#daniel elsberg

Alan Zendell, July 30, 2026 At first glance, today’s announcement that Saudi Arabia had formed a military coalition with fourteen other nations to protect shipping in the Red Sea sounded like it might be a good thing. Donald Trump had clearly gotten the United States into a quagmire that he has no idea how to climb out of, but at least the other Middle Eastern Countries were starting to take…

"In my office, an assistant of mine once put up little labels to show parts of the bookshelves and especially the drawers in my files. And my wife came down and saw “genocide,” “torture,” “massacre,” “terrorism,” you know, “bombing civilians,” and she said, how can I be married to somebody who has files like this in the office? And so this is California, this is Berkeley, so a bunch of her friends came down with burning sage and exorcised my office. But that has been my life since I started work at the RAND Corporation in 1958. I think about nuclear war not because I find it fascinating but because I want to prevent it, to make it unthinkable, because I care about the world that it would destroy." From an interview with Daniel Elsberg,"The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared" (and who once spoke at a conference I helped organize protesting nuclear missles and taught us about non-violent civil disobediance.)