by Pepe Escobar, widely distributed on the Internet, posted with the author’s permission
When it comes to the Global South, what the Hersh report imprints is Rogue Superpower, in giant blood red letters, as state sponsor of terrorism.
Everyone with a brain already knew the Empire did it. Now Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report not only details how Nord Stream 1 and 2 were attacked, but also names names: from the toxic Straussian neoliberal-con trio Sullivan, Blinken and Nuland all the way to the Teleprompter Reader-in-Chief.
Arguably the most incandescent nugget in Hersh’s narrative is to point ultimate responsibility directly at the White House. The CIA, for its part, gets away with it. The whole report may be read as the framing of a scapegoat. A very fragile, shoddy scapegoat – what with those classified documents in the garage, the endless stares into the void, the cornucopia of incomprehensible mumbling, and of course the whole, ghastly, years-long family corruption carousel in and around Ukraine, still to be completely unveiled.
Hersh’s report happened to pop up immediately after the deadly earthquakes in Turkey/Syria. This is an investigative journalism earthquake in itself, straddling over fault lines and revealing countless open air fissures, nuggets of truth gasping for air amidst the rubble.
But is that all there is? Does the narrative hold from start to finish? Yes and no. First of all, why now? This is a leak – essentially from one Deep State insider, Hersh’s key source. This 21st century “Deep Throat” remix may be appalled at the toxicity of the system, but at the same time he knows that whatever he says, there will be no consequences.
Cowardly Berlin – ignoring the nuts and bolts of the scheme all along – will not even squeak. After all the Green gang has been ecstatic, because the terror attack has thoroughly advanced their medieval de-industrialization agenda. In parallel, as an extra bonus, all the other European vassals receive further confirmation this is the fate that awaits them if they don’t follow His Master’s Voice.
Hersh’s narrative frames the Norwegians as the essential accessory to terror. Hardly surprising: NATO’s Jens “Peace is War” Stoltenberg has been a CIA asset for perhaps half a century. And Oslo of course had its own motives to be part of the deal; to collect loads of extra cash selling whatever spare energy it had for desperate European customers.
A little narrative problem is that Norway, unlike the U.S. Navy, still does not have any operational P-8 Poseidon. What was clear at the time is that an American P-8 was commuting back and forth – with mid-air refueling – from the U.S. to Bornholm island.
A positive screamer is that Hersh – rather, his key source – had the MI6 completely vanish from the narrative. SVR, Russian intel, had focused like a laser on MI6 at the time, as well as the Poles. What still cements the narrative is that the combo behind “Biden” provided the planning, the intel and coordinated the logistics, while the final act – in this case a sonar buoy detonating the C4 explosives – may have been perpetrated by the Norwegian vassals.
The problem is the buoy may have been dropped by an American P-8. And there’s no explanation of why one of the sections of Nord Stream 2 escaped intact.
Hersh’s modus operandi is legendary. From the perspective of a foreign correspondent on the ground since the mid-1990s, from the U.S. and NATOstan to all corners of Eurasia, it’s easy for someone like me to understand how he uses anonymous sources and how he accesses – and protects – his extensive list of contacts: trust works both ways. His track record is absolutely unrivalled.
But of course the possibility remains: what if he is being played? Is this no more than a limited hangout? After all, the narrative oscillates wildly between minute detail and quite a few dead ends, constantly featuring a huge paper trail and too many people in the loop – which implies exaggerated risk. The CIA hesitating too much to go for the kill is a certified red alert throughout the narrative – especially when we know that the ideal underwater actors for such an op would have come from the CIA Special Activities Division, and not the U.S. Navy.
What will Russia do?
Arguably the whole planet is thinking what will be the Russian response.
Surveying the chessboard, what the Kremlin and the Security Council see is Merkel confessing Minsk 2 was merely a ruse; the imperial attack on the Nord Streams (they got the picture, but might not have all the insider details provided by Hersh’s source); former Israeli PM Bennett on the record detailing how the Anglo-Americans killed the Ukraine peace process which was on track in Istanbul last year.
So it’s no wonder that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it clear that when it comes to nuclear negotiations with the Americans, any proposed gestures of goodwill are “unjustified, untimely and uncalled for.”
The Ministry, on purpose, and somewhat ominously, was very vague on a key issue: “strategic nuclear forces objects” that have been attacked by Kiev – helped by the Americans. These attacks may have involved “military-technical and information-intelligence” aspects.
When it comes to the Global South, what the Hersh report imprints is Rogue Superpower, in giant blood red letters, as state sponsor of terrorism: the ritual burial – at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – of international law, and even the Empire’s tawdry ersatz, the “rules-based international order”.
It will take some time to fully identify which Deep State faction may have used Hersh to promote its agenda. Of course he’s aware of it – but that would never have been enough to keep him away from researching a bombshell (three months of hard work). The U.S. mainstream media will do everything to suppress, censor, demean and ignore his report; but what matters is that across the Global South it is already spreading like wildfire.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Lavrov has gone totally unplugged, much like Medvedev, denouncing how the U.S. has “unleashed a total hybrid war” against Russia, with both nuclear powers now on a path of direct confrontation. And as Washington has declared the “strategic defeat” of Russia as its goal and turned bilateral relations into a ball of fire, there can be no “business as usual” anymore.
The Russian “response” – even before Hersh’s report – has been on another level entirely; advanced de-dollarization across the spectrum, from the EAEU to BRICS and beyond; and total reorientation of trade towards Eurasia and other parts of the Global South. Russia is establishing firm conditions for further stability, already foreseeing the inevitable: the time to frontally deal with NATO.
As kinetic responses go, facts on the battleground show Russia further crushing the American/NATO proxy army in full Strategic Ambiguity mode. The terror attack on the Nord Streams of course will always be lurking in the background. There will be blowback. But that will be at a time, manner and place of Russia’s choosing.
It’s all just talk on the part of Russia. Both Russia and China are only working on a slow grind on the Evil Empire. Russia is fighting battles against the tentacles of the colonies which are highly expendable. The head of the Medusa is safe and sprouting more tentacles than Russia can fight.
