Journalism vs. Propaganda: Seymour Hersh’s Explosive New Report

What we read and see about the machinations of the global U.S. national security complex in the mainstream press is -- there is no nicer term for it -- fake news. The New York Times, Washington Post, network TV, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest are entwined with the U.S. war state. Their reporters are embedded at the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. And former CIA, FBI, NSC and DoD talking heads fill the airwaves, as if they're objective experts. In fact, forget the term "fake news" -- it's nothing more than propaganda. And we're fed it by the corporate media EVERY DAY.

So it's no surprise that the latest bombshell by legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has been totally ignored by the mainstream media. In a detailed report based on interviews with national security officials, Hersh revealed that last year's Nord Stream explosions were carried out by U.S. Navy divers, in close cooperation with CIA and Norway officials. The Nord Stream detonations destroyed three of the four underwater Baltic Sea pipelines that carried Russian natural gas to Germany and the rest of Western Europe. The pipelines, which were an economic bond between Russia and Europe, were targeted before Putin invaded Ukraine, but the invasion made Nord Stream an even bigger target. The explosions, realized the U.S. government, were also an act of war -- but President Biden and his national security team were willing to take the risk. And, of course, the New York Times and the rest of our supplicant media "watchdogs" went eagerly along with the official line -- the Russians probably blew up their own highly lucrative natural gas pipelines, they reported.

The White House has called Hersh's report "complete fiction." But, after reading his lengthy report, I believe Hersh.

Yes, Seymour Hersh is a flawed journalistic hero. He exposed the My Lai massacre and CIA wrongdoing in the 1970s. But I attacked him in my book Brothers for also falling for his CIA sources in his scurrilous book about President Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot.

But he got this one right. Seymour Hersh, who once worked for the Times, knows a lot more about the national security state than the newspaper of record ever prints.

President Biden and the Nord Stream explosion