{"id":32111,"date":"2018-03-09T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32111"},"modified":"2018-03-09T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:06:24","slug":"to-stop-war-do-what-katharine-gun-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32111","title":{"rendered":"To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/03\/08\/to-stop-war-do-what-katharine-gun-did\/\">To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s advice to stop current and future wars is simple: do what Katharine Gun did, writes Norman Solomon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don\u2019t want people to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have information that bears on deception or illegality in pursuing wrongful policies or an aggressive war,\u201d he said in a statement released last week, \u201cdon\u2019t wait to put that out and think about it, consider acting in a timely way at whatever cost to yourself\u2026. Do what Katharine Gun did.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26203\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/observer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26203\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/observer.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/observer.jpg 259w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/observer-160x120.jpg 160w\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front page of <em>The Observer<\/em> from March 3, 2003<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know what Katharine Gun did, chalk that up to the media power of the war system.<\/p>\n<p>Ellsberg\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=767&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=21266\">video<\/a> statement went public as this month began, just before the 15th anniversary of when a British newspaper, the Observer, revealed a secret NSA memo \u2013 thanks to Katharine Gun. At the UK\u2019s intelligence agency GCHQ, about 100 people received the same email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2003\/mar\/02\/iraq.unitednations1\">memo<\/a> from the National Security Agency on the last day of January 2003, seven weeks before the invasion of Iraq got underway. Only Katharine Gun, at great personal risk, decided to leak the document.<\/p>\n<p>If more people had taken such risks in early 2003, the Iraq War might have been prevented. If more people were willing to take such risks in 2018, the current military slaughter in several nations, mainly funded by U.S. taxpayers, might be curtailed if not stopped. Blockage of information about past whistleblowing deprives the public of inspiring role models.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the kind of reality George Orwell was referring to when he wrote: \u201cWho controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s advice to stop current and future wars is simple: do what Katharine Gun did, writes Norman Solomon. Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don\u2019t want people to hear. \u201cIf you have information that bears on deception or illegality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17430,1511,19175,15099,577,862,10169],"class_list":["post-32111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-daniel-ellsberg","tag-gchq","tag-katharine-gun","tag-norman-solomon","tag-nsa","tag-war","tag-warfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32112,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions\/32112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}