IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK
What Seymour Hersh delivers
ZELENSKY'S 'BAD MOMENT' is radically controversial. I don’t know if he’s right, but when Seymour Hersh talks I listen. Everyone should. America still isn’t the land of our dreams, and there aren’t many giants like Sy Hersh (or Greg Palast) who expose the nightmares we continue to conjure up.
I believe it was the Iraq war that got a naïve populace snapped to attention about how America has operated on the world stage. We know about our transgressions here at home – the persecutions of Indians, of Jews, of Irish, of Blacks, and more. We have been working on that. But we were mostly unaware of America’s manipulations to get the world to work in our favor. When we gasped in horror at those discoveries you’d think we would have cleaned up our act, but Seymour Hersh doesn’t lack for new material.
Here’s another Seymour shocker: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline.
You can get on his mailing list if his sort of thing is your bailiwick, but since he doesn’t allow comments on what he writes and I’d like to engage with people who appreciate him, can we turn the comment section here into a Sy Hersh think tank?
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It continues to be mind boggling that anyone thinks that war and violence is winning:
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
“Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
What would be best for Ukraine? I'm so confused. How would you repair the damage these wars and hate have created? As far as Black Lives Matters and similar efforts, and people asking my they would loot their own neighborhoods, I once saw a preacher during the riots talking to the news and he said, "hurt people hurt things." That's worth paying attention to.