Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Articles by Seymour Hersh (17 total)
A war with no end in sight
The Iran war is testing the assumptions behind US and Israeli strategy, with Tehran’s capacity to withstand economic pressure and continue missile production raising political risks for both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
What the White House doesn't understand about Iran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are ruthless, but they are not irrational, reports Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh.
A $25 billion offer? Inside Trump’s push to end the Hormuz crisis
Reports from Israeli sources suggest Donald Trump is considering a multibillion-dollar payment to Iran to end the Strait of Hormuz blockade, exposing divisions within the US administration and tensions with Israel.
Killing for killing's sake in Gaza
Gaza has become a killing field—that is the view of a well-informed Israeli veteran who was an enthusiastic supporter of the initial Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. He believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the mastermind of the all-out retaliatory bombing and ground attack there, is now a contemporary Colonel Kurtz, the psychotic killer of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, the famed Vietnam War movie of 1979 based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. What began as a retaliatory war by the internationally revered Israel Defense Forces against a disciplined Hamas guerilla...
Biden’s last hurrah against Russia and Putin
Frustration escalates for the lame duck president.
Who is running the country?
Biden’s decline has been known to friends and insiders for months.
The pattern of Bibi's desperate proposals
What a twenty-five-year-old memo by Daniel Ellsberg says about the past failures of Lyndon Johnson and the current horrors of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The fantasy of an Iranian bomb
Iran has never had a nuclear bomb—why does Israel insist that it’s an imminent threat?
The Nord Stream Pipelines and the perils of containment
The sabotage in the Baltic Sea was the result of a long-standing US policy of driving a wedge between Russia and Western Europe.
Kissinger, me, and the lies of the master
‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.
‘Netanyahu is finished’
The Bibi doctrine—his belief that he could control Hamas—compromised Israeli security and has now begat a bloody war.
A year of lying about Nord Stream
The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
On Nord Stream anniversary, Ukraine war at a turning point
Tuesday 26 September is the anniversary of the Biden administration’s destruction of three of the four pipelines of Nord Stream 1 and 2. There is more I have to say about it, but it will have to wait. Why? Because the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the White House continuing to reject any talk of a ceasefire, is at a turning point.
Opera Buffa in Ukraine
As the war drags on, delusions mount, with no end, or victory, in sight.
My meeting with Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf
What the general told me about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the early days of the Obama administration.