Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview
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When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest 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 us 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 My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA 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 the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
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2:40 Biden::: "I promise you we'll be able to do that..." [Blow-up the pipeline] . Scholz' response::("We'll do it together") appearing at 12-30 into this KZhead::: (SCHULTERSCHLUSS IN WASHINGTON: Präsident Biden bringt Kanzler Scholz auf Linie | WELT Dokument)
yeah the US doesn't like it when the US public sees what our tax money does to our unworthy victims abroad.
How sad, But we all know what KZhead is in reality.....
Censorship by another name is still Censorship.
wow what highly offensive imagery that's been shown in the interview to protect my innocent eyes .
The fact that no major news paper publishers published this piece speaks volumes of the state of news in the US
The WORLD
It shows the Media is tightly controlled by a tiny group of Billionaires. And they black out ANY news that doesn't fit their agendas.
The news story did have weather balloons ....
Hersh has lost his credibility, the entire body of his book is theory and speculation, 1 source??? No, this is nothing more than an easy money maker. And he’s putting this country and the world at risk of a 3rd world war, to line his pockets.
Well hersch ignores and throws out all the evidence that contradicts him and his hypothesis, which is rather plentiful. It’s been criticised pretty openly
This world is in desperate need of honest journalism
This America needs GOD LIKE YEARS AGO GOD WILL BE JUDGI G AMERICA FOR THE EVILNESS
too bad this ain't it
..yet we get Seymour Hersh...
@@tellyboy17 thank goodness for Cy, all other’s are paid in full to mock any real journalism.
Free Julian Assange
Thank you for telling the truth to Americans when nobody else is!
There's plenty fighting the good fight, Seymour Hersh is one of them. Debate is needed and important to move forward
how is that the truth? its a theory.
Great work by Seymour Hersh We need to give out the Seymour Hersh award to the best investigative piece of journalism every year.
Correct.. 🙏
there is the I.F. Stone award
I was shocked the US who told the world they were gonna end the pipeline, and celebrated the pipeline being blown up, actually blew up the pipeline
I was shocked NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT until NOW.
I’m SHOCKED that we believe it totally without proof!
@@vallee7966 LOL, THERE ARE many smokes ... WHOLE EU NOt saying nothing to the public about it ... Not sayingg that it was RUSSIA... A RUSSIAN Pipeline... ETC>
Why shocked? Wasn't it obvious from the moment it happened? Wasn't it obvious that the U. S has been doing things like this for decades? Wasn't it obvious that the U. S. has been capable of doing things like this since 1776?
@@vallee7966 You don't have to believe it. I do. The evil American Empire does far worse.
He is not a reporter. He is an award winning investigative journalist of the highest calibre, well respected all over the world.
But he could be wrong
@@ar4122 but you could be stupid , but dogs could be black , but babies can be autistic , but but but ....to hell with your but
@@ar4122 He hasn't been wrong yet
@@ar4122 highly unlikely with America reputation.
@@ar4122 no my friend , because the norwegian started selling gas to germany, they knew what they were doing together with the US Navy. and Joe Biden is a terrorist criminal , as anyone else acting through terrorist actions such as the one against the pipeline!
Mr Hersh is a Patriot. I'm sure he is a painful reminder to those with dark agendas that light and truth ALWAYS come to light. Thank you Mr. Hersh, Mr. Snowden, Mr. Assange. And all others that risk their reputations to help us all have a full scope of events so that we might remain SOVREIGN.
ABSOLUTELY....🙏🙏🙏
No, this was terrible reporting based on literally no evidence. Think I’m wrong? Name any credible source he used or any hard evidence he referred to. You can’t!
@@sybo59 Come on, you KNOW that Hersh has to protect the anonymous Source or NO ONE would ever be willing to cooperate with him EVER. So stop bullshitting yourself and others with BOGUS Arguments, find some REAL ones if you have ANYTHING substantial in case you REALLY care about Truth at all.
@@sybo59 The fact that the US and their allies are throwing up numerous scenarios to explain what is the obvious just shows how guilty they are and how gullible you choose to be.
@@WildDisaster The U.S. hasn’t officially said anything, other than that the U.S. did not do it. The Europeans are the ones leading the investigation, and it is THEIR assessment that a pro-Ukrainian group might have been responsible. Yet people here are saying those very nations are balking at the idea… The truth is that there is zero evidence the U.S. did this. All you have is an emotional desire to believe it to be the case (which is itself quite revealing of the sinister place you’re coming from), nothing more.
That Amerika was behind the blow up - everybody knew - But that the Norwegen were part of It , made me sick. Greetings from Germany 😢 Thank You Seymour Hersh 🌹
Trump tree to warn your idiot leaders years ago about hitching your horse to the Russian wagon
What's the point of asking the government, when you've seen them lie in the past?
Your elected liars fill the circus. They are there to create hate and create turmoil around the world to fulfill their domestic need for votes.
The government is go to call continuity of government! That will end our freedoms! It will allow the united nations to step in . No more elections
Right. We should never ask politicians any question any time. We know they all lie. Journalists should be prosecutors: investigate, charge, indict and convict
we blew it up, and Russia should declare war on us....... we are such assholes..... and Biden should be impeached. along with Price....
Maybe to motivate people to run proper candidates in Primaries instead of accepting whatever catch of the day these financial services parties run?
A 10-year-old child knew this in September thankyou for doing the work to prove it
You are soooo right! 10 year old ones knew this from the beginning on. And truthfully: How dumb are the politics of the USA that they can think that all world is so dumb that they wouldn't know who are the evil-doers for mankind and our planet!!!
