Source – madcowprod.com “…There are as-yet unnamed Americans who make more money from the drug trade than two dozen Mexican drug lords with bandoliers strapped crossways across their bare chests could ever even think about making. They’re mostly called bankers…In my day job, I mostly covered drug trafficking. And I had the same goal journalist Gary Webb…
Source – ericmargolis.com “…With high intensity US media support and British machinations, the US neocons overthrew the pro-Moscow regime in Kiev and brought in the current US ‘guided’ regime of President Zelensky, a former TV actor. The powerful oligarchs and criminal dons who actually ran pre-1991 Ukraine were kept in the wings by their American benefactors. Having…
Source – thestar.com “…“We prefer to tell ourselves that women are coerced and co-opted into committing crimes,” Bonello writes. “The existence of bad, evil, deviant women who have the audacity to step out of the accepted gender roles of mothers, caretakers, homemakers, and nurturers to (also) smuggle and sell drugs threatens the very basis on…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…The significance of Miami in the netherworld of international fascism remains one of America’s better kept secrets. Its tendrils stretched across the Atlantic to the Aginter operation, originally in Lisbon, and Skorzeny quietly sitting in Madrid at the centre of his arms smuggling web. To Kruger, the Miami-Lisbon-Madrid-Rome axis was the logical…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “…The “Secret Team” would start off during World War 2 in OSS. Lucien Conein, Howard Hunt, Mitch WerBell and Paul Helliwell would all serve with the OSS in China, deeply involved with the drug-dealing KMT guerrillas. Each would go onto play a fascinating and sinister role in America’s covert history” Beyond…
Source – madcowprod.com – “…I was contacted by a disgruntled former Iran Contra bagman who had worked for Oliver North…“Iran Contra went far beyond a simple operation to finance the 50,000-man Contra army,” retired Navy Lt. Commander Al Martin told me. “It created an “intricate web of state-sponsored fraud, as well as trafficking in narcotics…
Source – madcowprod.com “…Mr. D” is the nickname of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch. He gave eighteen million dollars to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s first campaign manager…He was Vladimir Putin’s Swiss Army knife. And he was the Oliver North of RussiaGate…Was RussiaGate a hoax? Or is Donald Trump just a gifted liar?, Maybe reserve judgment…
Source – zerohedge.com “…The hallmark of any effective army is its ability to control terrain. The cartel armies have done that by co-opting the gangs of the U.S. and operate the world’s largest crime syndicate complete with narco distribution hubs throughout the U.S. .. In Mexico they cordon cities and run roadblocks to collect information…
Source – educationforum.ipbhost.com “…Texas Gov. George W. Bush was literally being flown around in what had been the favorite plane of the murdered CIA asset and drug runner Barry Seal…on the exact same day (2/19/86) Barry Seal was murdered in Baton Rouge, his mistress “Barbara” was also murdered in Miami; two other men also affiliated…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…When Falcon was arrested in 1975 he said he was working for the CIA and that part of his drug proceeds went to fund Latin American counter-revolutionary groups. FBI documents revealed that the CIA had been trying to destabilize the government of Mexican President Luis Echevarria due to his nationalistic stance…
Source – thenation.com – “…If Fentanyl, Inc. does have a primary antagonist, it’s the Chinese government. Virtually all of the fentanyls that have flooded the United States in recent years have been manufactured in China, where many NPS are legal, an arrangement that allows legitimate businesses to churn them out on a scale inconceivable to…
Source – madcowprod.com – “…Briefly, it involves a lear jet belonging to Wally Hilliard, owner of the infamous Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice Florida which taught Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi to fly, that was busted at Orlando Executive Airport on July 22 2000, three weeks after Atta began flight lessons at his school, carrying 43 lbs of…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…Remember Oliver North and the Contras? The pattern in Kosovo is similar to other CIA covert operations in Central America, Haiti and Afghanistan where “freedom fighters” were financed through the laundering of drug money. Since the onslaught of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies have developed a complex relationship to the…
Source – asiatimes.com “…Li hit on a better way to address a problem that has long bedeviled the world’s drug lords: how to turn the mountains of grimy twenties and hundreds amassed on US streets into legitimate fortunes they can spend on yachts, mansions, weapons, technology – and bribes to police and politicians” Chinese American…