The simple and only way to stop WW3 is to cut off the Medusa head in one blow. And that’s to collapse the economy of the Evil Empire immediately. Then no more printing press for Monopoly money, no guns pointing at the backs of reluctant colonies pushing them to die in the front lines against Russian military.
China is even more stupidly Pollyanna, thinking, maybe, just once, US means what they say. Despite US openly telling the world that China is an existential threat to the Evil Empire’s rights to pillage and rape the whole world.
Just one push instead of slow fanning of the flames that doesn’t hurt the Evil Empire safely protected by sacrificial colonies.
Only when the last American artillery shell has been fired, only when the last Ukrainian soldier has been killed and only when the last of Ukrainian state territory has been irretrievably lost will The Americans and Europeans finally realize that God Favours Russia . . . https://les7eb.substack.com
Please be merciful. Give the USA a little more time. People in the USA are wising up to the scam. I’m living proof.
I don’t want to suffer like the Europeans. My parents, grandparents and I never hated Russia or China. I used to have a beef with the Soviet Union and joined the USN to fight in the Cold War. I was a young propagandized kid ignorant of true history. My stupidity almost got me killed!
people who are so ignorant, uneducated, hedonistic, greedy, that they readily agreed to their country murdering millions and millions of the most innocent and vulnerable human of this planet, should and must be punished; even though the lord above gives latitude to evil purposely but once the rug is pulled, complete and utter destruction is the result. How many a lessons History has taught us but to no avail…..What these evil wicked, evil satanic Americans did in my native Afghanistan is unforgivable, they rtaped and murdered 3 and 4 year old infants, brutally murdered 80 year old harmless grandmothers and grandfathers with toddlers in their arms…..no race or people have shown such vicious purposeless brutality in the history of humanity, and yet we defeated these ugly evil cowards and now has come time for them to pay in the same manner…..Divine justice is ever and ever closer, it is closer than your jugular vein but you know not …..Every day millions upon millions pray for ruin of you satanic country, pay the same price in blood and destruction as we have paid then we can judge justly
Excellent article. Right that we don’t know if Hersh was played but his explanation at least makes sense unlike the retarded fantasy that Russia blew up its own pipeline instead of merely turning off the spigots.
Only quibble is the Greens can more accurately be described as an apocalyptic cult with a medieval de-industrialization agenda.
“Only quibble is the Greens can more accurately be described as an apocalyptic cult with a medieval de-industrialization agenda.”
You don’t need to quibble. Ever wondered why the green agenda syncs so well with agenda of the WEF? That’s because they have the same offspring, not because there was a ‘massive convincing’ of that sort.
In our world it will not make much sense, but it becomes clear when realizing that TPTB are indeed so cynical as to destroy the economy in order to save the banks.
They needed a means. As often, the Rockefellers are involved (watch out, they also invented the WHO).
I’d invite to read this short wrap-up by F. William Engdahl, then it starts to make sense: https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/10/the-dark-origins-of-the-davos-great-reset/
(when you like this sort of analysis, then read the book ‘A Century of War’ by Engdahl – much will be clearer.)
Cheers and stay safe, Rob
Ludites.
The Jonathons have form in blowing up Russian gas pipelines – don’t forget that ….
Hi Pepe, I never miss one of your articles. And you are the most prolific and eloquent of today’s geopolitical commentators.
I come to this issue of the pipeline sabotage from the view of someone with many family members in Sweden. One cousin lives in the middle of the Baltic on the island of Gotland. The port there of Visby had NATO ships there last summer. Swedes have all watched way too much CNN and the other US propaganda media. When I talked to my mom shortly after the sabotage, she said with the certainty of the brainwashed “the Russians blew up the pipeline”. I can’t talk with any of them about such matters.
Of course the USA did it. Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland bragged about it. Brain dead Biden stated before the fact that they would destroy the Nordstream. I can’t believe that even formerly neutral Sweden, a neutral country for more than 200 years, made an investigation and now they won’t say what they found. This once noble country, of only 10 million, continues to send weapons to the Ukies. Paint a bulls eye on Stockholm. Poor Sweden, they are bound to get blowback on this.
And now the wimpy Germans don’t even complain or even say “ouch” after getting screwed like that.
The once proud Teutons were now arm twisted into sending Tiger Tanks again to the Ukraine. Here are my thoughts about the Abrams and Leopard tanks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGa0Cnxpqw&t=4s
Don’t they remember how their grandfathers were killed by the millions and pushed back by the Red Army to Berlin? Do they really think it will turn out better this time? Ol liverwurst Sholz says they are now at war with Russia. Does he imagine that a few patriot batteries will protect Germany? They have no missile shield, especially against Russian hypersonic missiles. He’d better cover his ass fast when Mr. Sarmat and Mr. Khinzal come calling.
The only good that comes out of this is that the whole world, at least outside the degenerate West, sees that the Emperor is a bloody terrorist, if they ever had any doubt.
I wish all of you and the world the best from here in Mexico.
Nilo
We all of us have fruitloop family members who insist that rushed experimental vaccines are totally safe and that Putin is the new Hitler. As soon as you say ‘all of our journalists are lying’ you can see in their eyes that they are picturing you wearing a tinfoil hat.
Some videos for today. I’ll keep posting them until the site goes into the archive mode.
RT follows Russian troops on their advance westward:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/advancing_westward_1002:d
Neo-Nazi extremists trained in the Ukraine return to US en masse (the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/US_neo-nazi_1102:e
Kiev regime military continues shelling Donbass civilians:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Makeevka_1102:0
First Armata tank in action:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FvKysxmmxqt5/
Russian naval drone strikes enemy bridge in Odessa:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/v4VEXgakyI6k/
Another Kiev regime thermal power plant destroyed:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/albbKo21NFLM/
Russian Lancet drone destroys German-supplied self-propelled howitzer:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LLtifqGJwSgZ/
Russian Lancet drone destroys another US-supplied M777 howitzer:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VZOeAP1QvSHZ/
Russian airborne troops use drone-corrected artillery fire to pound enemy position:
https://rutube.ru/video/4b5ac06570793b001d0ad6fb7e16fd3b/
Russian D-20 howitzer fires on enemy position:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/D-20_UAV_1102:5
@ Nate on February 11, 2023 · at 10:18 pm EST/EDT
I thank you for your selection of videos.