Real journalism? No source, no evidence. That's not real journalism my friend.
@@scotfilm "A 10-year-old child knew this in September." No source no proof and no Sy Hersh required. Just a bit of brain. Btw of course all the proof and all the evidence is there. Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have all the proof and evidence there is.They are not telling you, so you are left with circumstantial evidence and many a criminal has been put away for good, based on circumstantial evidence. All you need to show is intent, motive and means. If you wan to wait for the gold-embossed card that states "yes, we did it" you can wait for eternity. I don't have that much time and for me the case was closed the day the attack happened.
Hersh is a national treasure!
Thank you so much Mr.Hersh for your wonderful journalistic work
What's really frustrating were the amount of people in America who strongly argued that Russia took out its own pipeline when it made no logical sense. The mental gymnastics displayed was even crazier than the WMD claims in Iraq. People always let their emotions cloud their judgement no matter the generation or the information we have access to.
Yeah it makes no sense that Russia, a country that bombed its own territory as a false flag pretence to invade Chechnya, would ever do another false flag attack on itself... Russia also did a bunch of false flag attacks leading up to their invasion of Ukraine, and false flag attacks leading up to their invasion of Georgia. Oh, and false flag attacks to justify their chemical bombing runs in Syria.
Ha ha The funnier thing is Brandon said he was gonna blow it up. Then when he did, the press called it a mysterious leak in the pipeline.
This comes to show most mainstream Americans are not 2 sophisticated or very well educated, that's why they believe the lies their media reports to them
Americans don't think for themselves, they just believe it
True, the level of deception and propaganda is such that it leaves me baffled, especially because of how people reason absolutely nothing. Anything said against Russia is valid regardless of common sense and logic.
This man is a hero and should be treated as such.
I usually agree with Amy and the rest of the pinkos at DN about 1 in 100 times. . This is one of those times.
Indeed
Yes, he is, but because of the stories he's published in the past and not because of this idiotic nonsense.
@@Kalumbatsch Lol. You are something else...
God bless Seymour Hersh and his family. I'm Christian, he's Jewish, he's a brother in truth.
Amazing interview! High quality output from Seymour Hersh. This is excellent work by Democracy Now! Well done!
This is the best report wrapped in a speech by Seymour Hersh. My deepest respect. I'm born 19 years after him. But he is not an old man with an aging spirit, I regret that I ever allowed myself to think along that line. This man is excellent! Nevertheless - if all that is really true - I'm not even asking for the source. America has indeed destroyed a pipeline to Europe, motivated by two major arguments: 1. the fear that Germany might giver a green light to Russia to open it again and 2. To be in control of gas deliveries to Europe - in effect to make money and cancel the cheap gas coming from Russia. That is mind blowing! Divers down 260 feet, mines placed (1 mile apart), divers up, decompression chamber, remote ignition of all mines. Make a run for it. I wonder now what is the future of NATO and can that lead to nuclear war? I am very concerned it may. Biden is now exactly in the position the he accused the Russians of. He is now in control of "weaponizing" natural gas. He has destroyed a vital pipeline for Germany and - if true - will soon offer American gas to Germany at a higher price than the Russians. It is mind blowing!
This man is 85 years old? Dam! Hes the youngest,sharpest most lucid energetic 85 year old ive ever seen. I hope if I get to that age I can be as him. Wonder what his secret is? Good diet? Intellectual vigorous pursuits? Not selling out? Amazing!
He is doing the right things, saying truth as it is, probably this is the reason.
Passion for truth and love for humanity dignity!
Age is a number, for some they are sharp as a tack at 90, others have mentally checked out by 80. What's strange is that many people are oblivous to recognizing this.
@@arethereanyuniquehandles I know. Look at the president. Smartest thing he can say is "Think about what you think about!"
Well, if he gets life sentence for same, it wouldn't be long..
85 years old and does his best work yet. Outstanding individual.
Worst... Earlier work 50 years ago actually had evidence.
@@jeremytine Friend, people have been given the death sentence on less circumstantial evidence than the small mountain of it piling up at Americas door. That, and he has confirmed this is only the start of his report on the matter. All he has done, is confirmed in granular detail, what most already suspected. But for America or more specifically the Biden administration, there should be hell to pay if there were any justice on this earth.
@@Nine-Signs no they haven't. there is literally no evidence outside an anonymous source. Literally none. In fact several of his suppositions have been contradicted
Ok, they didn’t leave a picture of Biden pointing at the destruction with a caption that says, “ I did this!” But there is a speech he gave but I know you will say he meant something else. “We will stop the nordstream 2 pipeline.” A reporter asks how since it is under Germany’s control. A wink and a smirk, “We have a way, trust me.” Then you quote the same mantra from the 2020 election. “ Not one shred of evidence of voter fraud has been found.” Is that all it takes to deceive you? Do you recall when Trump stopped the construction on Nord 2? One of Biden’s first executive orders was to stop Keystone. Then he approved Nord 2. Then 2 years later he. BLOWS IT UP? When the bombs begin “bursting in air” I hope you don’t seek solace that it’s just “Russian disinformation” because just like me, you don’t have a ticket to the shelter that has movie theaters and bowling alleys.
Another quote from the Biden legacy, “We have assembled the best voter fraud team that has ever been put together. I can’t possibly lose this election.” 5 days before MSM created a new word to explain that gaffe. It’s replacing the word from long ago…bulls**t
First time I get to hear an American journalist reporting in an unbiased manner
Unbiased = tells me what I want to hear.
