Articles by Seymour M. Hersh
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What They Talk about When They Talk about War
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – How reporting, and the way the US government speaks about the wars it sponsors, has changed between the Bush and Biden administrations.
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The Pattern of Bibi’s Desperate Proposals
Seymour M. Hersh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – What a twenty-five-year-old memo by Daniel Ellsberg says about the past failures of Lyndon Johnson and the current horrors of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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A Unified Theory of Presidential Folly
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price.
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Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
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The Hippie Lieutenant
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – One soldier’s unsparing vision of life and combat in the Vietnam War
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US: Summer of the Hawks
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues.
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Harold Pinter Had It Right
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“After Oliver Cromwell had taken the town of Drogheda, he announced: ‘Kill all the women and rape all the men.’ His aide said: ‘Excuse me General. Isn’t it the other way around?’ A voice from the crowd called out: ‘Mr. Cromwell knows what he’s doing!’”
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
“How would President Biden react if China had established a base in Tijuana, Mexico, and met there with all the left-leaning governments of South America? That’s how Putin would be expected to react to the meeting earlier this month of all the NATO chiefs in Vilnius, close to the Russian border.”
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Gitmo’s Permanent Chains
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Now comes yet another little-noted UN Report on the continuing excesses and inhumanity at Guantánamo Bay, the post-9/11 US military prison that only two decades ago set the standard for war crimes.
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Fear and Loathing on Air Force One
Seymour M. Hersh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
15 Jul 2023 – A silly fear that signals the Democratic Party’s panic about the 2024 Presidential election: Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The duo will then sweep to a huge victory over Joe Biden and take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – As Ukraine begins a counter-offensive and Biden’s hawks look on, new rhetoric out of Russia points to a revival of the nuclear threat.
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe.
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – The false details in the CIA’s cover story.
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The Biden Administration continues to conceal its responsibility for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Does It Take a War?
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – There is an inevitable gap between what a president tells us about a war—even a proxy war—and the reality on the ground. It is true today as Joe Biden struggles for public support for the war in Ukraine, and it was true six decades ago as Jack Kennedy struggled to understand the war he chose to pursue in South Vietnam.
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My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – I think it best that I begin with the end. On March 6, I and dozens of Dan’s friends and fellow activists received a two-page notice that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and was refusing chemotherapy because the prognosis, even with chemo, was dire. He will be ninety-two in April.
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From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea
Seymour M. Hersh | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
22 Feb 2023 – The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations.
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Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
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History: The Massacre at My Lai, Vietnam
Seymour M. Hersh | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
14 Jan 1972 – A U.S. Army mass killing and the massacre’s coverup.
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Seymour M. Hersh - Die Welt,
3 Jul 2017
President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack.
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Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
29 Aug 2016
Exposé: Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian Rebels
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Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
28 Dec 2015
Seymour Hersh’s Latest Bombshell: U.S. Military Undermined Obama on Syria with Tacit Help to Assad
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Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
18 May 2015
The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.
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Seymour M. Hersh, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
8 Dec 2013 – The White House’s misrepresentation of what it knew about the attack, and when, was matched by its readiness to ignore intelligence that could undermine the narrative. Al-Nusra and its Islamist allies could end up as the only faction inside Syria with access to the ingredients that can create sarin, a strategic weapon that would be unlike any other in the war zone.
→ read full articleIran and the I.A.E.A.
Seymour M. Hersh – The New Yorker,
21 Nov 2011
“I’ve been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeatedly inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran.”
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Seymour M. Hersh – The New Yorker,
28 Mar 2011
It’s the smile. In photographs released by the German weekly Der Spiegel, an American soldier is looking directly at the camera with a wide grin. His hand is on the body of an Afghan whom he and his fellow soldiers appear to have just killed, allegedly for sport… There are also reports of suspected Taliban sympathizers we turn over to Afghan police and soldiers being tortured or worse. This will be a long haul; revenge in Afghan society does not have to come immediately. We could end up not knowing who hit us, or why, a decade or two from now.
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Seymour M. Hersh,
30 Mar 2009
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks between Israel and Syria. The two countries had been engaged for almost a year in negotiations through intermediaries in Istanbul. Many complicated […]
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