You may have heard about Seymour Hersh’s bombshell story today that implicates the US and Norway as the culprits who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines last year. For those who don’t know the work of Hersh, he’s among the most legendary old-school investigative journalists. He broke the story of the My Lai massacre of a whole village of over 500 civilians by US soldiers in 1968 that turned many Americans against the Vietnam war. (Of note, a Major Colin Powell was assigned to lead the investigation of the massacre, and he covered it up, earning himself a trip up the golden ladder to Secretary of State under Bush) He broke the story of the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by US soldiers in Iraq. In 2008 he wrote “Preparing the Battlefield”, published in the New Yorker magazine, that told of the Bush administration plans to destroy Iran, partly by destroying Syria first using terrorist groups, and then of course the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations proceeded to do exactly that. And in 2013 Hersh exposed Obama administration lies that framed the Assad government for faked Sarin gas attacks that the West used as pretext for bombing raids against Syria. So he’s got some street cred.
And here in DK the silence about this is so loud that it is ridiculous. No one utters a word.