Daniel Ellsberg (bio here), who leaked the Pentagon Papers (described here) to the press, died on June 16, 2023, at age 92. Ellsberg’s name will forever be synonymous with the term “whistleblower.” He may be unfamiliar to younger generations, but he was a hero to the Vietnam generation[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vietnam War’
April 26th, 2023 - 10:30 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Let ’em suffer
Senate Republicans “unexpectedly rejected efforts to advance a bipartisan bill that would direct the Veterans Affairs Department to carry out studies and clinical trials on the use of cannabis to treat veterans’ chronic pain and PTSD,” CNN reported on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (read st[...]
April 28th, 2020 - 4:33 pm § in America
Covid-19 death toll surpasses Vietnam War
Covid-19 toll (April 28, 2020): 58,313 U.S. Vietnam War deaths: 58,209 Meanwhile, as some impatient GOP governors begin to reopen their states, “Georgia is projected to see its number of daily Covid-19 deaths nearly double by early August,” according to a researcher cited by the CDC. The[...]