Sy Hersh on Vietnam War, My Lai (video)

Seymour Hersh, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (democracynow.org, June 20, 2018); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sy Hersh: Media, how about covering US's War on Yemen and Trump policies rather than being distracted by tweets?

• The US is currently involved in 76 wars. - Sy Hersh, 6/20/18

Working with Gene McCarthy shaped my life

(June 20, 2018) Remembering the US military's massacre of My Lai: Sy Hersh on uncovering the untold horrors of U.S. mass murder in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos In 1970, U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on how the U.S. slaughtered more than 500 innocent Vietnamese women, children, and old men in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. The event became known as the My Lai Massacre. He speaks from NYC today. Video

• VIDEO: Full June 20th, 2018 episode (59 mins)

I, Sy: Reporter: A Memoir

“Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News,” Pres. Trump tweeted last week, in his latest attack on the nation’s free press. A week earlier, federal prosecutors revealed they had secretly captured years’ worth of phone and email data from journalist Ali Watkins, who broke several high-profile stories related to the Senate Intelligence Committee. A former top aide on the committee, James Wolfe, has been charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with the press. Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders recently dropped the U.S. to Number 45 in its annual ranking of press freedom. When the group first published its list in 2002, the U.S. came in at Number 17. Sy Hersh has a new book, Reporter: A Memoir, looking back on his more than half-century of scoops and digging up secrets. More

• I, Sy: Hersh's memoir of a life making the mighty sweat

Cheney is not the only Dick: Sy Hersh: I knew Richard Nixon BEAT his wife in 1974, but did not report the story

Sy Hersh: Former Sec'y of State and Nat'l Security Advisor Henry Kissinger must “count burned and maimed Cambodian and Vietnamese [Buddhist] babies” in his sleep

Seymour Hersh on torture at Abu Ghraib and secret U.S. assassination programs

• “Trump CREATES crises and preys on FEAR”: Rep. Jayapal on policy separating kids and parents

June 19, 2018: Caged children and terrified infants: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee describes “acts of indecency” [by Obama and now by Trump] at southern border

• June 19, 2018: As demonstrators demand Nicaraguan president’s resignation, government accuses opposition of coup
• June 18, 2018: Meet the migrant child detention center whistleblower speaking out against [racist] family separations
• Web Exclusive, June 19, 2018: Extended conversation with Nicaraguan government Minister Paul Oquist on escalating crisis
• June 18, 2018: Democratic lawmakers join family separation protests at detention centers from Texas to New Jersey
• June 18, 2018: With spotlight on migrant families separated at the border, will Democrats push to abolish ICE?