Unfortunately, some idiots will time to waste, are ruining videos by adding their “music” to them, glorifying death and destruction. I am talking about mostly about silent videos from drones. But even videos where there is sound, they have dubbed music into them, the idiots, ruining the experience.
Not your fault at all, Nate, I just had to vent my frustration with the noise makers.
Thanks again.
Lone Wolf
Correction
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“…some idiots will time to waste…” should read “…some idiots with time to waste.”
Lone Wolf
My thanks as well for these great selections, Nate…although I quite like the backing music, especially when it’s Russian heavy rock music as I believe that this expresses the feelings of many of Russia’s young soldiers. As they are strafing the positions of genocidal neo-Nazi rapists I wouldn’t be surprised if they were actually listening to this kind of music and mouthing choice Russian obscenities at the same time.
99% of the people consider heavy metal devil music and have a distaste for it. Plants would die if they “listen” to this music, animals would flee as if an earthquake is imminent. If this is what Russians listen to then i pity them. At least under communism they had folk music.
It is a shame heavy metal represents the Russian army. Bosnian Serbs had folk music representing their battles.
@dave
I was a punk rocker in London in the seventies so I probably have a bit more tolerance than you for so called ‘devil music’ lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7JldaN3HE
Those devils, how dare they smash things up, why don’t they wear shirts and ties, get proper jobs, and show proper deference to the upper classes…
Guess I’m in the 1% considering Heavy Metal Gods music then.
Hope your not among those who listen to records in reverse, and break them after finding ‘subliminal’ messages.
Indeed those sound tracks have pissed me off for some time,its not a video game men are dying.
The present generation of kids learn touch screen commands before they learn words. Most, if not all, Russian soldiers in their twenties have played video games. Isn’t watching recorded suicide drone impacts exactly the same technology, regardless of whether or not it has backing music? War is a senseless machine that kills everything, so either don’t watch the drones targeting humans at all, or else don’t complain about the compiler’s musical choices, which are totally irrelevant in the scale of things.
I agree.
IMO dubbed=in music has no place whatsoever in news reports and videos.
These are not feature films.
The purpose of music soundtracks in feature films is to produce emotional responses of different kinds. Creating or choosing a sound track is part of the creative process of making a creative feature or shorter film.
These videos are news reports, not someone’s “creation.”
Adding music vitiates these news videos’ value as actual news reports and taints the source of the videos as being immature.
As on-the-scene reports the videos speak for themselves; the viewer doe snot have to be “prompted” what to feel via added music tracks.
Hi Lone Wolf, I totally agree with you about adding any old rock track to these very serious videos that document this ongoing war. However, there was at one time a very large anti-war movement in Europe and the US. At that time a lot of very good anti-war songs were composed and sung. This present war was machinated by the Pentagon and CIA starting with the Maidan coup in 2014 and continuing with the genocide against the people of Donbass. The Russian army did not enter the fray until the Ukies began shelling Donetsk much more intensely. So, I don’t add some carefully selected music track as a condemnation of the SMO. I just hope that Americans that hear an anti-war song might be prompted to begin to protest the US intromission in the conflict and especially to stop the arming of the Ukie regime.
Do you think that I’m dreaming Lone Wolf?
Yep, I’m not the one uploading the videos, so there is nothing I can do. I can only suggest using the mute button. I will say that you can find many different types of music in these videos. For instance, the official Russian Ministry of Defense and RT (Russian language) rutube channels often puts electronic/ambient background music (the type you usually hear in news reports) into their videos. I find that to be very fitting for the subject matter, as it is not distracting from the video content itself.
Regarding the RT interview about American and other countries’ Nazis going to fight with Azov et al, I recall in the CIA’s war on Russia in Afghanistan that the CIA and the Saudi royal family funded Muslim extremists from all over the world; I have to think that without external funding, these ‘skinhead’ Nazis would surely lack the means to get to the Ukraine. This is an old playbook where the Americans think they can use extremists for their own purpose without global consequences, such as 9/11 and the rise of ISIS.
> As kinetic responses go, facts on the battleground show Russia further crushing the American/NATO proxy army in full Strategic Ambiguity mode
No. There’s a difference between punching a dood in his mouth when his hot “piece” is watching, vs, slashing his tyres
Till Russia punches the US in mouth for everyone to see, and it’s a knockout, it will not make a difference. they will spin it any way they want
Russia is the adult in the room here, trying to avoid a fatal outcome of WW3. Slashing tires is a less glorious way of putting Empire out of business, much smaller risk to the world than a knock-out blow. There is speculations this is one of the reasons for the slow movement of the frontier as well, avoiding panic in Empire.
“It will take some time to fully identify which Deep State faction may have used Hersh to promote its agenda. ”
I am a little curious to know exactly which piece of evidence supports this contention. I may, of course, have over looked it, but would appreciate being shown what it is.
The only basis for this is that Hersch relies on an insider source as he has in the past. He has not been proven wrong so far, a fact disputed only by government lackeys. Also I think he can read people pretty well and is not easily deceived or used.
I would say the core of the story is true and as complete as is feasible and there is someone or more than one deep in power who wants truth to be told.
Re “exactly which piece of evidence supports this contention”
I don’t see that the contention rests on “an exact piece of evidence.” IMO it rests on rather obvious inferences.
It is obvious to most honest who was responsible for the attacks, who benefited, and who suffered.
US officials and Biden have repeated expressed their intentions, and their satisfaction with the result of the attack.
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to keep the incident in the “mystery/who dunnit?” area of one’s brain.
So, the most interesting question is, Why now? What is the reason for putting out this story in a coherent, semi-mainstream form at this point? And what is the subtext of the story?
IOW, the motive and opportunity were already clear, and many observers have already put together many of the “means” puzzle pieces and connected quite a few dots.
So, focus shifts to the “meta” aspects of the Hersh communique. What is included, what is emphasized, what is left out.
After readingn the Hersh piece, I immed. had a feeling that it was some kind of domestic political play, at least in part.
The collective West is run by the little god of this world, it is a hateful bird. Make Alaska Russia again.
