Essential Reading From Sam Harris and Daniel Ellsberg

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Posted on Sep 16, 2006

Check out these two new (unrelated) reports by men who embody the Truthdig mission of drilling beneath the headlines:

Daniel Ellsberg: “Time to Drive Out the Bush Regime”—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 administrations nuclear ambitions.

Excerpt: “The nuclear wars in our future—that would be started by an act now being planned by this country—are Hitler-like to the hundredth degree.”

Sam Harris: “God’s Rottweiler Barks”—The bestselling author of The End of Faith gives a fiery response to Pope Benedict XVIs speech on the interplay between faith and reason.

Excerpt: It is ironic that a man who has just disparaged Islam as evil and inhuman before 250,000 onlookers and the world press is now talking about a genuine dialogue of cultures.

Left: courtesy WorldCantWait; right: courtesy Sam Harris

Left: Daniel Ellsberg; Right: Sam Harris