Democracy Now: Danial Ellsberg interview
"They realized that they had these terrific secrets that had to be kept secret from the American public because they were so criminal and dangerous — namely, that they were threatening North Vietnam with nuclear weapons, the same way that the criminal threats that are being made against Ukraine right now by Vladimir Putin. Nixon was making those threats through the Russian ambassador, Dobrynin, and then directly at that time. And that had to be kept secret from the American people at that time, because the American democracy would not have stood for that. So they had to shut me up.
And the problem then was to find out whether I had documents that could document, prove, what I was saying, because people were very reluctant to believe that a president could lie to that degree or could be so criminal to that degree and reckless, unless they had documents to prove it, which I didn’t have and really never did convince the public on this point. So I failed, in a way, in my name — my major project, which was to convince the public that a lying campaign, an imperial campaign against Vietnam, that had been carried on by four previous presidents, was being carried on by a fifth. I said it, but no one believed it. They didn’t want to believe that the president was lying to them, just as they had allowed themselves to be misled by Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy, Kennedy and Johnson.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/1/daniel_ellsberg_ukraine_war_pentagon_leak
-->How many criminal acts are committed that never see the light of day. The Nixon tapes actually talk about the possible use of nuclear weapons on Vietnam, so to some extent that accusation has been verified. But the larger truths remain, that the American People are always kept in the dark by the US media.
Ellsberg goes on to reveal Nixon's plot to engage China in a nuclear war. How many Americans know about that? Talking about Ukraine, Ellsberg points to a secret negotiations between Putin and Zelensky in 2022. The tentative peace plan was rejected by the US and the UK. Read the interview for an enlightened perspective on how our country is lying to us, just like it did during the Vietnam War.
"They realized that they had these terrific secrets that had to be kept secret from the American public because they were so criminal and dangerous — namely, that they were threatening North Vietnam with nuclear weapons, the same way that the criminal threats that are being made against Ukraine right now by Vladimir Putin. Nixon was making those threats through the Russian ambassador, Dobrynin, and then directly at that time. And that had to be kept secret from the American people at that time, because the American democracy would not have stood for that. So they had to shut me up.
And the problem then was to find out whether I had documents that could document, prove, what I was saying, because people were very reluctant to believe that a president could lie to that degree or could be so criminal to that degree and reckless, unless they had documents to prove it, which I didn’t have and really never did convince the public on this point. So I failed, in a way, in my name — my major project, which was to convince the public that a lying campaign, an imperial campaign against Vietnam, that had been carried on by four previous presidents, was being carried on by a fifth. I said it, but no one believed it. They didn’t want to believe that the president was lying to them, just as they had allowed themselves to be misled by Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy, Kennedy and Johnson.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/1/daniel_ellsberg_ukraine_war_pentagon_leak
-->How many criminal acts are committed that never see the light of day. The Nixon tapes actually talk about the possible use of nuclear weapons on Vietnam, so to some extent that accusation has been verified. But the larger truths remain, that the American People are always kept in the dark by the US media.
Ellsberg goes on to reveal Nixon's plot to engage China in a nuclear war. How many Americans know about that? Talking about Ukraine, Ellsberg points to a secret negotiations between Putin and Zelensky in 2022. The tentative peace plan was rejected by the US and the UK. Read the interview for an enlightened perspective on how our country is lying to us, just like it did during the Vietnam War.