A poor little god and her few kids are no match for the great satan, and its doubtful if he can be removed, the law of his numbers and all.
“And there’s no explanation of why one of the sections of Nord Stream 2 escaped intact.”
Early reports showed four points of explosion. Each of the two strands of Nord Stream 1 was blasted, while one of the two strands of Nord Stream 2 was blasted in two, distant places! This seems like a surveying error or a communication error. The dyslexic scoundrels wouldn’t realize their error until either Germany or Russia reported that one strand of Nord Stream 2 still had pressure.
Another fine article by Mr Escobar. May God bless you for your truth telling. May I add some other brave truth tellers I admire:
Andrei Martyanov
Douglas MacGregor
Gonzala Lira
Gordon Duff (theinteldrop.org)
Jim Dean (theinteldrop.org)
Jonas Alexis (veteranstoday.com)
Clayton Morris (redacted)
George Galloway (M.O.A.T.)
Emil Cosman
Scott Ritter
Phil Butler
F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
The Saker
Jeff Rense
If you want the truth, start with these exceptional people and their websites and or youtube channels. The truth will set you free!!!
It is over for the Empire.
The only question is- will it end with a bang or a whimper?
I think it will end with a farce. The US government will be claiming victories and successes long after it is clear to everyone else that it is over and the US will face only defeats.
Excellent and also critical in a good sense when needed, Pepe. Thanks.
Just a thought.
Could it be that the suddenly popping up of ‘War on Weather Balloons’ was hastily drawn out of the drawer, to divert the attention of this Hersh bombshell?
Maybe the first one was real, and out of proportion as a PR move for Biden, but the rest…
Frankly said, I’ve as good as lost hope that the Germans will fully realize that they are sacrificed by their own government. There is a Morgenthau Plan 2.0 in the making. The first one our asses were partially saved by the Soviets (the number of perished Germans *after* the war is in the millions, it’s a lost page in history), but I’m not so sure about this time.
Cheers and stay safe, Rob
Ultimately history shows that our actions – and consequences – are not of our choosing.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
But they are of, and not only that, they are predictable and repetitive.
Russia can apparently rebuild Nord Stream in just a couple of months, although of course reassigning the required supply is another matter. Germany’s lack of response is a great mystery to me, because I remember it’s past industrial might and its exceptional military competance. In a recent RT Crosstalk programme Ray McGovern descibed Germany as suffering from ‘battered wife syndrome’.
Both Russia and China are fighting for their very survival as the western monetary system is collapsing and the US government itself will break apart from debt. This is all apart of the Great Reset for their one world government which is failing as western economies are failing and soon pensions stop as defaults on debt start with massive bank failures as even the FDIC stated in a leaked video that all US banks are in trouble, we cannot tell the public as bank runs will start before they do bail ins which is taking your money.
Two Paths to Build Back Better
“If there was ever a time when the West is crumbling from within, and the end gold is to Build Back Better creating a new world order from the ashes, there have been two schools of thought. First, there have been those who believed that creating another Great Depression would achieve that objective just as Roosevelt ended free-market capitalism. The second is that to also reduce the population, we need a war to achieve all the goals and Build Back Better as they did following World War II”
Anything less than those two types of events will not achieve their goal.
The origins to the Davos/Reset end to this framework were always ‘shifty’. The concept’s originator was never Team Schwab,but David Rockefeller, Chair of Chase Manhattan Bank, and his protégé (and later Klaus Schwab’s ‘indispensable adviser’), Maurice Strong.
William Engdahl has written how “circles directly tied to David Rockefeller in the 1970s launched a dazzling array of élite organizations and think tanks. These included the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome; the MIT-authored study, ‘Limits to Growth’; and the Trilateral Commission”:
“In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply flawed report, Limits to Growth, which predicted an end to civilization, owing to population growth combined with depleting resources. That was 1971. In 1973, Klaus Schwab at his third annual Davos, presented Limits to Growth as his [vision for the future], to the assembled corporate CEOs. In 1974, the Club of Rome’s Turning Point, subsequently argued that ‘Interdependence must translate as a decrease in independence’: Now is the time to draw up a master plan [for] a new global economic system.
It was Maurice Strong, Rockefeller’s protégé, as Chair of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, [who] promoted an economic strategy of population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to ‘save the environment’. As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong commissioned the report from the Club of Rome which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change: The real enemy is humanity itself – whose behaviour was to be changed. President Clinton’s delegate to Rio, Tim Wirth, admitted the same, stating, “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the ‘right thing’ in terms of economic policy”.
The point here is that the Rockefeller-Davos prescription was always a scam for blowing a new financial bubble to keep the dollar hegemony project afloat.
@ Pepe
Obrigado Pepe, as always.
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“…The only flaw was the decision to do it.”
Was the last ominous comment made by the source in the last sentence of Hersh’s article.
There are, of course, in a plot of this size, a lot more convoluted than a Clancy novel, quite a few dead ends, and we may never know their sequel.
Nevertheless, we could count on Sy Hersh’s experience and expertise diving into murkier waters than the Baltic Sea, pun intended, drilling his XXI c. “Deep Throat,” corroborating, confronting, and verifying, up to a humanly possible extent, his/her version of the events, and his/her credibility.
We cannot assume “the source” is a man.
After all, Vicky “Sack-of-Fat” Nuland was part of the planning and decision making team, representing the neo-zio-nazi witches, their ugliest branch.
Scapegoating “Teleprompter Reader-in-Chief” was an easy matter, after he (and la Nuland) announced in advance their intention, all needed was to connect the dots. Enmities in those high levels of intel alphabet soups are the norm, not the exception, and all those people, CIA/NSA/DoS, etc., are masters in the art of killing by proxy, both physically and politically.
The fact the CIA “gets away with it” points out to the origin of the potential “source,” and the Bidens have made quite a few enemies at those levels, using their power for personal corruption rackets in Ukraine. Let’s not discount the fact that Trumpists populates the army, security agencies, both foreign and domestic, and they are all out for revenge on a full time basis.
