From her debut solo album, "Hips and Makers"
Hersh says that the Bush administration is funnelling money to various Sunni groups, some of whom are affiliated to al Qaeda.
The great Kristin Hersh with one of her finest songs.
In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.
Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had sh...
One of America's premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the military's treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security m...
Sy Hersh and Faiz Shakir. First reported here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/31/cheney-proposal-for-iran-war/
Video clip from 9/11: Press For Truth. This features Seymour Hersh discussing in mainstream television news appearances how (Bush and heads of) the U.S. Military purposely let Osama Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and flee across the border into Pakistan. And how they purposely let thousands of other Al 'Qaeda fighters, and possibly som...
CNN's Situation Room, December 4, 2007
Kristin Hersh talking with The Current's Steve Seel about the "chaotic" creation of her latest disc "Learn to Sing Like a Star." This is her seventh release as a solo artist. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/02/08/kristin_hersh/
SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 CNN WOLF BLITZER
Video for the single In Shock from the upcoming album Learn To Sing Like A Star (coming out on January 22nd). Directed and edited by Orrin Andersson. Official website www.throwingmusic.com, also see www.4ad.com/kristinhersh and myspace.com/kristinhersh
1994 video for the Strings EP version of 'A Loon', featuring Martin McCarrick on cello. filmed in Amsterdam and directed by David B. Kelley.
Al Jazeera's Ghida Fakhry talks to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article in New Yorker magazine, claiming that US congressional leaders have agreed to a presidential request for up to $400 million in funding for covert operations against Iran.
The investigative journalist from the New Yorker talks to Bill Maher on Real Time from 3/2/07
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Youtube "Learn to Sing Like a Star" Contest:
Attention all Kristin Hersh fans. This is your chance to show and spread your love for Kristin Hersh by sending in a 30-45 second clip of them singing one of Kristin's songs! It can be anything you want, lip synching, dancing, or even a full fledged music video! Make it as creative as you would like. Wa...
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh talks to Democracy Now about his explosive new article in the New Yorker Magazine. Hersh reports that John Negroponte's decision to resign as National Intelligence Director was made in part because of the Bush administration's covert actions including the funding of radical Sunni groups - some with strong ideolo...
Kristin Hersh has never had much for a career path, but the evolution of her music has always worked itself out. From the seminal group Throwing Muses to the D.I.Y. punk of Fifty Foot Wave, her continued exploration of solo-acoustic work seems like a logical step in as much as everything else she's done. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web...
Kristin Hersh live at Borders in Atlanta. Her PA went out so she is truly singing unassisted.
Before the song starts she tells the story of a performance in Spain where she fixed her eye on one of the young people hired to be in the audience...
Kristin's stories between songs are well known and this is no exception!
Funnily enough she tells the ...
SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 CNN WOLF BLITZER
Beautiful song performed with the McCarricks on strings from her album "Sunny Border Blue". Check out http://www.throwingmusic.com for tour details.
This is an interview with Kristin Hersh, solo performer and member of the bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. This interview is taken from the full-length documentary, Rock N Roll Mamas. This film is still in production.
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Fatah-al-Islam ( in reality ) is a creation of the "Welch Club". This club is named for its godfather David Welch - the current assistant to the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He is the "point man" for the Bush administration and is guided by Eliot Abrams.
Key Lebanese members of the Welch Club ( aka: the "Club" ) include:
The Lebanese ci...
Kristin Hersh performs "Your dirty answer" at the Fopp store in London. check out her new album and all the other Kristin goodness at throwingmusic.com.
flawless tv performance
Kristin Hersh performing Summer Salt and telling the parrot lady story live at The Corner Hotel, Richmond on October 11 2007
Richard Murphy, Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia / Council on Foreign Relations /// Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker (from Washington, DC) /// Ron Browstein, The Los Angeles Times (from Washington, DC); Senator Evan Bayh, (D) Indiana (from Washington, DC)
From the Fopp instore performance, which was presenting mainly songs from her beautiful new CD, her is the first of her older songs that she performed with the McCarricks on strings.
Seymour Hersh on CNN's Late Edition, June 29, 2008
Kristin Hersh on her 2001 tour supporting her album Sunny Border Blue. This is 37 hours. The mike wasn't working so you're going to get Kristin raw here.
Recorded March 20, 2001 at Borders Peachtree St., Atlanta GA.
nice rendition of a song from her '98 album "Strange Angels".
