Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine, Parts 1-13

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Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine, Parts 1-13

Postby Grizzly » Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:45 am

Lets sell books!

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/daniel-ellsberg-the-doomsday-machine-parts-1-13/#more-201307

“In this series, Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg’s latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes:

“No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness. Whether Americans, Russians, and other humans can rise to the challenge of reversing these policies and eliminating the danger of near-term extinction caused by their own inventions and proclivities remains to be seen. I choose to join with others in acting as if that is still possible.””


On Reality Asserts Itself, Daniel Ellsberg tells host Paul Jay that US intelligence agencies knew that Stalin was not planning to invade Western Europe or seek world domination, but based on the myth, the world came close to nuclear war – and it’s all happening again.



Hitler ended the German nuclear weapons program in 1942 when told it could end life on Earth*—the Americans were willing to take the risk; since the end of WWII the Cold War was to a very large extent, from beginning to end, a marketing campaign for subsidization of the aerospace industry, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay.


*Emphasis mine

the Americans were willing to take the risk; ...

Theatre has to be look real ... don'tcha know! :eeyaa :eeyaa :eeyaa
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