U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM as Part of a Deal Over Lockerbie

America seems to be getting skittish about its dirty work in Libya and how the greatest cover up since JKF – The Lockerbie bombing – might be coming apart at the seams. Like Afghanistan, Libya, a country rich in oil wealth and underpopulated, is heading towards being branded another major NATO f***-up as analysts worry…

Drugs Flood Europe Through the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Vladimir Platov According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), the volume of drug consumption in EU countries has increased markedly this year. And this is despite the fact that in Europe, as a result of the activities of law enforcement agencies, hundreds of illegal drug laboratories are being liquidated, and…

Why is the Lockerbie Lie of Libya’s Involvement Still Being Kept Alive Today?

Martin Jay Pan Am Flight 103 If the American public knew that its own government, directed by Ronald Reagan, had covered up its own dirty work so as to stop the truth from coming out – that it was the CIA allowing terrorists to send drugs to America via U.S. airlines and protected by CIA…

Panama Exports Over 40 Tons of Cocaine to the USA for “Destruction”

Panama is exporting 41.28 tons of cocaine to the United States for its "destruction", under the control of the DEA. Authorities say the move is intended to avoid harms to the environment. Minister of Public Security, Juan Manuel Pino: pic.twitter.com/kg22lOsr5i — Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) August 30, 2022 The more than forty ton cocaine shipment to…

CIA, NATO and the Great Heroin Coup

Cynthia Chung How Miami Became the Center of International Fascism and the Murder of President Kennedy We should be seeing a picture that has painted NATO/CIA/Italian-American Mafia/Cuban exiles/and fascists including Nazis all working for the same apparatus and essentially the same goal: to overthrow democratically elected leaders and replace them with dictators and fascist right-wing…

Ukraine: Partisans and Collaborators

Apparatchik As a result of the present confrontation in Ukraine, much discussion has taken place about the possibility of an insurgency against Russian forces. At the same time, the extent of far-right entanglement with the post-Euromaidan Ukrainian government, driven in part by Putin’s stated intention of “de-nazification”, has been renewed as a topic of interest….

Was America’s Longest War for Opium, Oil and Propping up the Stock Market?

John Potash Soldiers patrol opium fields in Afghanistan. [Source: bbc.com] On September 11, 2001—a day that will live in infamy in U.S. history—hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City and one side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., which experienced destruction. President George W. Bush’s administration started a war in Afghanistan…

Mexican President AMLO Pleads with Biden to End Failed Trillion Dollar “War on Drugs”

Jeremy Kuzmarov In June 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) told U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Mexico City that he wanted to end military cooperation in fighting drug trafficking and to instead promote economic development. “We don’t want military cooperation,” he said, “we don’t want it to be like it was before when they…

Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State

Alan Macleod AFGHANISTAN — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third…

The Power of Narco-Trafficking in Mexico

Adalberto Santana Mexican Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos with then-U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Mexico City, 2017 U.S. judicial system policies have led to the prosecution of two prominent figures from Mexico’s past governments in separate trials on charges of serving the drug trade. One of them has been Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public…

Origin and Current Status of Operation Condor

Fabián Escalante Font The National Security Doctrine of the United States, sustained and fed by the Monroe doctrine and other fascist concepts (Kissinger) were the fathers of Operation Condor, whose name, according to the Cuban-born terrorist Antonio Veciana, comes from the plot -so called by the CIA- to assassinate Fidel Castro on the occasion of…

A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies

Alexander Aviña The U.S. Coast Guard offloads seized cocaine in Miami Beach, 2014 (Photo by Sabrina Laberdesque/Wikimedia) Recent narco-terrorism charges against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro form part of a longer history of U.S. empire using drugs to advance geopolitical goals. On March 26, U.S. attorney general William Barr announced new “narco-terorrism” charges against president Nicolás…

Honduras: The Farce of the War on Drugs and Narco-Democracy

Since the 2009 coup d’état, Honduras has been turned into a political laboratory, making it possible to condense the history of the last decade into a narcocorrido where the blue and red car gangs dedicated themselves to drug trafficking and the looting of the country; all under the discreet gaze and complicity of the Obama…

Honduras: Drug Trafficking in the Geopolitics of Capital

Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla It is no secret that the governments of the United States have used drug trafficking to their own country as a means of carrying out their imperial policies. From the Iran-Contras case to the uncontrolled growth of poppy production in Afghanistan, the US military and intelligence used this deadly business as…

Decriminalizing the Drug War? Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition

Alfred W. McCoy We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social justice, and border security, there is, however, one overlooked issue that should be at the top of everyone’s agenda, from Democratic Socialists to libertarian Republicans: America’s longest…

Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline

Pepe Escobar The Persian Gulf harbors an array of extremely compromising secrets. Near the top is the Afghan heroin ratline – with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) positioned as the golden node of a transnational, trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation. In this 21st century Opium War, crops harvested in Afghanistan are essentially feeding the heroin…

Deep State in Haiti: Assassinations and the Quiet Genocide of the Poor

Editorial Comment: The original article published yesterday (and intact with links below) was in an email from Èzili Dantò. Today’s update is taken from her article which appears on her website at this link. Both will remain. A.V. The deep state creates a script for the unsuspecting public to play out. They rule through fear…

Deep Politics: Iran-Contra, WACL and World War III

The following is an interview with Hugo Turner, a researcher with a passion for studying the covert operations of the 70’s and 80’s. We discussed his four part series on the history of the Iran-contra scandal. They can be found at his blog here: part I, part II, part III, part IV. Our Hidden History…