Gary Webb’s series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, reignited the issue of the Agency’s connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly […]

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John Loftus says, “I was a young lawyer working for the Attorney General in Washington when President Carter asked the Justice Department to set up a Nazi-hunting unit. I volunteered.” Loftus vividly recalls, “I came across some files I wasn’t supposed to see: the classified records of the Holocaust.” The files revealed that Washington knew […]

There’s one global economic model that creates wealth for the few, at the expense of the many. In that model, a country’s resources and the labor of its people exist to deliver products with the lowest possible cost and the highest possible profit. That profit goes into the pockets of corporate executives and shareholders. The […]