Thank you Mr. Hersh for speaking up. We in Europe have brainwashed politicians who believe in the benevolent of Us. But we have been betrayed! Greetings from Switzerland!
How has Switzerland been betrayed? You guys hoarded Nazi gold for them, and hide assets for the worst people on earth now, don’t act like your country cares about anything other than money.
To call the attack on Nord Stream 2 an act of sabotage is to underestimate the seriousness of what could be called an act of war.
It's just an act of war.
It was an act of war when they released a chemical agent in Salisbury. It was a state sponsored murder of litvinenko. They’re all at it. Cambridge analytica was an act of war.
Lets be honest ...of what can only be called an act of war.
@@johnparker5337 against a NATO country
The US is a terrorist state!
He is 87 years old , He looks great. Love this man, he serves humanity. Thanks Seymorgh from california.
It's the spirit that matters!
85 yo right now he will be 86 yo on April 8, 2023 !
And a prime spotlight on the fact that Biden is demented; his sluggish speech and cognition is not simply a normal factor of his age.
85... this is what engaging your mind daily will do for you
@@MiroBG359 Yeah,right !
The reaction of Ned Price was....priceless. He does a really bad job of lying.
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I am honestly shocked the Democracy Now is doing an objective interview on this. Hats off. One step to faith being restored
I am agreed
@@sofiasmith6757 'I agree'
Why are you shocked about Democracy doing an objective interview? This is what they do.
@@dianemitchell1717 no i am sorry.Democracy now has been going bias with the government agenda.
@@dianemitchell1717 they are not always objective Observe more and you will see they mix true and fake news too Just less fake news than MSM
Thanks for telling the world what we already suspected
Yes, what we already knew . We are not as stupid as they think , and the numbers of people becoming aware are growing 👍
@j..; As the #'s of aware grow, Those #'s left behind seemingly dig further in too their respective foxhole's ? As if a balance of sorts is necessary in our abilities too discern that deemed as; good or bad, right or wrong, pleasure or pain, And that of, Heaven or Hell ! The choices of this or that, and nothing in-between, is lucidity in exile. The answers are out there, We just haven't formed the right question's yet !
What we knew...
Exactly what I thought.
@@jamtmann but why does it matter if we’re aware? Are we gonna storm the Capitol and arrest these crooks?
Thank you for this Seymour & DN 🙏🏽 we need the resurgence of real journalism!
Full of integrity.. Much respect.
Glory to Seymour Hersh for his Honesty and Courage !!!
He is a lying Kremlin stooge. How is that noble?
@@williamhancock8065 you realize how dumb this makes you sound.
@@williamhancock8065 More noble than you shill boi!
@@williamhancock8065How telling truth make him Putin's stooge? He is patriot of his country as try to defend what is was about at the beginning
As a french citizen, I really want to thank you about that. There's absolutely no media down here talking about that, even if our future depends on it.
Well, there is practically no news here in USA either. That is what makes This report remarkable.
The French media (especially the public media France Inter, France Info) has been awful. Utterly awful.
The same in Germany! Olaf Scholz stood next to Biden, grinning stupidly. That's not normal!
I'm proud of you guys! The French are out in the streets by the millions over pensions being stolen.... Americans sit on their thumbs as their pensions and retirements are being demolished! while our "so called president" vows to send billions more to Ukrainian to cover the Ukrainians pensions!!!! It does not help when only a few of us protest, get targets on our backs and are abused by the irs ! When the hell are Americans going to stand up against this treason!!!???
@@lisacarden1309 yep, you’re right, at least we’re still fighting for our rights. I hope for you that this « French tradition »for strikes become more international 😉
The world of journalism needs to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine"
These are the most dangerous people in the world right now, holding that same world hostage by its blunt aggression and lies. Hearing Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland accuse another regime of the exact same thing they themselves are doing, that is, by accusing the enemy of the same thing they themselves are doing, right in the face of the German chancellor who willingly takes it, sends chills down my spine.
Corleone made an offer he couldn't reject.
you know Germany is still an occupied nation with over 35,000 US troops garrisoned there
@@dogstar8871 since 1945. Why do the Germans allow this, why does Japan and Italy allow this? It is wrong. The US is not an honorable nation, they spies out their allies and friends.
Now it really isn’t hard to understand how they demonized and cheated President Trump out of not only his first term but his second. There isn’t any lie to big or awful for them to tell. They had a big, bad agenda they just couldn’t let Trump interfere with.
That German chacellor is an idiot as those who helped him to hold that possition. At the end, for the US to do this and to get away with it, you need to have an even “dumbest” country than the US to accept this sabotage on their own pipelines; stay absolutely quite about it while their own population are paying between three to four times the price before the war started; companies shutting down (aluminum smelters, i.e.) and planning to cross the ocean to start over in the US; and still having idiots in that country of dummies saying “we have to stand up for Ukraine” instead of pushing US bases out of their country, getting out of NATO and moving on towards the most worthy economical position for them, that is getting along with Russia and supplying themselves again with the cheap gas they need. Yes, that country of dummies is Germany. Yes, yes, I know, they can build nice cars. That’s a skill and not collective intelligence which is it already obvious they lack (three times in around 100 hundred years they have demonstrated Germany is not only a country of “superior human beings” but just the opposite… there’s no other country in the world with more dopes per square mile).
