{"id":1101572,"date":"2023-06-23T05:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287123"},"modified":"2023-06-23T05:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:42:27","slug":"the-enemy-is-not-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/23\/the-enemy-is-not-a-human-being\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Enemy Is Not a Human Being\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s legacy that\u2019s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness. Ellsberg, who died on June 16 at age  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/23\/the-enemy-is-not-a-human-being\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/23\/the-enemy-is-not-a-human-being\/\">\u2018The Enemy Is Not a Human Being\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/23\/the-enemy-is-not-a-human-being\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s legacy that\u2019s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth ab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101573,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101572\/revisions\/1101573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}