On another note, Pepe’s observation that,
“…The U.S. mainstream media will do everything to suppress, censor, demean and ignore his report; but what matters is that across the Global South it is already spreading like wildfire…”
highlights the socio-political regression the US MSM has suffered, turning into a full time mouthpiece for the establishment. The same MSM that fought to have Hersh’s articles published in their front page, have now pushed him to a substack. Given Hersh’s age, soon we will hear of how he has gone senile, suffers early dementia, and the German (Alzheimer’s) has visited him.
If the gap between Russia and the US/Collective West was already difficult to close, the “bombshell earthquake” widened the gap to the size of the Grand Canyon. Russia knew it was fighting a rogue power, the confirmation coming from Sy Hersh should kill any hopes of a “negotiated settlement” in Ukraine, or that the US/CW will ever consider Russia’s security needs in their relations.
Russia is fighting terrorist states, the US and their Eurobastard minions.
Blowback?
Sure.
Prigozhin loves trolling the US/CW, and just recently he was asked how long the war would last.
His answer was,
https://t.me/azmilitary11/37082
“If we have to go to the Dnieper, then for three years. If we need to close the “DNR /LNR”, well, we need at least another year and a half or two to work. If it is necessary to reach the English Channel, then I have my own plan,”
– Yevgeniy Prigozhin
There you have it.
Plan is ready, and you better believe that if Prigozhin and his marvelous Philharmonic Orchestra has a plan, the stavka has a similar one.
Lone Wolf
America’s (or The Evil Empire if you will because it is a global entity) war on Russia predates the Biden administration.
Everyone with the ability to think for themselves knows that America blew up the Nordstream pipelines.
The people of the Biden administration are not the shot callers. They are the filthy minions of far more powerful forces.
The evil ones, and they are legion, that deliberately started the war in Ukraine, and all of America’s wars this century, are not on TV.
Seymour’s article / reporting has an odd smell to it.
“Seymour’s article / reporting has an odd smell to it.:”
I agree. My antennae have been twitching since the day I read it.
Hersh totally accepts The Narrative on the good guys and bad guys.
Is he forced to do that in order for the piece to be published?
Since it is on Substack, he does not.
He is doing this for someone. I am quite sure.
Taffy I agree with you . Seymour got the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. All the awardees have their whistleblowing street cred. Yet they all support the U.S. version of 9/11.
Seymour had a big story on the Bin Laden burial at sea being a lie . As with all the rest of the awardees he exposes the U.S. Gov.’s lying and still reinforces that Bin Laden did the attacks. Do we still think they are not mouthpieces for the NWO and a well developed controlled opposition?
This exposure supports the run up to a U.S. Russian war where all the economically disadvantaged soldiers are slaughtered.
@ britelite on February 12, 2023 · at 9:23 am EST/EDT
Seymour’s article / reporting has an odd smell to it.
Not as smelly as your post.
You show not a shred of evidence to question Sy Hersh’s article, and out of vague generalities you declare his reporting “has an odd smell to it,” a man whose track record, as Pepe well stated, ”is absolutely unrivaled.”
Your post, and your backer right below you, smells heavily of trolling.
It is typical for trolls to throw mud without any basis, then having someone else, or sign themselves with another nick, come in and corroborate their comments.
No arguments whatsoever back your mud throwing.
If you have any, let us see them.
Lone Wolf
“No arguments whatsoever back your mud throwing. If you have any, let us see them.”
Well Dogan above said that Hersh does reveals like the lie about Bin Laden’s burial whilst espousing the 9/11 narrative of Bin Laden arranging it from his cave. The point is, Hersh’s piece is, to be frank, BS, & it is BS because no.1 we know the US/UK blew the pipeline, & this is the kind of operation that the CIA/MI6 would have organised, this is what they do, & they do it in part to provide official government with plausible deniability, that is one of the functions of the intel agencies. All Hersh is doing is confirming what we already know, that it is the US that did it, he leaves out the UK, & it wasn’t Russia blowing up its own pipelines for a bit of amusement. Journalists like Hersh fall into the same category as Chomsky, they are controlled opposition, they put out a false dissenting narrative that muddies the waters of real dissent & obscures what is really going on. Chomsky, when he was at his best (1980s/90s) always focussed on the military industrial complex & on the economic side of things the IMF & World Bank, “neoliberalism”, but he left Wall St along it engaged in no critical analysis of the role of the banks & their owners. Their owners he would never even dream of mentioning. Chomsky shilled for the Israeli lobby, he did this openly by actively promoting a narrative that they have no real influence to speak of over US foreign policy. Every man & his dog by now knows how ridiculous this is, & it is not because of some mystical power Israel has, but because Israel is supported by the same Wall St banking establishment (jewish) that Chomsky refused to mention. Sy Hersh is much of the same, he is always covering for elements of a deep state he pretends to expose & criticize, when in reality, he is doing neither.
I doubt that China’s caution and reluctance to provoke the rabid dog is any sign that they are not fully convinced of US duplicity and aggression. They know that this impending war will be highly destructive, bad for everyone, and they are in no hurry to destroy Empire.
On the other hand, as depolarization proceeds, the US will find itself overextended if not bankrupt. For many years, the world has paid tribute in the form of the petrodollar’s Treasuries and that scam seems to be coming to an end. Patience is justified.
Speaking of being played, I recently met with a Russian national living outside of Russia. She said that the same “insect flour” recently imposed on Europeans is also happening in Russia.
Any verifications from others would be interesting. The person telling me this is a no BS type and seems to know. Thoughts on what is going on? I thought Putin rejected the WEF abomination.
It is a huge stretch to think Peace Talks in Istanbul in mid and late March had any potential of settling the issues. Mariupol still had not been captured. Donbass was being bombarded daily by Ukies. The overall picture of the Russian operation was not looking good. A change in Generals was coming.
Why do people think Russia would cease the SMO at that stage?
It’s typical Western and Liberal thinking.
Russia would not have gained anything and would have lost forever their goals of moving NATO to 1997 lines, demilitarizing Ukraine, denazifying Ukraine, moving all NATO/Ukie weapons 500 km to the west.
It is ludicrous to think any deal was in the works or possible.
As long as I have known him — Vietnam — Hersh has run cover for CIA. He’s still at it, still on the dark side. One would think Larry Johnson would know that. Of course he too is CIA.
