “Daniel Ellsberg Wanted Americans to See the Truth About War” and “Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message.” — author and activist Norman Solomon reflects on the dimensions of Ellsberg’s commitments and historic impacts.
Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, co-wrote a piece with Ellsberg for The Nation magazine in 2021 about the especially grave dangers of nuclear war posed by ICBMs on hair-trigger alert, “To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles — Eliminate Them.”
NORMAN SOLOMON, solomonprogressive@gmail.com
Solomon’s new book War Made Invisible includes an interview with Ellsberg that was excerpted and published this afternoon by The Intercept.
https://accuracy.org/release/daniel-ellsberg-has-passed-away-he-left-us-a-message/