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Seymour Hersh
Personal blog · seymourhersh.substack.compolitics
Seymour Hersh's personal blog at seymourhersh.substack.com covers politics. Since 2023, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Seymour Hersh's Substack piece arguing the US destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, usually as a source or counterpoint to official accounts. Several commenters cite it as their main reference on the topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's worse than you think.
Most-linked posts?
- How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2023-02-08
- Seymour Hersh: The Crap on the Wall2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-16
- Seymour Hersh – Why Substack?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-08
What Hacker News says?
It's probable the US and possibly Norway did it under cover of BALTOPS 22. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the... Snopes only offers FUD but not a single contradiction or refutation of any of Sy Hersh's reporting or claims other than it boils down to "it relies on a single source". Sometimes, in secret operations, that's the reality. There exist genuine anonymous sources who cannot be reveal…
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on “Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke”Submitted A year of lying about Nord Stream as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSeymour Hersh published a detailed piece outlining his case that it was carried out by the US military with assistance from Norway (who have expertise in that part of the seabed), using the cover of a NATO naval exercise as partial cover: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the... I find it more credible that these were the actors involved. Biden wanted to end a future link between Germany and R…
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on “'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?”Submitted Seymour Hersh in a new report on Covid origins as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat's a very self-limiting viewpoint when a significant portion of warfare is deception, so by definition you're not going to get "all we know". For example, Seymour Hersh (renowned wartime investigative journalist), published a brief on US involvement: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Europe is locking itself in to US LNG”Submitted Seymour Hersh claims Ukraine is using American funds to buy fuel from Russia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBlowing up the Nordstream pipelines https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap”Submitted The Cover-Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Complete lunacy. Exactly. I was being sarcastic. Yet this is what passes as intelligence these days. After Sy Hersh's exposé on what happened to those pipelines [1], they had to come up with an alternative theory and that's the best they could do. This wouldn't pass the second reading of a B-movie plot. My point was that undersea cables and undersea pipes are now a "fair game" and in the future we will see these k…
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on “$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa”Submitted Seymour Hersh: The Crap on the Wall as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeymour Hersh came out and put together a fairly convincing argument. The guy who was right about checks notes : The My Lai Massacre Watergate Torture at Abu Ghraib Domestic Spying The secret bombing of Cambodia. But then people come out and go "nonono don't look at that, it was definitely these two guys on a yatch". https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Who Blew Up Nord Stream? Investigators Focus on Mysterious Passengers on a Yacht”Submitted Seymour Hersh – Why Substack? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd no mention of Sy Hersh's article detailing out the possibility of US involvement [1]. I understand this article is specifically about this new Andromeda boat "lead", but what happened to major "investigative" news outlets... investigating the possibilities? [1] https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Who Blew Up Nord Stream? Investigators Focus on Mysterious Passengers on a Yacht”Submitted How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the... The original post making the claims
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on “US bombed Nord Stream gas pipelines, claims investigative journalist Hersh”Submitted A conversation on current US politics with Thomas Frank as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAn interesting read on the topic https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Energy Firms Hacked in Largest Coordinated Attack on Denmark's Infrastructure”Submitted Why Substack? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Pro-Ukrainian Group Is that a tongue-in-cheek way of saying the US? Joking aside, it’s funny The NY Times brushed off this much more thorough and credible account from Seymour Hersch [1] because it “relied heavily on unnamed sources” (despite being corroborated in other ways) only to publish this article which deflects from the US, based entirely on - wait for it — unnamed sources in the US intelligence community.…
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on “Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines”>Oh, and Nord stream 2 was not the US. At least there's no credible proof or semblance of one. You have to be really lying to yourself to believe that. Look at the twinkle in bidens eye when he says it: https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8?t=82 This coupled with: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the... It's unmistakable. The US did it and everybody in Germany and Europe knows it. The US was meanwhile…
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on “2022 Letter”I admit I had no clue what it was about, but I was wondering what was significant about the age restricted video. I watched part of the video and it was interested what was said in the news conference in December and it also seems to point to the invasion could in a couple of months. His substack article is: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Tell HN: Hersh interview “age restricted” on YouTube”It was clearly the US https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Finnish Government to Make Announcement on Gas Pipeline Leak in Gulf of Finland”Sure, they blew up their own pipeline. Nevermind the Americans actually admitted to doing it, which amounts to a declaration of war on Europe conveniently ignored by everyone.[0] [0] https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “EU security officials observed Russian Navy ships in vicinity of Nord Stream”Okay so Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh is just a conspiracy theorist with this article where he brings all the receipts that the US blew it up? Where Biden, weeks earlier, literally said the USA was going to blow it up? https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
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on “Electricity Prices by Country”This is paywalled: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-crap-on-the-wall
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on “Seymour Hersh Responds to His Critics”