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” - Henry Kissinger
Varma. If we want to see beyond the hills, we must rise higher. Putin's sale of oil and gas to Europe helps his murderous rampage on Ukraine. He will not stop. After Ukraine, it will be Latvia, or Estonia, or Lithuania, or Moldova, or Hungary. Putin weaponizes energy. Putin continually targets Ukraine's energy grid. Every European I know understands this (except for a few self-amazed leftist backpackers from Italy and Spain). Slava Ukraine!
meanwhile, kissinger is a chinese shill these days
„America does not have friends! It only has interests.“
Kissinger quotes does not make this any believable though
Kissinger the mentor to klaus schwab ironically
WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED
Unbelievable - this is lunacy Everyone involved has to be held accountable.
Thank you for inviting Seymour Hersh and your willingness to report on this important issue. I live in France and there is radio silence on this subject here, except from a few alternative channels. And I surely can tell you that Europe is suffering the consequences from their -once- ally...
There is also silence here in UK. Even, BBC doesn't inform about Seymour Hersh report.
We just had one of the worst chemical spills in our country ever in Ohio...media is totally silent.
Vow, silence signifies their complicity
Because it's garbage. A single anonymous source with a bullshit story that makes absolutely no sense.
There is total radio silence here in ”non-allined Sweden too and we don’t have a debate on the insanity to join Nato. Zilch!!!
Mr Hersh,thank you very much for your courage and investigative reporting. We truly miss people today who pursue the truth rather than repeat lies. There is no such thing as a free press in the US today .
And what's wrong with the US taking out a murders money. Russians are raping and murdering Ukrainians right now and gas is their number one profit maker. By criticizing the US, on this issue, you support Russian rape and murder against my brothers and sisters. Why do you think Ukrainians deserve to be raped and murdered by Russians? And wrong for the US to cut them off where they can? You people are monsters.
Ein Riesen Skandal, eine Kriegserklärung durch die USA! Raus aus der NATO, und endlich unabhängig werden..
Biden is American Osama Bin Laden, but how to bring him to justice as he is surrounded with American military? Starting war against the terrorist state as it was before with Fascist Germany is not feasible. On the other hand Senate and other legislations are not going to do anything to remove that criminal from power. Only American military can remove this shame from the country if they remove by force the guy who has brought that shame on the country.
@@Metal0sopher And the US and the Ukrainians don''t rape and murder ? How asinine and simpleminded can one be. The Russians eat the dead and the Americans can only do good . This is truly an example of being brain dead.
@@cynthiademario7331 How do you know this as a fact ??? Do you read or follow Russian media? THe difference here is that you actually believe the BS that you read and the Russian read between the lines . Also they are far more honest in their reporting of the Ukraine conflict. When you begin to believe your own rubbish you are in deep ... Who in the US MSM is writing about Seymour Hersh's revelation of the US destruction of the NS pipeline ? Nada. No one. Where in the MSM do you see the west admit to the shelling of the ZPP nuclear powerplant ,where in the west did you see admission of the Bucha massacre hoax, where in the west do see the admission of Amnesty international field personnel to the fact that Ukraine military deliberately positionned munitions,tanks, artillery near civilian hospitals,shopping centers,schools. You have been totally brainbleached .
Seymour Hersh is a phenomenon of a journalist. Long live, Sy!
Democracy today, featuring Seymour M. Hersh who by the way resembles Dominic Dunne, writer. From the Pulitzer prize and preeminent investigative journalist of our time-an intensely personal, revelatory memoir of a matchless career that has encompassed the most important stories of the last half century. Of course, this man is phenomenal, he speaks the truth!!!
In a time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary act...
If Deceit is Universal, doesn't that make this story Deceit?
@bekboto1236 And you've fallen for the silly distraction. Well done, you.
True, but this is vague enough for radically wrong people to believe they’re the revolutionary truth tellers. Be more specific.
How do you know it's true?
What ultimately rankles US Political Indentured Servants on Pennsylvania Ave is that Russia isn't complying with America’s demands and bullying.
Thank you Mr. Hersh for enlightening us with the truth on what's behind all this mess in Europe.
Mr Hersh has been a hero of truth for a half century. He knows how to build a story. Keep going.
Respect for Democracy Now for allowing Hersch to speak directly to the public. I wish you would speak out more often and forcefully about Julian Assange's imprisonment.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
How are they different than Fox News giving election deniers a friendly platform to spread disinformation? They really aren't. One guy did try to fact check this bullshit but not very vigorously. Giving a platform to liars and kooks to spread their lies is not noble. This is not journalism, it is propaganda. How can you call yourself Democracy Now when you put on Putin admirers? Putin is a brutal repressive dictator that is the antithesis of democracy. Russia is corrupt, opaque, aggressive and repressive and completely lacking the rule of law. I lived in Russia for four years and have been greatly saddened by its transition from mere authoritarianism to totalitarianism. Russians can be sent to prison for fifteen years for making statements that are demonstrably true. And you have guys like Navalny rotting in prison on fabricated charges. Hersh is no hero. At best he is a useful idiot. At worst he is paid to spread Russian disinformation in the West. Either way he is full of shit. Treat him as such.
@@williamhancock8065 is it not possible to see that Putin is a totalitarian murderer and US leadership has corruption as well? It isn't so simple as "good guys vs. bad guys", only fairy tales work that way.
@@williamhancock8065 Real journalism is about getting to the truth without any agenda. It’s sad that this has been forgotten. Instead, with so many people the issue has become not whether something is true or not but whether it supports my position. Fact checkers are essential of course but don’t forget to fact check those who label themselves as debunkers or fact checkers.
They have, maybe listen more regularly?
This is the first time I have watched a Democracy Now piece in 6 years. It was worthwhile watching. Sy Hersh is still an incredible journalist.
