[PDF file]: […] return.’116 * 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]: […] for exploitation. Additionally, any ‘wall’ that might be raised along the remaining undefended southern border would play into the hands of the most organised and technically able drugs cartels. By this I mean the gangs that already have tunnels that run underneath the border at multiple urban locations all along the frontier.5 In the […]
[…] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]
[PDF file]: […] many of the issues that Frum had for years been urging the Republican Party to take onboard, ‘immigration . . . middle class incomes . . . drugs’. Saldin and Teles quote Frum’s telling reply: ‘Yeah, but the reason I’ve been talking about those things . . . is that I sensed something like […]
[…] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]
