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Seymour Hersh

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Pearls and Irritations

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The fall of Bashar Assad

12.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Seymour Hersh

Biden’s last hurrah against Russia and Putin

Frustration escalates for the the lame duck president. There is a scene early on in Nathanael West’s satirical 1933 novella Miss Lonelyhearts...

28.11.2024 30

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Who is running the country?

Biden’s decline has been known to friends and insiders for months. Readers of this column know that President Joe Biden’s drift into blankness...

30.06.2024 10

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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. ...

22.05.2024 40

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The fantasy of an Iranian bomb

Iran has never had a nuclear bomb—why does Israel insist that it’s an imminent threat? It remains a classic moment in United Nations history....

12.04.2024 10

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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. Thursday marks one...

07.02.2024 10

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Kissinger, me, and the lies of the master

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls. I left the New York Times in 1979, after many good stories and some...

10.12.2023 6

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