They used to report this kind of thing all the time but then came Obama and they sold out to the power centers in DC. Oh well.
I agree. Finally great interview. More of this please.
Democracy Now has been just another US propaganda outlet for the last 6 years
@J S I know! I normally never watch it even though it has been actively pushed into suggested videos for me. Hence my surprise they invited Seymour
Thank you Amy and Juan.
That camera shake every time he replied was hilarious, made it look way more intense and chaotic
Also... You know you could've just let him talk right? He's THE man, no disrespect but I think what he says is very important
Everyone in Europe has known this to be true since this happened.
even the Germans, if they wanted to know...
And therefore you remain silent, great way to become a colonialist slave.
NO, not True. But it was pretty clear, that it was probably the US... Like EU not doing anything and react strange, Russia blowing up their own pipeline, USA and WESTern powers acting like they had no idea who it was ... Blaming Russia for destroying their own pipelin,etc.
I certainly doubt the Germans believe what Hersh wrote, or if they do, then they have yet to grasp what it means.
@@dvegule920 I'm one German who knew.
I think what is more disconcerting about this is the fact they lie, they know they will be called out and they just don't care.
Oh they care believe me, that's what all the balloons and UFOs are for. To create distractions ...
With the majority of the media on the government's side, they have little to fear from a tiny minority of principled journalists. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
Their attitude is not surprising. You see, the folks who make such decisions are faceless people who are cryptically referred to as Deep State. They have their associates on both sides of the aisle. Elections and voters be damned, they'll do what they feel is in their interest - not necessarily national interest.
No one can make the US government pay a price. Of course, Russia could use nukes... but they could only "play that card" one time.
What about the military who's iching for a war!!! can we trust the generals not to " fake" an attack on domestic soil to get their war started???? I remember this happened in Russia!!
💪🏼 Mr.Hersh💪🏼
ACCOUNTABILITY NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Seymour
I admire the integrity and the courage of the man. Thank you, Mr. Hersh!
He's a Kremlin stooge. All he has said is some combination of his own anti-American delusion and sponsored Kremlin disinformation. The far Right extremists and the far Left extremists are united in their love of Putin's repressive dictatorship. The sane people see Putin for what he is, a genocidal sociopath.
@@williamhancock8065 Bots like you trying to smear him just adds to my respect to him.
Certainly something missing from media these days that Seymour Hersh is. Common sense and practical.
Their silence and lacking desire to investigate=guilty
Thank you Mr. Hersh for your bravery and integrity. I wish more reporters actually reported on the news and not lied to us.
She is amazing. No spike heels and no baby talk.
I have ingested a large quantity of McDonald’s McFlurrys and now I must excuse myself as I need to use the bathroom. Thank you. - me
What integrity, so much patent nonsense in this interview one doesn't know where to start.
The BBC anyone? Nah, didn't think so....
The suggestion that the US Navy would have "divers jump overboard and plant C-4 explosives" in over 200ft of highly surveilled water is beyond ludicrous. Any upper tier NATO Navy would be considerably more likely to use the safer, more covert capabilities of autonomous submersible drones to pull off an operation of that magnitude.
Anyone with a lick of sense knew that the US/CIA did it. Hersh is just helping us fill in the gaps of how the crime was carried-out.
Schlumberger Begins
Without supporting facts, we can only surmise that the U.S. probably destroyed the privately owned pipeline. Respected journalist Seymour Harsh, among the few today interested in real journalism, has provided the necessary supporting evidence of the Biden attack on affordable energy.
Belize central america I'm from and i agree totally !!
Filling in the gaps!? 33 minutes and not a shred of any evidence just only hyperbole.
ADD MOSSAD
Seymour you’re a gentleman and a scholar!
Seymour Hersh is a true journalist. We need more like him. I thank him for all his reporting. He rules.
This is why it’s so important to protect free speech and not allow government to censor whatever they deem “misinformation”
Free speech is already forbidden in french mainstream media, and the french people have to look somewhere else for honest information. Thank you Mr Hersh to restore the truth.
its fake 🤣
@Christopher Bradley its fake
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@@DJChrisBradley "... always treat state messaging with the utmost skepticism." Exactly! We don't want, and cannot allow, the kind of state-run media [covert or plainly out in the open] like what they have in China (or even in Canada--as all the Canadian MSM are state-funded, right?!)
Finally, this channel is doing their job
I stopped listening to them in the last few years, but this episode is great.
@@ninemimesleft agreed
I'd given up frankly. First time back to DN in at least 10 years
@@woodforthetrees3496 conservatives search out stories from a variety of news outlets. This is the only KZhead video discussing the explosion openly and probably more honest than corporate media. And Mr. Hersh even mentions such further in the video. I'll look for a timestamp for you.
@@woodforthetrees3496 12:20
Seymour Herch est un immense reporter. A suivre ++++ Avons nous quelques MR Herch en France??😊
Knowledge is freedom, ignorance is slavery and death , make your choice.
Just as I’m completely giving up on ever finding real investigative journalism anymore, here is Seymour Hersch still fighting the good fight. WOW spectacular journalism here.
lol
Read Sy Hirsch reported on Seth Rich. He was murdered by the DNC & Now FBI FOIA's PROVE IT.
Glenn Greenwald.
@ Jane Walsh Exactly 💯.
@@kelliintexas3575 oh my
A true journalist. Very rare these days. Good work.
No it's not, Jimmy Dore, Russell Brand,Timcast,Glenn Greenwald,Matt taiebe, But if you still have Trump Derangement syndrome you'll never get it!!
