And Consortium News ran a piece from Craig Murray, a regular contributor, who decried the need for Hersh to resort to self-publishing when the MSM refused to go after the Nord Stream story. In "Sy Hersh and The Way We Live Now," Murray begins by saying,
It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that Sy Hersh, arguably the greatest living journalist, cannot get this monumental revelation on the front of The Washington Post or The New York Times, but has to self-publish on the net.
We recall that the controversial Glenn Greenwald quit The Intercept, which he co-found, because they were wanting to "censor" his journalism -- specifically his intended 2020 October Surprise story about Biden family corruption. Murray continues with his piece by laying out -- with graphs -- just who benefitted monetarily from the explosion of the pipelines. Norway, most of all.
I have also followed the doings in Ukraine, from the 2016 DNC doings leading up to the Russian invasion last year here, here, and here. I think it's telling what Victoria Nuland stated, in 2014, according to one of her Wikipedia entries, drawn from a book: Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, "Following the Maidan Uprising of 2013, Nuland stated that the United States had 'invested' $5 billion to bring about a 'secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.'" What the US brought about is the miraculous rise of Volodymyr Zelensky, a former dance contestant and comic actor on TV, with zilch previous political experience, who rose because he was a grooming project for Ukrainian oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky.
The oligarch has been banned from entering the US by the State Department, due to his "significant role" in corruption in Ukrainian politics. According to a Daily Beast article, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said "he was also concerned about Kolomoisky's 'current and ongoing efforts' to 'undermine Ukraine's democratic processes and institutions.'" This is funny. Zelensky played a highschool teacher, in the hit series Servant of the People, who was outraged by the nations's corruption, and fired up so many fellow citizens that they elected the actor, Zelensky, leader of Servant of the People Party, president of Ukraine.
Deputy Prime Minister and man behind Zelensky, Mikhail Federov explains why it doesn't matter if Zelensky has any political savvy and what he can bring to the table. And yet this CIA asset is almost daily asking/pleading/demanding US billions -- and US jet fighters -- to defend its oligarchs against Russia (and, presumably, its oligarchs). Recall that the US totally understands that the economic sanctions placed on Russia and its oligarchs could well lead to regime change. Like Federov says, Zelensky has already "monetized and made "something out of nothing" to the tune of many billions.
It should also be remembered that the US policy of infiltrating various Russian infrastructure, including its grids and communication structure, with worms and malware are an act of war, too. Or, so it seems, according to a 2019 NYT article, "U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia's Power Grid," in which the authors strongly formally suggest, as many of us have long suspected, that the Internet is a literal battlefield, with all of the implications of that designation applied. The authors (David Sanger and Nicole Pertroth) tell us:
"the action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed new legal authorities, slipped into the military authorization bill passed by Congress last summer. The measure approved the routine conduct of "clandestine military activity" in cyberspace, to "deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyberactivities against the United States ["] Under the law, those actions can now be authorized by the defense secretary without special presidential approval ["] Because the new law defines the actions in cyberspace as akin to traditional military activity on the ground, in the air or at sea, no such briefing would be necessary, they added.
A similar authorization --without direct presidential approval -- was behind the Nord Stream sabotage, according to Hersh. Handy plausible deniability for any commander-in-chief up for re-election, should something go wrong.
By the way, where in the world is Cofer Black?
An Ed Snowden Coincidence
It has made me wonder for some time why Ed Snowden had only one Substack post of 2022. Not too long ago in an interview on unrelated matters, I asked JFK Assassination researcher Jefferson Morley to weigh in on Snowden's one post for the year -- his first since Christmas Eve 2021. Morley wise not to overspeculate mere thought that Snowden had a growing family, was in a difficult position, and needed to keep them safe by sticking to a regimen of tweets instead of analytical Substack blog entries. Fair enough. But it doesn't explain why he wrote that one piece, which stands out for its loneliness. And the subject of the one piece for the year is the CIA: "America's Open Wound:The CIA is not your friend." What follows is a well-written article on the Agency's history of subterfuge from blowing things up to mind control. Presumably it was written to address the 75th anniversary of the Agency's founding (New Yorker took stock of the CIA a month after Snowden's piece and could even be derived from it.) But now it seems an interesting coincidence that his blog piece was published just a week before the Nord Stream explosion. There have been no Snowden Substack pieces since. And it remains to see whether they'll be any other Hersh pieces.
And BTW, Ed, I love ya, man, but what am I paying you $5 a month for to subscribe to your Substack site if youintend to pony up one story a year?
Strange times.
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