October 3, 2006, Washington, D.C. – Former United States Senator and Presidential candidate Mike Gravel congratulated Daniel Ellsberg on the announcement that he is a recipient of the 2006 Right Livelihood Award. Established in 1980, the Right Livelihood Award has come to be known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament.

Senator Gravel said, “The American people and, indeed, the international community are in Daniel Ellsberg’s debt for his principled and courageous actions in blowing the whistle on the galactic lies and deceptions that characterized the American government’s public pronouncements on the Vietnam War.” The Senator continued, “Mr. Ellsberg not only helped to bring an end to the Vietnam War by arranging for the publication of the Pentagon Papers, but made it possible for others to leak information that would call national administrations to account when they try to hide their duplicitousness under the guise of national security and ‘Top Secret’ classifications just as the current administration has done now for five years.”

Senator Gravel arranged to receive the Pentagon Papers from Ben Bagdikian, an editor of the Washington Post who had been leaking part of the Papers from Daniel Ellsberg when the Justice Department moved to block further publication. The Senator read the Papers into the Senate record arguing he had the authority to do so as a Senator communicating with his constituents. He then facilitated their publication as The Senator Gravel Edition, The Pentagon Papers, Beacon Press, 1971. When the Nixon Administration went after the Senator and Beacon Press, Mike Gravel fought all the way to the Supreme Court in, Gravel v. U.S., resulting in a landmark Supreme Court decision (No. 71-1017-1026) relative to the Speech and Debate Clause (Article 1, Section 6) of the United States Constitution.

Washington, August 24, 2006 - Democratic Presidential candidate, former United States Senator Mike Gravel showed surprising strength in the most recent Zogby poll that rated candidate support based on their biographies in lieu of their names.

August 23, Washington, D.C. – Democratic Presidential candidate and former United States Senator Mike Gravel called on Democrats and Republicans alike in Congress to bring to a swift and immediate end to the American presence in Iraq.

"duty... honor... country." — Patriotism is more than just an act

Statement by Senator Mike Gravel On this Independence Day as on any, we remember and appreciate the sacrifices of America's soldiers -- men and women, from the minutemen onward, who risked and in some cases gave their lives for our freedom.

WASHINGTON, July 21 - Former United States Senator Mike Gravel, democratic candidate for president of the United States, on the eve of making his first campaign visit to Connecticut, said he was surprised to hear that President Clinton intended to campaign for incumbent senator Joe Lieberman.

TUCSON, Ariz., July 12 -- In a blistering attack against the Bush Administration's treatment of American war veterans, Democratic Presidential contender and former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel said at the annual Leadership Conference of Vietnam Veterans of America, "A society if judged by how its leaders treat its nation's young, its elderly and the guardians of its shores. On all counts the current administration has scandalously failed. After disingenuously leading the American people into war, not providing its soldiers with the body armor and other equipment they needed to fight it, the President and his cohorts now turn their back on the very veterans they so loudly praise as they sent them off to fight."

WASHINGTON, June 12 - On the eve of the "Take Back America Conference" in Washington, D.C. former United States Senator Mike Gravel, Democratic candidate for President of the United States, who, in 1971, staged a five month filibuster to end the draft, wrote an article published in "The Wayne Madsen Report.Com" (waynemadsendc@hotmail.com) entitled "HOW TO TAKE BACK AMERICA". The Senator said, "It is fine and right for Democrats and others to criticize, for example, the mismanagement by President Bush of his War on Iraq, but where were the filibusters in the face of obvious distortions and selective presentation of intelligence? Why did the Republican majorities and many of my fellow Democrats accept uncritically the intelligence fed to them while year after year fully funding the War?"

WASHINGTON, April 17 - Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel dramatically challenged America's dishonored and inert political and governmental leadership while announcing today that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

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Former United States senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska, 1969-1980) will announce his candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States.

An overview of the concept of a national initiative by Senator Mike Gravel, May 2005.

The central power of government in a democracy is lawmaking –– not voting. He who makes the rules controls the game. Laws determine if, when, how and which citizens can vote. Governments throughout history have been tools of oppression; they need not be. Ordinary American citizens can gain control of their government by becoming lawmakers, stemming government growth and turning it to public benefit.

This paper, written by Senator Mike Gravel in December 2004, is an attempt to give an unvarnished perspective of the past in hopes of instilling confidence in ourselves to make the changes necessary in the representative structure of our government.

A Paper by Senator Mike Gravel Presented to the Committee: "Global Governance and the Future of the United Nations" IIFPW Assembly, July 10-14, 2003, Asan, Korea

Paper by Senator Mike Gravel detailing the ineffectual political system and a solution proposing the adjunction of the people to the process of law making.

An article by Senator Mike Gravel accompanying his speech at the Vietnam Veterans of America Symposium on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers presented at The National Press Club, Washington, DC, June 5, 2001.

Response to The Internet and the Future of Democratic Governance. by Senator Mike Gravel. Responding to an article by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy and Rep. Robert Goodlatte.