Do yourself a favor- read real journalists debunking Hersh’s made up blog post. No wonder NYT didn’t accept this piece of junk for publication.
Real journalism? No source, no evidence. That's not real journalism my friend.
@@scotfilmHow many times are you going to paste that shnit, robo- scammer?
@scotfilm he only has a Pulitzer prize for Journalism. No big deal, right? Biden: we are going to blow it up. You: there's no way biden did it.
Only big Thanks on this channel and video goes to respected Seymour Hersh.
Mr. Hersh is one of the deserving Pulitzer winners.
THANK YOU MR SEYMOUR HERSH FOR YOUR INTEGRITY AND FOR BEING BRAVE ENOUGH TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT !
May God bless Mr Seymour Hersh. His courage and integrity as a journalist and a human being will always be remembered by future generations. He is an inspiration. We are grateful to him.
The Poseidon plane isn´t operative even up to this day, and Russia accuses the UK, so even they don´t give credibility to Hersh, who hasn´t provided a single piece of evidence
He's a useful idiot spreading disinformation for the Kremlin. He has no evidence for any of this. Don't go down this crackpot's rabbit hole like some Q-Anon imbecile.
The suggestion that the US Navy would have "divers jump overboard and plant C-4 explosives" in over 200ft of highly surveilled water is beyond ludicrous. Any upper tier NATO Navy would be considerably more likely to use the safer, more covert capabilities of autonomous submersible drones to pull off an operation of that magnitude.
@@ricowingfield4992 you know nothing about the seals.
@@preposterous23 I’m former Navy, I can tell this, they wouldn’t use SEALs they would use drones
Of course they blew it up. It was as plain as day from zero hour. The fact that there was so little interest from the mockingbird press just proves how much trouble we’re in. Hersch is a hero
We knew the US did it. They said they would so why blame someone else? It's all a bunch of BS, that's why. We can't believe or trust our own government.
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Absolutely bullshit. And nothing in Hersch explanation makes sence from a technical perspective.
What the US public does with this truthful information, will be a story for another day
Seymour is spot on the whole story. It’s so funny that some media is expecting him to expose his sources. Investigative journalist won’t work like that. They will keep their sources confidential at any cost. It’s a basic fact of journalism
Prosperity to Abyssinia ❤
sure, but to publicly make such accusations based on hearsay?
@@taylorhickman84 what else is he supposed to do? He can't exactly reveal his anonyamous source, that would be stupid. I agree that much of what Hersh is claiming seems more like speculation, since we don't know who or what his source is. But his claims are much more reasonable than what the media is saying, as well as what the US government is saying. He has also exposed the US goverment several times now so he is both credible and experienced.
@@taylorhickman84 it's not heresay from a random dude
Thank you all! ❤❤❤
Hersh is an American treasure
An American embarrassment
@@scotfilm Hersh is definitely embarrassing American government
@@scotfilmPoliticians in D.C. are American embarrassment.
@@scotfilm I think you have confused Biden with Hersh, must be the vaxxx giving you brain fog ...
@scotfilm how many Pultitzer Prizes for Journalism do you own? If you voted for biden, you should be embarrassed.
Kudos to Democracy Now for covering a story the mainstream media is afraid to cover.
That's right. I am from Russia, and we have been wondering all these years why thousands of Russians are being killed in Ukraine. In Donetsk, there is a whole alley of the names of children killed by the Ukrainian Nazis (called "Alley of Angels"). And everyone laughed in our face, and said that we were lying about the genocide. And for 8 years we believed that it was possible to stop the killing of Russians in Ukraine peacefully. And we wondered why everyone was silent about it. I wonder if those who laughed at us, are they laughing now? Journalists, who concealed the mass killings of Russians in Ukraine, are also to blame for this (in Odessa alone, on May 2, 2014, 100 unarmed Russians were burned alive, and no one was even convicted for this).
Yes congrats to them for pushing fox news talking points
They aren't afraid TO cover it. They are afraid that it will be UNcovered. This is Military Industrial Complex 101. Rash decisions based purely on self interest. It's disgusting, and against international law. SMFH. What a disgrace.
@@alexcaminiti so you rather children be bombed in Ukraine? I'm for this going public if true, but still don't think this a bomb shell. We are at war with Russia btw
I agree with this but note that Hersch knows he’s out on a limb about several conjectures and says so in the interview. Some cogs fit and others don’t. People who criticize Zelenskyy for instance never had the pleasure of growing up in a social cluster of mostly Ukrainians descended of several class systems pre-1917. This is a revenge war as much as an actual Ukrainian identity with Liberal democracy which has been kept alive since Stalin stalked the earth. He’s talking to the wind and a bunch of dead Scot’s and Irish who have only raised their middle finger to him. And it’s no wonder then that his reasoning bangs him up to the edge of fascism.
Well done Seymour on calling out those who "shoot themselves in the foot" by bragging about their nasties. I have long relied solely on the perpertratos' own bragging as source of information. Any other reporting can be dubious.
Thanks Democracy Now for giving t Mr. Hresh a chance to tell Americans the truth.
I honestly didn't know ACTUAL honest journalism still existed
lol
Why is this honest? Because it fits some narrative of your? Navy does t need to drop divers 200ft to plant explosives when they have submersibles not having to endanger a sailor’s life.
This guy is a first-class nut. He says the war is almost over and it's up to Zelenskyy as to how many of his own people he wants to kill. Russia invaded Ukraine. There's no way to spin that. According to Seymour ,Ukraine should just surrender. And somehow it's the fault of the West that Putin invaded and is a dictator. How this is the Fault of Zelenskyy I do not know. Is this story true? Maybe. Go hear or read his account of the killing of Osama bin Laden and then you tell me if he's playing with a full deck.
