Gar Alperovitz

Meanwhile, we have leading academics in the country, including Maryland's own Gar Alperovitz, and Peter Kuznick from Bethesda, who turn that argument upside down, saying that the Japanese were ready to surrender. American textbooks generally are coming around to that view, but…. I'll give you ...

But his co-conspirator Gar Alperovitz, drawing on his earlier experience working for a member of Congress, persuaded Ellsberg that it would be better to approach subsequent papers one a time to keep the story in the news cycle. Ellsberg explains how he selected each paper, sometimes based on ...

And that is, Gar Alperovitz, a professor, has joined with other people in terms of forming something they call the Democracy Collaborative. And Richard Wolfe, who has a radio show, and is widely known for his ground-breaking work on progressive economic alternatives. He's got an organization called ...

A former Cambridge University fellow has come forward after 46 years to reveal his role in the most celebrated act of whistleblowing in American history. In June 1971 Gar Alperovitz outmanoeuvred the FBI and the Nixon administration to mastermind the covert distribution to 19 US newspapers of what ...

Historian Gar Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers—a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg told The ...

The New Yorker published a story yesterday revealing that Gar Alperovitz was a key member of the Lavender Hill Mob, the loose group of anti-war activists that helped to hide Daniel Ellsberg for three weeks as they released the Pentagon Papers to various news organizations. The article describes the first ...

And historian Gar Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak the Pentagon Papers to journalists. This is Alperovitz, speaking in a video produced by The New Yorker. Gar Alperovitz: “I helped arrange for the ...

Speaking publicly for the first time, a historian reveals the crucial role that he and a small band of others played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists. By Eric Lichtblau. January 29, 2018. In 1971, Gar Alperovitz played a vital, clandestine role in making the Pentagon Papers public. Photograph by ...

With both houses of Congress and most state governments captured by the Republican Party, those opposed to Trump and Trumpism are looking to cities. This strategic choice is increasingly being made not only by the Left, but by the careful center as well, a fact shown nowhere more clearly than in The ...

Culture » January 8, 2018. Centrist Think Tanks Won't Save Our Cities. Economic democracy must come from below. BY Gar Alperovitz · Share TweetReddit0 StumbleUpon0EmailPrint ...

“Ideas are important, but unless you can bring that vision down to earth, it's just pie-in-the-sky,” Gar Alperovitz said. This philosophy seems to guide much of his work. A distinguished historian, political economist, activist and writer, Alperovitz is well known for his critically acclaimed books on the atomic ...

Gar Alperovitz came to Oberlin as one of the speakers in The State of American Democracy: A National Conversation, a three-day, non-partisan discussion about the state of democracy in the U.S. The conference examines how the U.S. ended up in its current polarized state, and how we can bolster the ...

“Ideas are important, but unless you can bring that vision down to earth, it's just pie-in-the-sky,” Gar Alperovitz said. This philosophy seems to guide much of his work. A distinguished historian, political economist, activist and writer, Alperovitz is well known for his critically acclaimed books on the atomic ...

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis. By Gar Alperovitz, Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna. April 26, 2017. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Coal power plant. A coal-fired power plant in Holcomb, Kansas, in 2007.

Gar AlperovitzGar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution, is co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative and co-chair of its Next System Project. To submit a correction for our consideration, click here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here.