Articles by Seymour M. Hersh
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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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How the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
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.
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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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