Tag: seymour hersh
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@RadioFreeBlood: James Evan Pilato on Limited Hangout
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for the very merry month of May to talk about Bin Laden’s bookshelf, Letterman’s 33 years and phony filibusters + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Radio Free Blood! Download/Subscribe
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cheneyacs, pnac2, the controlled opposition & yoo
…both wings of this phony bird are ratcheting up the rhetoric, but let’s not get too distracted by the false left/right paradigm… hersh: cheney left ‘stay-behind units’ in obama govt hersh: cheney has moles in obama govtfrom raw replay: Investigative report Sy Hersh talks about his interview with Dick Cheney in which the former vice…
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collateral 54: real wars, fake triggers
from collateral news: What happens when the media doesn’t report a proposal by the Vice President’s national security team to purposely kill Americans in order to provoke war with Iran? – What happens is, the proposal stands a better chance of becoming reality.
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another false flag op exposed: dress up navy seals like iranians & shoot at ’em
but they would never do something like 9/11… from thinkprogress: Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.…
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collateral 50: would it surprise you?
from collateral news: “We’re getting unconfirmed reports from Tehran that explosions were heard throughout the city late last night. One blog has a live feed of Iranian anti-aircraft fire. Another has images of a damaged US Navy destroyer.” … The report we just gave isn’t true. But with the way the corporate media is carrying…
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hersh: US escalating covert ops against iran
from thinkprogress: The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh reports that late last year, “Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.” The “Presidential Finding” was designed to destabilize religious leadership and gather “intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program”: But the scale and the scope of the…
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in the thrall of aipac: why obama can’t save us
from counterpunch: Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh recently said that Barack Obama is our “only hope” to “lead a reconciliation between the Muslim countries and the US.” Why? Because Obama’s father was a Muslim. I simply don’t follow Hersh’s logic here. Seems to me the actions of a president are more important than some familial affiliation…
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torture, rape & videotape
‘highly likely’ bush saw torture tapesfrom thinkprogress: Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent and State Department counterterrorism official, told The Bill Press Show this morning that it was “highly likely” President Bush had viewed the videotapes of the 2002 interrogations that were later destroyed: Bill Press: You said that you believe President Bush actually saw…
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hersh: US & israel support pkk
from press tv: PKK Kurdish rebel group and its sister organization, PEJAK, have been receiving support from the US and Israel, an American journalist claims. “In the past months, Israel and the United States have been working together in support of PKK and its Iranian offshoot PEJAK, I was told by a government consultant with…
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hersh: US funds al-qaeda
from thinkprogress: New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the “single most explosive” element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the Iranian government and Hezbollah in Lebanon) by funding violent Sunni groups. Hersh says the U.S. has been “pumping…
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‘no proof’ of iran nuclear arms
from bbc: The US Central Intelligence Agency has not found conclusive evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, a US magazine has reported. Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, cites a secret CIA report based on intelligence such as satellite images. Correspondents say the alleged document appears to challenge Washington’s views…