Also, CIA’s kinetic force are DevGru (ST6), aka US Navy. They do just about everything, including underwater demo, also hostage rescue. Even the producers of the movie Spy Games got that right. In the US SOF “community,” ST6 are considered cowboys, murder and mayhem makers for no good purpose. Stan McCrystal threw them out of Afghanistan because they didn’t care about collateral damage on civilians and their properties.
CIA control all major “news” feeders in The USA and likely Europe. They also control US State Dept., largely through USAID. Burns, not Blinken, did the latest honors telling Ukie regime what they are doing next.
Many years ago, Bill Moyers remarked that what we hear is propaganda; “the news” is what we don’t hear. The news about the NS pipeline attack is what Hersh does not write about it.
IMO, a better term than rogue superpower for these people is black side criminals, Sicarii, assassins, or just plain, transnational criminal organization with Sicarii at their center. Against our country also they operate through proxies: ANTIFA, BLM, feminism, abortion offices, faculty lounges, Gates, Soros and many other rich-man bigot projects, NGOs too numerous to count, and publicly-privately financed “security” firms galore. Sicarii just love to cause murder and mayhem.
Finally, no nation whose officialdom live on the dark side is a superpower. It’s an Augean Stable awaiting Hercules.
The Rev. David R. Graham , thanks for your analysis.
Just wondering if the explosive charges might have been set off accidentally by an errant signal.
Perhaps the charges were meant to be set off when Russian vessels were in the area.
And/or the charges were meant to be set off when and if Putin had said something that could be
(mis)construed as threatening the status of the pipelines.
@ Nilo Cruz on February 12, 2023 · at 2:44 pm EST/EDT
Hi Lone Wolf, I totally agree with you about adding any old rock track to these very serious videos that document this ongoing war. However, there was at one time a very large anti-war movement in Europe and the US. At that time a lot of very good anti-war songs were composed and sung. This present war was machinated by the Pentagon and CIA starting with the Maidan coup in 2014 and continuing with the genocide against the people of Donbass. The Russian army did not enter the fray until the Ukies began shelling Donetsk much more intensely. So, I don’t add some carefully selected music track as a condemnation of the SMO. I just hope that Americans that hear an anti-war song might be prompted to begin to protest the US intromission in the conflict and especially to stop the arming of the Ukie regime.
Do you think that I’m dreaming Lone Wolf?
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No, you’re not.
May your good intentions be rewarded.
My contention in general is adding music to videos where human beings, no matter the side, are being killed.
Killing is not a celebration. All life is sacred, no matter who or how justified their killing is.
I’d have no problems killing nazis, for sure I won’t be singing rap or heavy metal trash while doing it.
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@ Nate on February 12, 2023 · at 7:16 pm EST/EDT
Yep, I’m not the one uploading the videos, so there is nothing I can do. I can only suggest using the mute button. I will say that you can find many different types of music in these videos. For instance, the official Russian Ministry of Defense and RT (Russian language) rutube channels often puts electronic/ambient background music (the type you usually hear in news reports) into their videos. I find that to be very fitting for the subject matter, as it is not distracting from the video content itself.
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Of course not, Nate.
You’re not to blame for a media product you only aim to share with us.
It was not my intention to start a heated debate about dubbing music to war videos.
I can see there are differences of opinion, some posters get the point. See my reply to Nilo Cruz.
You’re correct about videos with the right ambient/background music, those are not the target of my critique.
And I make good use of the mute button, as per your suggestion.
Cheers!
Lone Wolf
‘Killing is not a celebration. All life is sacred, no matter who or how justified their killing is. I’d have no problems killing nazis, for sure I won’t be singing rap or heavy metal trash while doing it.’
I’m afraid this viewpoint makes no sense to me. If you truly believe that all life is sacred then you shouldn’t kill at all, even at the cost of your own life. If you instead believe that you have no choice but to cross this fateful Rubicon, then it really doesn’t matter a jot whether you are singing or not. It seems a bit precious to me to make these kind of fine distinctions, when killing itself is such a major sin.
If this is a limited release and if there were other players and it seems the whole plot was potentially leaky. as far as security goes, then this may well be the cover story. One which leaves Obiden as the patsy.
Now then, who operates that way ? Patsies and projections and cover stories.
Perhaps our old friends the CIA, with layers of obfuscation and who would have the underwater expertise? Who has been doing this stuff to their enemies for yonks? Pipelines, docking facilities, you name it.
Who basically uses CIA as its puppet ?
Do they have an interest in this conflict ?
Monetarily AND territorially , of course they do.
They also NEVER show their hand. Been my suspicion from day one.
A new wrinkle
a new version of history?
Ukraine’s Zelensky admits he sabotaged Minsk peace deal with Russia
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/ukraine-zelensky-minsk-peace-russia/
Was Zelensky tired from his touring? Were his nostrils burning?
@ Hajduk on February 13, 2023 · at 9:50 am EST/EDT
I’m afraid this viewpoint makes no sense to me.
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Well, it makes sense it doesn’t make sense to you.
Real life is not as simple as your ideals of how life should be.
And it is difficult to make sense of POV that do not fit into your duality, because life is paradoxical.
Clearly, you’ve never been shot at by anyone in anger with intent to kill you, let alone be in a war setting.
In a war, those on the other side are there to kill the opponents, whoever they are, killing them is purely an act of self-defense.
All life is sacred, but…we cannot let ourselves killed on foolish beliefs.
Self-preservation is embedded in our DNA for a reason.
And self-preservation is the reason for Russia to be in Ukraine with the SMO.
Regardless, killing another human being, whether a nazi, a psychopath, or a criminal, is not a matter of celebration, either with music, or urinating on their bodies, as US soldiers have done in the Middle East. All human beings deserve respect, dead or alive, because all life is sacred.
Wanton killing is a whole another matter.
And that’s what Ukronazis do, and have been doing to Donbass for 8 years in a row. Killing men, women, and children, for no other reason than hate based on a twisted ideology of “superiority,” like the German nazis before them.
Those people have no mercy and compassion for others. They stopped being humans, to become psychopaths. They need to be killed to avoid the death of thousands of innocent people.
There are no metaphysical repercussions for killing human detritus, on this realm or the hereafter.
