Tag: Seymour Hersh

[I]f Hersh’s sources are telling the truth ... Ukraine is simply doomed.

Hersh’s data in a range of cases coincide with the official Russian position.

The U.S. essentially violates international law to retain hegemony.

Forcing ... ignoble acts into the light helped to bring an unjust war to a close. Hersh saved lives with his reporting.

The responsibility for attacking the Syrian base ultimately falls on Trump, but this back story negates the theory that it was the real estate tycoon’s own initiative, being the showman that he is.

Over the last 50 years, Hersh has built a network of informants, who deliver him a type of alternative reality to the one the White House presents. For the bin Laden story, he spoke to sources that he’s known since the seventies and eighties, he said. Can an experienced reporter like Seymour Hersh place too much belief in such an alternative reality? Can skepticism tip over into seeing conspiracy theories at every turn?

Washington has a long history of lies.

After an honorable 50-year career fighting the powers that be, the Pulitzer Prize winner fears no one.