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  • Barry Seal, the Dallas get-away plane, and the JFK assassination

    Barry Seal, the Dallas get-away plane, and the JFK assassination

    It’s July 1, 1972. The TV series Bewitched is airing its final episode, Attorney General John N. Mitchell is resigning as chairman of President Nixon’s re-election  committee, and Sammy Davis JR’s aptly-titled single “Candy Man” is moving smartly up the charts. (This is the second of two parts. Read the first part here.)

  • Barry Seal, the CIA camp in Lacombe, & the JFK Assassination

    Barry Seal, the CIA camp in Lacombe, & the JFK Assassination

    It was in the sun-drenched Albuquerque study of one of America’s most prominent historians—a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Book Award winner—that I first heard what I later came to think of as “The Question.”  

  • The NSA, Drug Trafficking, & the Crash of Cocaine2

    The NSA, Drug Trafficking, & the Crash of Cocaine2

    This will someday be remembered as the year when shocking new discoveries about the National Security Agency became an almost daily occurrence. But amid the steady drumbeat of revelations, the one I’ve been waiting for hasn’t yet surfaced: The NSA’s involvement in the global drug trade.

  • Six years on: The mysterious crash of Cocaine2

    Six years on: The mysterious crash of Cocaine2

    Six years ago this week an American-registered luxury jet, a Gulfstream II—later dubbed “Cocaine 2”—crashed just before dawn in the middle of the jungle in Mexico’s Yucatan carrying four tons of cocaine. The event, and its aftermath, changed forever an official narrative of the war on drugs which has for years been pushing the notion…

  • Up in Smoke? 24 Tons of Cocaine in “No Peek Burn Run”

      Its called a "burn run." When the government of Costa Rica asked for assistance in disposing of a huge stash of cocaine and other drugs they’d accumulated during the past two years worth of drug trafficking busts—in airports, in airplanes, and on the high seas—the US was only too willing to help. According to…

  • Who Killed Hugo Chavez?

    Venezuela is a country in mourning over their late president, Hugo Chavez. "The fight goes on! Chavez lives!" shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night. But even as  his flag-draped coffin floats over a sea of supporters on its way to the cemetery today, “conspiracy theories” continue…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane

    The owner of the Learjet  whose crash in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains killed popular singer Jenni Rivera is from a prominent family in Monterrey which supplied drug planes during the 1990’s to drug baron Amador Carrillo, known as “The Lord of the Skies” for flying tons of cocaine, often on Boeing 727’s, into the U.S.

  • Report: Launch of CIA ‘cocaine coup’ turned on Romney win

    For more than a year the CIA has been trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine a month from Ecuador to Chile for export on to Europe, according to recent credible media reports from Santiago, the Chilean capital. Proceeds from the 300 kilo-a-month business have been used to create a war-chest to finance a Cocaine Coup in…

  • Mitt Romney’s “Pinochet Moment”

    America's eyes are currently riveted on the twisted steel strewn around the site of the train wreck of plutocrat-turned politician Mitt Romney's campaign. But other news this week points up the fact that—while inept politicians representing the parasitic rich come and go—the one constant in our national civic life remains America's endless drug war. Like…