http://www.truthdig.com/daniel_ellsberg Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2010 2010-01-28T07:18:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_memory_of_howard_20100127/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_memory_of_howard_20100127/ daniel ellsberg, government, history, howard zinn, law, media, military, pentagon, war, zinn,

My friend Howard Zinn was, in my opinion, the best human being I’ve ever known. The best example of what a human can be, and can do with his life.

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The document in his hand was almost unthinkable: It projected roughly 600 million deaths in a U.S.-Soviet war. Here’s the first installment of a memoir of the nuclear era by Daniel Ellsberg, the man who revealed the Pentagon Papers.

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Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame writes that “official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.”

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The man who gave the world the Pentagon Papers delivers an impassioned plea to a new generation of activists to heed the lessons of Nixon and even Hitler when taking stock of the Bush administration’s nuclear ambitions.

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