Hope that helps.
Lone Wolf
@Lone Wolf
Your so called ‘real life’ is a construct, just like my ideals. I make my reality follow my ideals just as your world seems to accord with your ‘real life’. I have been shot at in the past (by a psychopath who missed).
Thousands of Buddhist monks at Nalanda passively submitted to execution by Afghan raiders rather than cause any harm to living beings. It’s not my personal viewpoint, but it is a legitimate philosophy. In the same way, if devotees of the Hindu Goddess Kali were forced into warfare, and if they had no choice but to kill, then they could sing and dance in celebration and devotion to their Goddess of death and destruction.
There are always negative repercussions for killing, whether it is a mosquito, or a Nazi psychopath. Of course these repercussions are reduced a great deal when it is a matter of self defence, or when they are shared with an entire nation, as in the case of serving soldiers, but they are never removed entirely.
Best wishes to you, Hajduk.
@ Hajduk on February 13, 2023 · at 12:51 pm EST/EDT
Your so called ‘real life’ is a construct, just like my ideals. I make my reality follow my ideals just as your world seems to accord with your ‘real life’. I have been shot at in the past (by a psychopath who missed).
Thousands of Buddhist monks at Nalanda passively submitted to execution by Afghan raiders rather than cause any harm to living beings…
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https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/why-are-buddhists-in-myanmar-killing-rohingya-muslims/
Why are Buddhists in Myanmar killing Rohingya Muslims?
The Buddha was clear that committing violence, even in thought, takes us off the path of practice he taught. Acts of violence simply do not square with his teachings on karma and non-harming. The first of the five precepts, Buddhism’s set of basic ethical commitments, is a commitment not to kill. And one of the factors of the noble eightfold path at the heart of Buddhist practice, “right resolve,” involves giving up thoughts of ill-will and cruelty.
Moreover, the Buddha rejected all forms of racism and insisted that human beings should be judged only on the basis of their behavior. If you pass a negative judgment on someone’s behavior, the practice of loving kindness (metta) and the development of the “four sublime states” will allow you to view all beings with unlimited love, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity.
Thus, it would stand to reason that a group of people who call themselves Buddhists would never support racist rhetoric and violent persecution of another cultural or religious group. But that is exactly what has been taking place in Myanmar (formerly Burma), where the Buddhist Bamar majority has been carrying out a genocidal campaign against Rohingya Muslims as well as persecuting other minorities.
But because groups identifying as Buddhist are made up of ordinary human beings, it is unfortunately not surprising that some are deluded enough that they twist the teachings to justify violence—even murder. This has happened over the centuries in most other major world religions as well. What has taken place in Myanmar is a cautionary tale for all of us.
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A million people living as refugees in neighboring countries, thousands killed, maimed, tortured and sacrificed in the altar of the oh-so-pacifist “Buddhist” beliefs.
The crisis of the Rohingya brothers and sisters, is not different to the persecution of Russians in Ukraine, purely out of hate and racism, lead and orchestrated by Buddhist monks.
It might be just a so-called “construct” in your ideal world, not so for millions of people who are being persecuted by those who profess to follow the “noble eightfold path.”
Time to wake up, reality awaits.
Lone Wolf
@Lone Wolf
I’m afraid you’ve swallowed US propaganda hook, line and sinker.
‘Buddhist Bamar majority has been carrying out a genocidal campaign against Rohingya Muslims as well as persecuting other minorities’.
The ‘other minorities’ have around forty guerrilla armies, which mostly fund themselves through drugs, so the Tatmadaw have been attacking them one by one for several decades, in order to keep the state of Myanmar intact, which is their main purpose. In this regard they have been extremely ruthless with no regard for the rules of war, and no regard for human rights. The Bamar people have always been very warlike, but in fact this is more about a wider Asian culture; if you challenge the highest authority directly and disrespectfully then it will absolutely have to demonstrate the power that underlies its position, as happened at Tiananmen Square. So it doesn’t matter who you are, if you threaten Myanmar the Tatmadaw will always respond with extreme violence. The only reason why the completely brainwashed Aung San Suu Kyi is still alive is due to the Tatmadaw’s great respect for her legendary father.
As for the persecuted Rohingya, they are in fact a completely invented ethnicity. Why does India have a 3141km border fence with armed guards on its border with Bangladesh? The answer is that Bangladesh’s biggest export is really economic migrants. Rohingya is actually the word for Arakanese people in Bengali (think about it) and it cannot be found in any publications prior to 1945. So what it actually refers to are the tens of thousands of Bangladeshi squatters who have moved into the Burmese province of Arakan in the last two decades. Arakan does have an ancient Muslim minority, along with the rest of Myanmar, but of course they all speak Burmese. None of the so called Rohingya, who claim to be from Arakan, can speak a single word of Burmese.
Myanmar has a very long and porous border with the PRC, and it has considerable petrochemical reserves, but it has consistantly refused to allow any Western interference in its internal affairs. As a result Bangladeshi migrants suddenly starting appearing as heavily armed terrorists, demanding secession from Myanmar, and inflicting violence on any Arakanese farmers who put up resistance. The funding for these terrorist groups came from the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia. At the same time a global media campaign was launched to save the persecuted Rohingya. As soon as the Tatmadaw heard the word ‘secession’ they starting killing Bangladeshi migrants, but this has absolutely nothing to do with religion. In other parts of Myanmar they kill secessionist Christians and Buddhists with equal ruthlessness.
The only negative aspect is that some of the Bangladeshi terrorists deliberately murdered Buddhist monks so as result a small number of the Burmese clergy became openly xenophobic and anti-Muslim. The reason is that Burmese Buddhism is tied to Burma’s historical struggle for independence, much like the Orthodox Church in Serbia, so it is easily prone to ethnocentrism and demagoguery. Nevertheless there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour from Buddhist monks. Even though their group was quickly suppressed and they were only ever a few hundred in number they featured extensively in Western media over the course of many months, including on the front cover of Time magazine.
‘Time to wake up, reality awaits’.
The tragic reality is that this US fabricated narrative has completely concealed the real ongoing genocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh where the Buddhist Jumma people are being murdered, raped and displaced as a deliberate policy on the part of Bangladesh’s government and military.
