Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the way for ‘a deluge of corruption that engulfed Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. Dark money cascaded over the country’. What fuelled this was not only the drugs trade but also the development funds that the Obama administration poured into the country, in an attempt to win the war. There was a lot of […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, weapons or money itself. Like the KMT, Israel enjoys the more or less unconditional support of the US regime, especially its intelligence community, which maintains close […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. Pitzer was present at the autopsy of President Kennedy. […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] the clubs!’ – or generally thrashing the culture – ‘Sharp street kids love Acid music. . . . but they’re saying a resounding NO to the daft drugs that plague the scene.’ Bushell and Sky then proceeded to show exactly how out of touch they were with the phenomenon by providing a guide to […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] mob hit. Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End […]