Tag: gary webb
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corbett report: episode204 – a brief history of cia drug running
from corbett report: From the Golden Triangle to the Golden Crescent, from its early origins to it current operations, the CIA has long been immersed in the murky underworld of drug trafficking. Join us this week as we dig up some of the skulls and bones in the CIA’s closet in Burma, Laos, Afghanistan, Mexico…
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‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross: Reagan/Bush let Nicaragua Drugs Flow Free to US
“Freeway” Ricky Ross, a former US street legend, who as a drug dealer was once responsible for flooding California’s streets with most of its hard drugs, spoke with RT about his activism against drugs.
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corbett report: episode117 – requiem for the suicided: gary webb
from corbett report: This week we meet the man who knew the secrets of the CIA’s Dark Alliance. From the jungles of Nicaragua to the mean streets of south-central LA, Gary Webb’s groundbreaking journalism uncovered a scandal so huge that the story could not be allowed to continue. Help us honour the memory of this…
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we all failed gary webb: dark alliance ‘suicide’ 4yrs later
from consortium news: Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record – he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s. And each time I’ve…

