US took out Nord Stream Pipeline: Live with famous journalist Seymour Hersh

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Corporate [mainstream] media smears brave reporter who revealed U.S. crime of blowing up Nord Stream 2 Pipeline then trying to blame Russia as a pretext for war

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Feb. 15, 2023.  The media’s purpose is to question dominant narratives and challenge authority, but too often today’s corporate media exists simply to regurgitate establishment talking points and run interference for powerful interests. Case in point: Business Insider writer Mia Jankowicz’s recent piece smearing Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s story revealing U.S. involvement in sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how pathetically bought the mainstream media is today. #TheJimmyDoreShow

American war crimes: pretext for US Proxy-War on Russia using Ukraine

(Exclusive TV interview Democracy Now!) Feb. 15, 2023, live with reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline":

When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to pretend Russia had bombed its own pipelines.

But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway.

Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims.

Hersh joins Democracy Now! for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some were wavering.

"The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the U.S. military's My Lai massacre, part of its international war crimes on Buddhist Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Hersh's reporting on the CIA's illegal homeland spying on antiwar activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community and, in 2004, he exposed more recent U.S. war crimes in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

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