And by the way he did not expose Abu ghraib, CBS news did. So I have no idea where she got that.
@@paperandmedals8316 - It's hard to be totally ridiculous. Congratulations you got it. LOL 🙂
Thank you for bringing Seymour on. We need more brave men like him to bring the darkness to light.
these journalist in this interview are full of sh*t. I don't know him, but he is absolutely bragging and possibly lying about the story. Maybe the story is for like 10% true and he is connecting the dots because he has someone that see things. Hahahaha. Hes trying to find credibility see 13:05, talks about biden doing good stuff, to make him feel genuine and then talk about his credibility 13:19 for itself within his conversation. Brag about alot of stuff, like secrets and bla bla bla. This is no journalist. ' He got alot of access to people who see things' 13:13 Hahahahahaha are you fn serious. This is a journalist? 😂😂😂😂😂. Why hes trying to find credibility in alot of moments in his story. This is a reporter not a journalist. A biased reporter. So it isn't worth anything what he said.
Seymour Hersh doesn't know anything. In fact, he is a compulsive liar. That's also why he stammers and stutters all through the interview.
@@FidgetyGuy take your time to proof him wrong lol
@@FidgetyGuy Cognitive Dissonance much?
@@Cheesecake99YearsAgoLet's start with Iran. Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer: not very. There exists no “irrefutable evidence of an ongoing hidden nuclear-weapons program in Iran,” Hersh asserted, relying upon the words of anonymous “intelligence and diplomatic officials.” Hersh concluded with a quote from Mohamed ElBaradei, who had retired as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) two years earlier: “During my time at the agency,” ElBaradei said, “we haven’t seen a shred of evidence that Iran has been weaponizing, in terms of building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.”
It's amazing so many people still have doubts about this, that they have to repeat the USA/Norway theory every other moment. When we saw 4 explosions in 3 pipes, 2 in the same pipe 50 miles apart, and one completely untouched pipe - we had no doubt who was the perpretator and the associated message. Any other entity who might wish to shut down the pipelines with explosions, would have done one explosion on each pipe where they are right next to each other, and thereby terminated the pipes 100%. My goodness, how difficult is it?
Its a miracle to me how this channel is still allowed to work as so many of YT channels reporting on war and politics are being shut down. Great journalism ! You are giving me hope some crutial values are still being guarded dearly. Best of luck and we are all in debt to everyone who comes to this show and entire research and technical team.
European propaganda. No different than Russian or US propaganda.
Finally someone from the media is covering this bombshell story
There were a lot of other independent media covering this topic the same day when this report was posted - Feb 8th.
didnt think she would cover this honestly, she's been on a trump tirade for the past 4 years
@@jondoe8271 TDS has turned so many leftists into liberals. It's almost like he was planted to do that very thing.
Tucker Carlson at Fox covered it even earlier. DemNow audience would probably not know that.
Half truth for later PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
Thank you Seymour Hersh for exposing this. Thank you Democracy Now for platforming Sy. The truth needs to be out otherwise we are all lost.
Thanks Saymour Hersh you have the conscience and eyes of God ❤
Seymour Hersh .. a voice of truth in a world of lies.
I have ingested a large quantity of McDonald’s McFlurrys and now I must excuse myself as I need to use the bathroom. Thank you. - me
Dem now is crap. Hersh on dem now is like Glen Greenwald on Tucker Carlson.
Scholz just stood and grinned😮
Hopefully this man does not disappear. He plays a dangerous game. Respect
@@allencollins6031 I messed up, thought your response was from another article. Apologies.
@@MrCrosswalkt All good. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I commented in full support of you original comment.
He's too well known, they would not dare touch him, believe me, if they could, they would have done it a long time ago.
They would not dare touch him.
@@vvvvvvvvv608 right thats the beauty of our country. If he did disappear whatever hes said and currently saying would be perceived as true
Mr. Hersh is an incredible human being. Thank you for informing the world of this evil, inhumane act of sabotage. The world deserves to know.
Assad and Putin couldn’t agree more.
Quote "Asad & Putin couldn't agree more" correction The world couldn't agree more
Hersh actually had ONLY ONE factual source, a confidential informant that he relies on. So, no facts............................elsullo
@@elsullo2 don't worry, there's a whole lot more evidence on the way, they always start with a hint, then an avalanche of evidence, trust me all medias are on it, it's a big story and imperialists can't stop it
Look deeper into this interview. Seymour Hersh does not defend his report and shows clear pro-Russian bias. There are a lot of reasons why this benefitted Russia to have these blown up. He just doesn’t cover them because he wants Russia to win the war by his own confession in this interview. He also makes plain wrong claims like that this war is going well for Russia and that the Chancellor of Germany is from the Green party (The Chancellor of Germany is actually from SDP party). The credibility of this guy is basically zero 🤷♂️ “I wouldn’t even think of giving a story like this to the New York Times. They’ve decided that the Ukraine War is going to be won by Ukraine and that’s what its readers get and so be it. That’s their call.” (9:18) “The Russians.. I don’t think. I think the end is just a question of time. Right now it’s a question of how many more people Zelensky wants to kill of his own people. It’s gunna be over”. (13:33) “There’s also a continuing of hatred of all things Putin in this country… and that’s not useful.” (13:55) Interlocutor: “There are some people who are saying that this particular exposé does not have a whole lot of documentation. That it essentially relies on one source. One internal anonymous source of yours. How do you respond to those criticisms that this is much less documented than previous exposés of yours?” (18:00) “I think [this piece] is going to undercut NATO, which I always found to be supremely useless” (18:58) “As for the source question. I, you know… I’m not bothered... That’s why people like me are in self-publishing.” (19:58)
Little to no mainstream media coverage of this story is truly shameless.
