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Matthew Hoh, Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Aghanistan, Vietnam Wars (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...

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Obama Is Right About Fox News

Thomas Frank | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

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Persecution fantasy is Fox News's lifeblood; give it the faintest whiff of the real thing and look out for a gale-force hissy fit -- as the Obama administration has discovered by now.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

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The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Whistleblowers: An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean

Ann Beeson | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

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Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean discuss the Pentagon Papers 30 years later, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, and whether public opinion matters.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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Journalism, Tech Crunch and Stolen Information

Tim Berry | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

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You don't have to appear in print to be a journalist; but you do have to have a code of conduct.

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Group Plans Lawsuit To Unveil CIA's Pentagon Papers

Wired.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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The CIA and other agencies are sitting on a trove of documentary evidence of actual and suspected wrongdoing under the Bush administration, and the El...

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The "Truthiness" Dilemma

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn't quite equate with directly ordering torture.

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Robert McNamara and Vietnam: A Basic Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living

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For anyone who needs a refresher course on America in Vietnam, here is a short reading list from among the thousands of books written about the war.

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Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

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The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV