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DRUGS
A collaboration by two of the world's most respected news organizations reveals how the Drug Enforcement Administration's efforts to crack down on the opioid epidemic were derailed as the num…
In the Bronx, which lost more residents to drug overdoses last year than any other New York City borough, the heroin epidemic has latched on to a vulnerable population. The dramatic rise in opioid-re…
Is American Made CIA Propaganda? from Tom Secker on Vimeo .
There were 189,000 heroin users in the US in 2001, before the US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. By 2016 that number went up to 4,500,000 (2.5 million heroin addicts and 2 million casual users).Heroin …
For over a decade, agents with a New Orleans-based DEA task force sold drugs, intimidated informants and stole cash on the job with total impunity. According to the Advocate , Chad Scott, the former …
There's a great moment in the new History channel miniseries, America's War on Drugs , when a former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo explains why America's crusade to purge drugs from t…
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father “worked for the CIA.” In a new book, “Pablo Escobar In Fraganti,” Escobar, who lives under …
This never-ending war has been a phony contest, an arm wrestle between two arms of the US state: the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Routinely, the DEA’s atte…
The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy … says that more than 60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American ma…
We have H.P. Albarelli, Jr. with us to talk about Biological Warfare, the CIA's experimentation with LSD and the murder of microbiologist Dr. Frank Olson. We talk about the U.S. army and Frank Ol…
Albarelli spent more than a decade sifting through more than 100,000 pages of government documents and his most startling chestnut might be his claim that the intelligence community conducted aerosol…
by Michelle Alexander In the "era of colorblindness" there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have "moved beyond" race. Here are a few fa…
Like its progeny the global war on terror, the US war on drugs is a war that its antagonists never want to end since its termination would mean an end to their profit and status. Indeed, an end to …
After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are be…
The Navy tested mescaline as part of its 1947–53 Project CHATTER. MK-ULTRA was first organized in 1949 by Richard Helms under the direction of Allen Dulles as Project BLUEBIRD. Two years later, it …
The wave of evil washes not only the financial-industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial complex, and predatory executives at AIG, Citibank, Halliburton, Blackwater…
