Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] and ultimately to drug airlines and mob-controlled banks, is the story that I first explored in The War Conspiracy and again (with respect to the Contras) in Cocaine Politics….essentially the same lobbies and their milieus, with oil prominent at the overt level and mob and drug links at the deeper covert level, play recurring […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] republics and satellites.’ The table of contents and information on obtaining this is at < http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume20.htm > Gary Webb, the American journalist whose series on the CIA- cocaine links kicked off a major political storm (and got him fired), has placed his original articles at < http://home.attbi.com/~gary.webb/wsb/ index.html > www.nthposition.com is ‘An on-line magazine […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] 26 July 1984). All of which may well be true, but its credibility isn’t helped by the DEA also accusing the Nicaraguan government of involvement in the cocaine trade. The accusation is based on ‘evidence’ said to have been collected during continuing US interest in Robert Vesco, who DEA is apparently saying, helped finance […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Hussein has ‘bedded hundreds of women and slaughters any who fail to satisfy him’. Fed a general of his to a pack of dogs. Snorts the ‘purest cocaine and smokes heroin’. The reported death of Abu Nidal in August became the peg for two different pieces of disinformation. The first was in The Sunday […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] American population to overcome ‘the Vietnam syndrome’; getting proxies to do the killing for them; getting permission for dope dealers who contributed to the Contras to deal cocaine in America; and covertly selling arms to raise the money denied by Congress. As an after-thought attempts were made to elaborate a ‘doctrine’ for this activity […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] publications and reports (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html) include 1998 reports ‘regarding allegations (specifically in the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] is we who will control the (EM) spectrum. We know its value.’ Political Investigations http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/politics.html Series of articles from the San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] life. Those who might doubt that the media could be so easily seduced need note the consequences of the Gary Webb ‘Dark Alliance’ series on the contra-CIA- cocaine story in the San Jose Mercury News. Having worked on this story for almost nine months, and witnessed numerous editors and journalists shy away from it, […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] Britain. At least two significant armed revolutionary movements currently operate; and the country appears to have replaced Central America as the principal transhipment point for South American cocaine. The drug trade is often cited in connection with the spate of recent Mexican assassinations: from the cop gunned down on his doorstep to the Cardinal […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]