[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the clubs!’ – or generally thrashing the culture – ‘Sharp street kids love Acid music. . . . but they’re saying a resounding NO to the daft drugs that plague the scene.’ Bushell and Sky then proceeded to show exactly how out of touch they were with the phenomenon by providing a guide to […]
[PDF file]: […] by international law and can kill whomever it likes is provided by the blowing-up of boats in the Caribbean on the claimed suspicion that they were smuggling drugs; not stopping and searching them and arresting the crew if drugs were found, but blowing them up regardless. On 2 September 2025, Trump boasted to a […]
[PDF file]: […] the police called it an act of ‘good faith’. The next day he was taken to Leeds. Under further interrogation, under stress, possibly under the influence of drugs, with threats by the police to charge his wife and frame his oldest son, he signed blank sheets of paper, on which his ‘confessions’ were later […]
[PDF file]: […] For the Right, the psychedelic counter-culture undermined ‘traditional values’ such as patriarchy, nationalism and subservience to authority; for elements of the Left, the 1960s hedonism of ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll’ served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, […]
[…] 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. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine […]
[PDF file]: […] mob hit. Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End […]
[PDF file]: […] what can be usefully characterised as a gangster approach to international relations. Initially the best demonstration of this was the sinking of boats supposedly suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean that began in early September 2025. Instead of these boats being intercepted, searched for drugs and the crew arrested, they were attacked, sunk […]
