Tag: Barry Seal

  • ‘AMERICAN MADE’ LIES, SEX, & VIDEOTAPE

    ‘AMERICAN MADE’ LIES, SEX, & VIDEOTAPE

      It’s hard to credit anything about a movie whose ruthless Medellin Cartel Drug Lords wear powder-blue leisure suits. Still, when a “based on a true story” movie spreads egregious falsehoods about a man who will someday be of vital interest to future historians,  attention must be paid.

  • Barry Seal & AMERICAN MADE’S Cigar Store Indians

    Barry Seal & AMERICAN MADE’S Cigar Store Indians

    (Want to see why the new movie “based on a true story” AMERICAN MADE is an insult to America?   READ “Deep Watergate, a chapter from “Barry & the boys.’) The most interesting thing about the new movie ‘AMERICAN MADE’—assuming you’re immune to gape-jawed curiosity at an obviously-smitten director unspooling an $80 million love letter…

  • A True Story about Barry Seal & the CIA

    A True Story about Barry Seal & the CIA

      Speaking of the new movie “American Made” about Barry Seal and the CIA and drug trafficking… and we WERE, weren’t we? I mean, with all the MONEY rolling in– day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade– why would anyone ever talk about anything ELSE?

  • The Mystery in Medellin: Why was ‘American Made’ there?

    The Mystery in Medellin: Why was ‘American Made’ there?

    This is a story about a plane crash. Start here: Everybody in-country was tired, or sweaty, or both. “Swelter” is a word that acquires new meaning in a South American jungle. It was the last day of filming. Tom Cruise has been in-country for 20 sweaty days in a row. Everyone was anxious to get…

  • ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

    ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

      A new movie coming out in four weeks attempts to pull off a feat no other biopic from a major Hollywood studio ever has…   Called “American Made” and starring Tom Cruise as drug smuggler Barry Seal, the upcoming release has airbrushed out the very things that made its main character famous to begin…

  • AMERICAN-MADE DRECK

    AMERICAN-MADE DRECK

    A new movie coming out is supposed to be the true story of Barry Seal. It isn’t.

  • What is plagiarism?

    What is plagiarism?

    Have you ever noticed how the CIA never gives up, on certain things, even if there’s no chance they’re going to change anyone’s mind? How they’re still pushing the Oswald-acted-alone meme, for example, or the phony war on drugs?

  • Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine isn’t shy about trading on his year in Honduras as a Catholic missionary. Accepting the V.P. nomination, he said, “My faith  is my North Star for orienting my life.” He had gone to a Jesuit high school, he explained, with the motto “men for others.” It led him to volunteer as a missionary…

  • 2016 election decides who controls the drug trade

    2016 election decides who controls the drug trade

    In the Presidential Election of 2016, Republican and Democratic insiders are wrestling like two dogs over a bone over who controls the illegal drug trade. To the victor go the spoils. Who wins the election wins control of America’s vast drug bazaar, largest in the world, whose proceeds prop up lucky bankers and politicians lapping at…