these journalist in this interview are full of sh*t. I don't know him, but he is absolutely bragging and possibly lying about the story. Maybe the story is for like 10% true and he is connecting the dots because he has someone that see things. Hahahaha. Hes trying to find credibility see 13:05, talks about biden doing good stuff, to make him feel genuine and then talk about his credibility 13:19 for itself within his conversation. Brag about alot of stuff, like secrets and bla bla bla. This is no journalist. ' He got alot of access to people who see things' 13:13 Hahahahahaha are you fn serious. This is a journalist? 😂😂😂😂😂. Why hes trying to find credibility in alot of moments in his story. This is a reporter not a journalist. A biased reporter. So it isn't worth anything what he said.
China Daily is reporting it.
Because it's bullshit!
In the mainstream media, they are simultaneously bragging about destroying Nordstream, while demonizing anyone who says in plain English they attacked Nordstream as a "Russian colluder". It's a bizarre charade with high school bully type behavior. It's all about signaling which side you're on and keeping the weapons moving. As stated, "make Ukranians fight to the last in order to weaken Russia".
They desperately try to keep you silenced and believe that US are the good guys
Mr. Hersh proved to be a prophet, beside he is a brilliant mind journalist. Well done sir! 👏
Simon, we need more people like u
This great journalist never lied and everything he reported turned out to be true,,, I have a lot of doubts that an honest person with a lot of dignity starts to give false news...No journalist these days comes close to his heels....And that's a fact....Thank you Mr. Seymour Hersh you are simply unique and without comparison existing on the planet...God bless you.....
I hope so
@Mario Morais Agreed. You'd think if he was as disreputable as is claimed, the White House would have poured forth page after page of example.
He has lied.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD May god save your soul
He is talking the truth!!!
Thank you Democracy Now for getting the truth out. Hopefully Seymour and his report can get some more press
@Cynthia DeMario I'm sure that's been said about all his other reporting as well. The award was only given to him in the hope that he would be happy enough to stop researching other events.
@@oa1270 A cut and paste from Enwiki, "In 2013, Hersh disputed the claim that Bashar al-Assad's government used chemical weapons on civilians at Ghouta during the Syrian Civil War, and in 2015, he reported that the U.S. had lied about the events around the killing of Osama bin Laden, both times attracting controversy and criticism from other reporters, such as Max Fisher for Vox[5] and Eliot Higgins for The Guardian". Seymour has missed the mark in his latter years. He's offering no proof this time 'round. I think his search for book royalties and relevancy trumps the truth here, unfortunately.
@@Lorne.Mccuaig Continue to accept whatever garbage the flailing American empire and its minions feed you.
Wont happen, all MSM is in the pockets of the war industry including the "so called" progressive media.
Surprising the pro war DN would mention this story in a truthful light whatsoever. Its strictly in line with pushing the NeoLiberal NeoCon endless war and color rev. BS All benefit of doubt goes to THEM courtesy of Mi$$ed Good?man amd Democracy NoWhere. So much for going green with Team DN©. Just green washing and astroturf more or less. C F ® has no better ally in the so calles alternative media than DN!
Greetings from Germany. I do not have no words no more. Stay true!
God bless you Mr. Hersh! Keep up the honest reporting.. hopefully, in time more and more everyday American citizens, will pay more attention to the constant lies and propaganda pushed by our leaders and elected officials etc..
When Biden came out and said they would do it, it was obvious they did it
Stopped Putin as if he were a creepy handing out poison-candy. Putin weaponized energy for Europe, but the lynch mob herald run by Bland and Hersch want to deflect from this.
The dogs on the streets knew it.
Its US gov. What else to expect. Same issue with previous war. Also US here & there.
First time in Bidens life he told the truth about something.
THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hersh is a HERO!
Thank you DN for keeping me informed.
As a former small town journalist I'm obviously proud of Mr. Hersh with his work. We need more of his type if only to keep everybody honest.
Proud of this Putler-propaganda? 😅
I agree with you! Glad that there are still people that are prepared to put their reputation at risk for the sake of the truth! The world would be a better place if we had more people that stand up to the truth! A good journalist must always stay neutral and tell the truth!
@@helgekarlsen171 was it Iraqi propaganda when he dropped the story that Americans were raping and torturing civs and pows in Iraq at Abu Ghraib in 04? Was it propaganda when he broke tons of other stories?
He knows wouldn’t have happened with trump
@@helgekarlsen171 Seymour Hersh is the most respected journalist in the world of journalism so coming from him this is a bomb shell !! Now the New York Times is trying to spin the story and have come up with the counter story LOL.. they now claim it was PRO Ukraine group that did it :) im laughing out loud :) so it is no longer the RUSSIANS DID IT TO THEM SELVES :) now it is the WE DID NOT DO IT tit was the UKRAINE :) got to love New York Times = well known marketing media for intelligence deep state . this has all become so obvious that you would have to have IQ bellow 75 not to understand it
Mr.Seymour Hersh, you are a great jornalist , genuine and original , protect yourself at all cost, I would not like to see you as next Julian Assange, please , protect yourself , and announce that you never suicide .The world needs more people like you .God bless you.
Thanks for providing another perspective on this controversy.
The Americans forgot they have the Alaskan pipeline too.