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Asheboro Courier Tribune
April 25, 2018
Democratic icon President John F. Kennedy, according to former New York Times reporter and New Yorker contributor Seymour Hersh, had venereal disease for decades, slept with a mobster's mistress, partied with hookers in the White House, etc. But Trump's “morally unfit”?! Stephanopoulos never asked ...
Chico Enterprise-Record
April 23, 2018
About chemical weapons in Syria I am agnostic. America says that Bashar Assad used them (although we are not sure exactly what); the Russians deny that he used any. Most journalists accept the American line, but some, including Seymour Hersh, do not. The trouble is that the Russians are not the only ...
Antiwar.com
April 14, 2018
On 23 December 2013 eminent journalist Seymour Hersh reported that, "In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that ...
Bradenton Herald
April 13, 2018
This is especially irresponsible given the history of at least one false flag attack — documented by the Pulitzer-prize winning legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh — by anti-government forces in Syria to falsely accuse the Syrian government. (See “Hersh's Big Scoop: Bad Intel Behind Trump's ...
KIRO Seattle
April 13, 2018
More than three decades after his visit, Seymour M. Hersh, who wrote the book "The Dark Side of Camelot" interviewed former Secret Service agent Larry Newman, who told of a local sheriff bringing two prostitutes to Kennedy's suite -- and warning that if they ever spoke of the incident they would go to a ...
Publishers Weekly
April 13, 2018
In Reporter (Knopf, June), investigative journalist Hersh recalls covering huge stories, from the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre to the present-day “war on terror.” What's the hardest story you ever had to report? The hardest emotionally was My Lai. I was dealing with people doing horrible things, killing ...
UNM Daily Lobo
April 12, 2018
Praise be to God that the ugly war in Syria seems to be nearing its end. The secular, Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has recently liberated the last major urban stronghold of the ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels in Eastern Ghouta. All that being said, it's more than a little suspect that mainstream ...
Smithsonian
April 9, 2018
“Concern, from the highest level of state officialdom on down, was that too much investigating or talking about the incident might make the Army move its base from Dugway,” reported Seymour Hersh. Although the Army never released a full, detailed report, they paid $376,685 to rancher Alvin Hatch, whose ...
StMaryNow.com
March 28, 2018
Fifty years ago this weekend, the focus of the Vietnam war dramatically changed. Many Americans were skeptical of why the war was necessary. There were scattered reports of American soldiers killing innocent civilians. But some would argue bad things can happen during wartime, and that's the price a ...
Payson Roundup
March 24, 2018
After reading John McCain's commentary (Roundup, Jan. 23) I have to say — what a bunch of crap. He talks of freedom of the press as though it exists in a controlled main stream media this owned by six corporations that follow a far-left globalist agenda of propaganda for more wars that only benefit the ...
Berkeley Daily Planet
March 21, 2018
The U.S. military attempted to cover-up what happened and would have succeeded but for the persistence of a young reporter, Seymour Hersh. The soldiers raped the women, mutilated their bodies and torched their houses One U.S. soldier said he was ordered to “kill anything that breathed.” During the ...
BBC News
March 15, 2018
The US journalist who broke the My Lai massacre story 50 years ago says the horror of what happened still makes him "teary". On March 16, 1968 US soldiers massacred more than 500 men, women and children in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, acting on a ...
BBC News
March 13, 2018
Investigative Journalist - Seymour Hersh. HARDtalk. Are journalists still able to tell the truth to power? On March 16th 1968 US soldiers committed a war crime during the Vietnam war. More than 500 men, women and children were systematically slaughtered in the village of May Lai. The terrible truth was ...
The Sun Chronicle
March 11, 2018
12, 1969: Story broken by Seymour Hersh in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Nov. 26, 1969: Lt. Gen. William Peers tasked with another Army investigation. March 14, 1970: Report by Peers completed. March 29, 1971: Calley found guilty of premeditated murder of 22 civilians, is sentenced to life. He serves 3 ...
Los Angeles Times
March 11, 2018
He was either a casualty of a sadistic LSD experiment by the U.S. government, or — as wily investigative journalist Seymour Hersh insists — of an outright execution. (The film reports out Hersh's incendiary thesis, and gives it credence.) Is the U.S. under President Trump becoming Russia, its terrified and ...
BBC News
March 8, 2018
Investigative Journalist - Seymour Hersh. HARDtalk. Are journalists still able to tell the truth to power? On March 16th 1968 US soldiers committed a war crime during the Vietnam war. More than 500 men, women and children were systematically slaughtered in the village of May Lai. The terrible truth was ...
Ashland Daily Tidings
March 6, 2018
The larger papers also had the time and budget for investigative pieces where resolute reporters were encouraged to “scoop” stories and sniff out scandal and corruption. I remember journalists like Jimmy Breslin, David Brinkley, Margaret Bourke-White, Seymour Hersh and Bill Moyers, just to name a few.
Little Village
March 5, 2018
The history of My Lai was first chronicled by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in a series of news articles forming the basis of his 1970 book My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and its Aftermath, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Hersh wrote, “When Army ...
