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A famous light on secrets: UMass examines legacy of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg, second from left, in 2019 with Gar Alperovitz, far left; Patricia Ellsberg; and Janaki Natarajan as he joined his co-conspirators at UMass after the school acquired his papers. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO UMass history professor Christian Appy is a principal organizer and a moderator for the virtual conference on Ellsberg’s legacy. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO As his co-defendant, Anthony Russo, right,...

Half a century later, Robert Ellsberg looks back on his father’s famous release of the Pentagon Papers—and the consequences of that decision for his father, for him and for the nation.

Stardate: 3619.2 Captain’s log. Kirk, Spock, and Rizzo, Leslie, and a third person from security have confirmed that Argus X has a vein of tritanium. Spock phasers off a specimen. A cloud starts to creep out of a rock, but then retreats. However, Kirk recognizes a sickly sweet honey-like odor. Rather than beam back, he orders Rizzo to take his team and investigate, searching for dikironium, and to shoot any cloud formation they see with their phasers set on disruptor B. Rizzo had detected dik...

In February 2002 I was at a union-NDP conference in Ottawa watching US television in my hotel room. Back home I reported on the conference to the Labour Party caucus and stated as an aside that the US was going to war with Iraq. Helen Clark stood up straightaway and said "we won't be going with them." Jacinda Ardern needs to do the same now.

© Nati Harnik | AP Vice Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of US Strategic Command, speaks during a change of command ceremony at Offutt AFB in Nebraska, Nov. 18, 2019.Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must "consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer" and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries. "There is a real possibility that a regi...

‘Big Short’ screenwriter breaks down Wall Street’s GameStop meltdown [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-BIG-SHORT-GAMESTOP:LA] When a bunch of random day traders on Reddit recently sparked a major Wall Street frenzy, it didn’t take long for screenwriter Charles Randolph’s phone to start ringing. As the Oscar-winning co-writer of Adam McKay’s 2015 financial-crisis dramedy “The Big Short,” Randolph had shown that it was possible to take a dizzyingly complicated Wall Street story and s...

The “Big Short” Investor Isn’t Touching Bitcoin More on: Image source: Getty Images Warren Buffett isn’t the only harsh critic and basher of cryptocurrencies. Steve Eisman, the head of private investment firm Neuberger Berman, said about bitcoin, “I don’t see the purpose of it.” Eisman rose to fame through the Hollywood flick “The Big Short,” an adaptation of the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, authored by Michael Lewis. Actor Steve Carre...

Watch The Big Short online: Is it free on streaming services?   Here’s where to watch The Big Short online. Which streaming services have it available free? New audiences are flocking to seek it out. Looking back on the cinematic year in 2015, we often remember the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol, Recently, many have been compelled to remember The Big Short. Directed by Adam McKay ( Vice), this American biographical film is based on Michael Lewis’ 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the...

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Antiwar.com Blog Scott Horton Posted on Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own actions and then increased that threat by orders of magnitude by its wanton killings in one country after another in the name of ‘counter-terrorism.’ Once I started reading it, I couldn’t ...