‘The first of the five precepts, Buddhism’s set of basic ethical commitments, is a commitment not to kill’
Your short description of Buddhist philosophy is actually pretty good (although you rather ruin it later with your offensive fantasies). The fact is that there are as many varieties of Buddhism as there are varieties of Christianity, or indeed of any of the world religions. Tantric Buddhists have a somewhat different ethical structure, and historically there have been quite a few warlike Buddhists, including many of the Gurkhas, the Japanese Sohei monks, Shaolin Temple, many of the Japanese ninjas, and of course the Mongols. So the notion that Buddhism is universally gentle and peaceful isn’t entirely true.
‘…millions of people who are being persecuted by those who profess to follow the “noble eightfold path.”
That’s slightly rude and completely ill informed nonsense. Don’t believe everything you read in the Western papers, particularly when it concerns a country with oil and a border with China.
On rereading this commentary I realise that you have simply cut and pasted the Tricycle article (without clearly indicating that you were doing so). My apologies but I never read Tricycle, as it is an ultra-liberal Western mouthpiece that is pro-LGBT and anti-Asian Buddhist, and which represents a tiny group of wealthy American converts, a significant number of whom are ‘JewBus’ or Jewish Buddhists (whose views about Palestine can be questionable to say the least).
If you really wish to get ‘hot under the collar’ about genocide…
https://www.angelfire.com/ab/jumma/
Great article as always Pepe. You’d think the Greens (whether German or others) would be more concerned about the huge ecological impact of the Nord Stream attacks too, wouldn’t you? I’m sure they’d use the “break eggs to make an omelette” defence, if they were ever asked about it, which they won’t be
Excellent article by Pepe. Great critical Journalism, desprite being delivered by a legendary source.
What I react to mostly, is the absense of Perfidious Albion.
The UK, being the No.2 beneficiary of the Oil/Gas reserves in the North Sea, have comparable expertice to Norway in the field. Britan being a ‘has been’ in terms of a military, seems to have focused their resources towards intelligence and special operations.
It is reported that British SAS was involved in the blowing up of the Kerch bridge. Futhermore we know they were training Ukrainians in the use of submerisible drones, which was later used in the attack on Crimea.
The UK seems to be embedded in the US deep state, we have had f.i. characters like Fiona Hill serving on the NSA with a suspicious background in terms of loyalty (dual citizen), openly hostile to Trump and actually ending up testifying against him in the impeacment hearing.
Is it possible that the ‘deep throath’ source actually have loyalty to the UK ?
@ iR.47 on February 13, 2023 · at 2:02 pm EST/EDT
Is it possible that the ‘deep throath’ source actually have loyalty to the UK ?
Suspicions are also on the CIA, given they appear as the “rational” ones among the warmongering neo-zio-nazi “intel” crowd. I seriously doubt the UK was not involved, and if not, they were informed at every step, and were closely following the developments.
La Truss texted “It is done” to rabid dog Blinken, right after the explosion, which means she had prime time access to the network in charge of the operation. They have all the reasons you pointed out, and more. Their hate for Russia is visceral, and share their goal of isolating Russia from Europe, and in particular, from Germany.
Sy Hersh needs to tweak and twist his info around, not to give away his sources, which are many, across continents.
The truth has many layers in this plot.
Suffices to know, the Collective West did it.
Full stop.
Lone Wolf
Sullivan, Blinken, and Nuland are all of the same ideological-ethnic group as Poroshenko, Timoshenko, and Zelensky. What a coincidence. But for some reason everyone is saying that Americans bombed Nordstream. Would it not be just as true to say that Anglo-Zionists bombed Nordstream?
1) Biden having given the order to blow the Nord Stream pipes has de facto declared a war to Russia, an ennemy and to Gemany, an ally. He has done that without Congress approval. His action is illegal.
2)Himars’ target in Ukraine are under US’s control. When Himars are shooting at Hospitals and civilian targets, the US is becoming complice in war crimes.
3) Recruting terrorists in Syria to send them to Russia to commit crimes is also totally illegal and immoral.
4)Revelations made following Twitter’s acquisition by Elon Musk are showing FBI’s involvment along with the Democrats in crimes against US constitution.
Many americans are discovering that the US has become a rogue state and many are shocked.
I sympathize with them and hope that they will be able to clean the Augias stable.
Was Seymour Hersch leaked to by the CIA/MI6 for the purpose of creating context for another insider 9/11.
That is, people need to be reminded what the US/Brit did
and that Putin has good reason to do tit for tat.
Thus, another insider 9/11 would have context, “Putin did it for revenge”.
The problem with this theory is that the CIA mouthpieces (legacy media) are being mostly dead silent about Seymour Hersch’s reporting.
From Pepe @ Strategic Culture Foundation
Pepe digs deeper into
What’s left for all of us is to swim in a swamp crammed with derelict patsies, dodgy cover stories and intel debris.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/14/nord-stream-terror-attack-the-plot-thickens/
Nord Stream Terror Attack: The Plot Thickens
“…I have offered an initial approach, focused on the plentiful merits of a seemingly thorough report, but also noting some serious inconsistencies.
Old school Moscow-based foreign correspondent John Helmer has gone even further; and what he uncovered may be as incandescent as Sy Hersh’s own narrative.
The heart of the matter in Hersh’s report concerns attribution of responsibility for a de facto industrial terror attack. Surprisingly, no CIA; that falls straight on the toxic planning trio of Sullivan, Blinken and Nuland – neoliberal-cons part of the “Biden” combo. And the final green light comes from the Ultimate Decider: the senile, teleprompt-reading President himself. The Norwegians feature as minor helpers.
That poses the first serious problem: nowhere in his narrative Hersh refers to MI6, the Poles (government, Navy), the Danes, and even the German government…”
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Read on…the plot thickens…
Lone Wolf
PS: @ iR.47 on February 13, 2023 · at 2:02 pm EST/EDT, there are some answers to your questions re: UK’s role… which only create more questions.
Hersh put color into the obvious black and white drawing everybody with sense knew. He may have colored outside the lines in a few places, nobody’s perfect but the picture still remains, the US did it.