The Intelligencer
March 5, 2018
This happened to Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh when two of his articles on the war in Syria in the last four years could not find a publisher in the U.S. — not even his “own,” The New Yorker. One of these articles, “Whose Sarin?” was finally published in the Dec. 19, 2013, issue of the London Review ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 1, 2018
Seymour Hersh, then a relentless freelance reporter, broke the story after tracking down and interviewing soldiers, including Calley, about the mass killing. Hersh received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting without ever leaving the United States. Calley, who is still living, publicly apologized in ...
Mintpress News
February 16, 2018
In late November 2001, according to Seymour M. Hersh, the Northern Alliance supported by US bombing raids took control of the hill town of Kunduz in Northern Afghanistan: “[Eight thousand or more men] had been trapped inside the city in the last days of the siege, roughly half of whom were Pakistanis.
Markets Insider
February 15, 2018
Previous winners include Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Christiane Amanpour, Peter Jennings, Norman Mailer, Diane Sawyer, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald, and many more luminaries of the Fourth Estate. This year, 485 submissions were considered in ...
The Intercept
February 4, 2018
His work inspired generations of journalists, but it's possible you've rarely encountered his writing, or have simply never heard of him. So here are three amazing things about him: First, Parry was one of the greatest American investigative reporters of the past 50 years, on par with Seymour Hersh. While he ...
AV Club
December 23, 2017
Everyone from family lawyers to fellow academics to journalist Seymour Hersh believe that Eric is a uniquely intelligent individual and it's a shame he contributed so little to the world beyond his constant, determined inquiries into his father's demise. As much as Wormwood is about Frank Olson, it also ...
Phoenix New Times
December 21, 2017
When Eric is talking (or the reporter Seymour Hersh or several other interviewees), Wormwood proves gripping and upsetting, even despairing. Here are people caught between the truth they're convinced of and what they can actually prove. In the final hours, Hersh, 79 at the time of filming, is especially ...
Antiwar.com (blog)
September 25, 2017
“The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence presents its INTEGRITY AWARD for 2017 to Seymour M. Hersh — Know all ye by these presents that Seymour M. Hersh is hereby honored with the traditional Sam Adams Corner-Brightener Candlestick Holder, in symbolic recognition of Mr. Hersh's ...
Antiwar.com (blog)
September 1, 2017
Journalist Seymour Hersh is to be honored with this year's Sam Adams Award for Integrity to be presented to him at the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award ceremony on the evening of Sept. 22 at American University. Sam Adams Associates, who selected Hersh last month from ...
Consortium News
September 1, 2017
An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity ... Journalist Seymour Hersh is to be honored with this year's Sam Adams Award for Integrity to be presented to him at the Sam Adams Associates for ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 7, 2017
“Russiagate” Narrative Crumbling With Seymour Hersh Phone Call, But Damage Already Done ... But it has been coming apart and a just-released recording of a Seymour Hersh phone call may be a fatal blow. by Whitney Webb. August 07th, 2017 ... Journalist Seymour Hersh in Italy, on April, 2009.
Antiwar.com
August 3, 2017
Journalist Seymour Hersh has given us good reason to believe what many have long suspected: that the “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee, which supposedly delivered the White House to Donald Trump, was an inside job. In a recorded phone conversation (here's a transcript) with Ed ...
Salon
June 30, 2017
The U.S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base, in retaliation for what the White House said was a deadly nerve agent attack carried out by the Syrian government, proved to be a rare moment of glory in Donald Trump's embattled presidency. The president basked in praise from usually critical Democrats ...
Salon
June 30, 2017
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who famously exposed the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, and more recently, the U.S. military's abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. This weekend, Hersh reported that the alleged chemical attack in Idlib, Syria, this March was not perpetrated by the ...
RealClearPolitics
June 27, 2017
Former Congressman Ron Paul discusses a new Seymour Hersh article out this week showing that the US knew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not responsible for the chemical attack in April, but President Trump decided to bomb anyway. Paul also singles out Rep. Adam Kinzinger for being a ...
OPB News
December 31, 1999
At first the Army tried to cover it up, but journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story in November of 1969. Now it's part of the curriculum at the military service academies. Air Force Maj. Logan Sisson teaches ethics at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He shows his students a picture he took with ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
From Australian academic Tim Anderson, who's claimed that Bashar al-Assad has not been involved in mass killings of civilians and was simply demonised by the imperial West to British and US journalists Robert Fisk and Seymour Hersh who have claimed the regime did not use chemical weapons in ...
The Ringer (blog)
December 31, 1999
In 2015, Seymour Hersh published “The Killing of Osama bin Laden” in the London Review of Books. The title couldn't be more straightforward. It is, on its face, a rigorous, uncannily meticulous account of the storied night raid, led by SEAL Team 6, on the Abbottabad compound in Pakistan, which ...
Rasmussen Reports
December 31, 1999
What is certain here is uncertainty: maybe it's true, maybe it's not. As legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh pointed out in 2014, the Defense Intelligence Agency believed that at least one major faction of the Syrian opposition, the al-Nusra Front, possessed significant manufacturing facilities and ...
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