[…] life. Those who might doubt that the media could be so easily seduced need note the consequences of the Gary Webb ‘Dark Alliance’ series on the contra-CIA- cocaine story in the San Jose Mercury News. Having worked on this story for almost nine months, and witnessed numerous editors and journalists shy away from it, […]
[…] Britain. At least two significant armed revolutionary movements currently operate; and the country appears to have replaced Central America as the principal transhipment point for South American cocaine. The drug trade is often cited in connection with the spate of recent Mexican assassinations: from the cop gunned down on his doorstep to the Cardinal […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
[PDF file]: […] few students of the drug trade that Noriega’s downfall, like that of many bigger traffickers before and after, did nothing to hold back the rising tide of cocaine that flowed north from the Andean nations. What may be more surprising was Washington’s willingness to replace Noriega with civilian leaders who had an unambiguous (if […]
[PDF file]: […] accomplices Alvin Ross Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol were arrested by Miami police in 1978 with a large plastic bag of white powder which they identified as cocaine. (Branch and Propper p. 529). Miami police wished to hold the pair on drug charges, but the FBI intervened. In 1976 CIA Director George Bush and […]
[PDF file]: […] US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
[…] Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
[PDF file]: […] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
[…] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
[…] In the 1980s the CIA got permission from the US Attorney General in to allow contributors to the privately-funded war against the government of Nicaragua to import cocaine into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war […]
