Seymour Hersh has been a famed journalist since his work uncovering the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, both more than a few years ago.
A biography at Britannica notes he cofounded a newspaper, worked for United Press International, broke word on the South Vietnamese villagers killed by U.S. troops, joined the New York Times and reported on Watergate, documented the Soviet downing of a Korean Air Lines plane and Israel’s acquisition of nuclear arms.
He also charged in his reporting that Barack Obama had lied regarding details of the 2011 raid on the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound where Osama bin Laden, key organizer behind the 9/11 massacre of Americans, was killed.
“Among the allegations made by Hersh was that the Pakistani intelligence service had been holding bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that Pakistani officials knew about the raid before it happened,” the bio explained.
His latest is that, contrary to claims by Joe Biden, the U.S. actually did have a role in the bombings of Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines.
In fact, he reports that Biden ordered it done.
Now the Gateway Pundit is reporting he insists that American presidents must be held to account.
Officials, he explained, “saw the gas coming from Russia. Russia had pipelines supplying gas to Germany, very cheap, so much so that some of the German companies were reselling (the gas) for a profit.”
And worse, “Nord Stream was owned by Gazprom ‘controlled by oligarchs who are respectful of Putin. But 49% were (owned by) four different European companies, who were selling gas downstream all over Europe. So you had a tremendous source of cheap gas for Europe. Germany’s a real powerhouse, with Mercedes and BASF, the largest chemical company in the world. They soak up gas,'” the report explained.
“And so the fear was…” Hersh said, “Biden wants this war. Don’t ask me why presidents want war. I think it’s good for their ratings. But Biden was very big on … showing we can stand up to Russia … with Ukrainian soldiers. It’s good politically in America too.”
The gas in those pipelines, then, amounted to a “weapon” for Biden, he said.
“As long as Russia was selling that much gas, they thought Russia would weaponize it if there was a war.”
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Actually, Biden had threatened, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that if that happened, “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.”
Several others in his administration made similar threats, the report sad.
Hersh pointed out that that’s what the Biden comments were: a threat.
“People are asking me, ‘How did you find this story?’ A friend of mine put it this way: ‘You’re an expert at deconstructing the obvious.’ What else was it?” Hersh said in the report. “Particularly the German newspapers are very nasty to me. The New York Times and the Washington Post just ignore me.”
He continued, “You have to ask yourself, what is it with presidents? Why do they like war so much? (Maybe) because it’s politically useful. It’s colossally bad. Inexcusable.”
He explained, “It’s not even a hard story to understand. The president of the United States, the undersecretary of State both said they were gonna do it. And they did it.”
He added, “The New York Times has a lot of terrific reporters, but when it comes to this type of reporting, they underestimate the American people. We’re ready to accept the fact the president did this. You have to hold the president to account.”
The Pultizer-winning reporter’s original documentation came from a “source” with “direct knowledge” of the pipeline destruction.
“Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible,” Hersh said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Long the world’s most Christian nation, America today is being taken over by a new “official” national religion, one being imposed on the entire populace by every major societal institution, from government, media and big tech, to academia, entertainment and business.
This new state religion is Wokeism. “Going woke” conjures up visions of someone claiming to be acutely sensitive (“awake”) to “systemic social and political injustice.” And not just alleged bigotry against blacks, but toward every other “minority” as well, from LGBT folk – especially everything transgender and “nonbinary” – to “undocumented immigrants.” All of them, being VICTIMS, intrinsically more virtuous than the shameful oppressor class: primarily heterosexual white males.
This new “woke” consciousness has turned America upside-down – from the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, to tearing down of historic monuments, to demanding multi-million-dollar reparation payments for blacks, to appointing transgenders as top government officials, to rampant reverse discrimination in every area of life, to the U.S. military imposing mandatory “diversity training” and transgender pronoun use on all personnel, causing recruitment to disastrously plummet.
Yet there is hope. Being “saved” – which in Wokeism is called being “woke” – is largely a matter of worshipping victimhood by becoming an “ally” and “defender” of all the many victim classes, and a determined enemy of the straight white male oppressor class. Thus, “joining the righteous” as an ally – even if one is cursed to be a straight white male – opens the door mercifully for salvation, even to the most wretched.
That is the power of the religion of Wokeism. And it’s explored as never before in the February 2023 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you’ve ever wondered, for example, exactly how the most radical elements in American society are successfully pressuring the biggest corporations into adopting the most outrageous and immoral policies imaginable, even when doing so permanently damages and devalues the company, the stunning answers are in this issue of Whistleblower, titled “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION.”
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