[PDF file]: […] that inspired the film makes far more sense. and accurate meanings hidden in the text, but to identify some areas designed to promote misdirection and erroneous speculation. Drugs and the psychocivilised society Comment on A Clockwork Orange returns again and again to the theme of violence, that of the hooligan and that of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Story,1 Stephen Bentley writes of his role in the elite police squad which in 1977 took down the British LSD production and distribution networks in ‘the biggest drugs bust in history’. More recently Mr Bentley has been writing ‘true crime and crime fiction’ and he has a blog which is mostly used to promote […]
[PDF file]: […] on the Spahn ranch. LASO had been watching the Family for some weeks, but the raid had nothing to do with murders; they were looking for firearms, drugs and stolen property, which they found aplenty. Given that Manson and several of his followers were also in clear violation of their parole terms, they could […]
[PDF file]: […] in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991); Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) 1 A good example is the still-murky relationship between Florida lawyer and CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] with boozed-up and aggressive attendees – good.60 The main take I have got from reading the files is the Government’s actual (as opposed to public) attitude to drugs use at such events: ‘The main problem with acid house parties is the nuisance caused by the noise. Drugs are not the main issue.’61 That would […]
[PDF file]: […] German scientists and others coming over to the Allied side now that hostilities had ceased. A section three-quarters of the way through the book is headed ‘Truth Drugs’ and runs to some eleven pages. Schmidt asserts that Britain’s exploration of ‘truth drugs’ seems to have ‘partly’ come from the United States with a visit […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. Pitzer was present at the autopsy of President Kennedy. […]
[…] This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar […]
[PDF file]: […] the way for ‘a deluge of corruption that engulfed Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. Dark money cascaded over the country’. What fuelled this was not only the drugs trade but also the development funds that the Obama administration poured into the country, in an attempt to win the war. There was a lot of […]
