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America’s Long Slow Fade to Black
Nastya Rybka has entered the maws of hell. “They were discussing elections,” Nastya Rybka said. “Deripaska had a plan about elections.” “If America gives me protection, I will tell everything I know,” she told reporters in Thailand. “I am afraid to go back to Russia. Some strange things can happen.” She was wasting her…
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The Lie at the Heart of the Trial of El Chapo Guzman
The lie at the heart of the trial of El Chapo Guzman is one familiar to every American who understands what happened to this country during Prohibition: Men and women are human. They can be bought, bribed, threatened or cajoled. It is the basis of organized crime. Getting the ‘go-ahead’ from Marta Fernando…
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THE SECRET TRIAL OF ‘EL CHAPO’ GUZMAN
The government’s star witness in the trial of El Chapo Guzman was trying to buy information from a man who was instrumental in the purchase of the DC-9 — dubbed “Cocaine One” for its resemblance to official U.S. government planes — busted in Mexico in April of 2006 carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine. Fernando Blengio Cesena, alias…
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Jerome Corsi: RussiaGate’s ‘Little Big Man’
Before there was Jesus, there was John the Baptist. And before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi. Jerome Corsi briefly made news last week when he launched a salvo in a well-coordinated Trumpland counterattack, rejecting a plea deal with the the Special Counsel’s office, and calling Mueller’s team ‘thugs.’ Even without the overheated…
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I Come Back with News
To my readers Due to a protracted illness in the family, I’ve been inactive here for almost nine months. The break allowed me to collect my thoughts. I come back with news. Daniel Hopsicker
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A Prime Minister, a Drug Pilot, an Oligarch, & RussiaGate
(WARNING: A long read…but worth it) RussiaGate is all about the Mob, says the current meme. Not ‘The’ Mob, or just one Mob, but a gamut of players— Russian, American, British, Israeli, Saudi—belonging to a global criminal network connecting the forces of transnational organized crime across nation-states, time-zones, and continents. ‘Transnational organized crime’ doesn’t have…
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OLEG THE OLIGARCH
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THE OLIVER NORTH OF RUSSIAGATE
Oleg Deripaska is the Oliver North of Russiagate. He’s the one Russian oligarch whose name you need to know. Oleg The Oligarch. Vladimir Putin’s go-to guy. A brutal history, a mysterious past Where Putin is concerned, Deripaska will do anything to please. He’s a big-time player in Russiagate. And the millions he paid out to Paul…