Source – businessinsider.com ‘…Amado was a skilled smuggler. He was also a brilliant manager with a head for politics, and he built a vast network of street enforcers, informants in every agency of Mexican law enforcement and military, and connections to powerful friends capable of easily quashing the political will to arrest him…By the mid-1990s,…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “..The tactic of secret agreements…The period when the relationship between the DEA and Sinaloa was supposed to have been the closest, between 2006 and 2012, saw a major surge of violence in Mexico, and was the time when the Sinaloa cartel rose significantly in prominence” SM: ..Interestingly, Whitey Bulger, notorious Boston…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com – “…Secrecy dominates our society; secrecy dominates our culture. It dominates the world and especially it dominates us through the secret of how we’re dominated and none of that is ever revealed. And if it was to be revealed, and we were all to understand how the CIA operates and how it…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…By the end of the 18th century, the monopoly of opium exploitation grown in Bengal with England’s approval has been granted to the Company of West Indies, an association that was dependent directly on the British crown and in which Elihu Yale had been involved….Samuel Russell,…was a major figure in the…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “….The Atlantic slave trade, colonial drug trafficking constitutes a crime against humanity….In 1877, Cecil Rhodes put forth a “secret project” which consisted in integrating the British and US empires into a single “White Supremacist” Anglo-Saxon Empire: “I contend that we are the finest race in the world … Just fancy those parts that are…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…Two weeks ago, CIA Director Leon Panetta told the press the CIA had not been able to positively confirm any specific information on Osama bin Laden since “late 2000.” Interviews with high ranking military and intelligence officials, some at the highest levels, have confirmed that all evidence lends toward Osama bin Laden’s…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…The Vietnam War provided further cover for the CIA to import opium from the Golden Triangle that wound up addicting U.S. troops and countless other Americans. Within five to ten years of ending the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s, the CIA transferred this kind of operation to Afghanistan, the site of the…
Source – ordoabchao.ca “…Willoughby’s “old boys” were a vastly different breed from the old-school tie, Ivy League crowd who ran the CIA. Their enmity went back to a battle for hegemony between Military Intelligence and the OSS [the CIA] during World War II. While the CIA’s power base expanded, the MacArthur-Willoughby’s team’s very existence was…
Source – madcowprod.com “…Cocaine may not be in the news anymore, the way it was during the contra cocaine-fueled 1980’s, or the crack epidemic in the ‘90’s, but it is never far from front of mind by the—let’s call them “movers” and “shakers”—worldwide…Transnational organized crime is a 10-story high container ship more than three football…
Source – yesmagazine.org ‘…In the following months, the large Ortega family would scatter across much of the North American continent. Some dodged border police in the United States while others faced narco cartels back home. A grinding U.S. judicial system utterly foreign to them would further split up the family, moving two of the sons…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…While organized crime did its thing, “The CIA looked the other way – allowing over $100 million a year in illicit drugs to flow through Havana into the U.S. It was an arrangement similar to all the rest they’d made. The CIA received 10% of the take on the side of…
Source – gospanews.net “…There is no wrong murder, up to now, within Cosa Nostra,” said Falcone, a few months after the attack on the Addaura was foiled….It highlights the intuition of the magistrate victim of the bomb attack in relation to the role of those people called to protect the men of the state fighting…
Source – strategic-culture.org ‘…In this series we have seen a picture that has painted NATO, the CIA, and fascists including outright 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 governments….profits of the narcotics trade are used in turn…
Source – youtube.com “…Awkwardly for the US, Noriega had been a major CIA asset for decades – even as they knew he was becoming massively embedded with the cartels flooding the streets of the US with coke. This is how US intelligence shielded Noriega, even as he trafficked cocaine and laundered cartel millions – and…
Source – lewrockwell.com “…The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin, includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe,…
Source – madcowprod.com “…“In Sarasota, there is an international Mob- to-Mob partnership which little resembles the “RussiaGate” straw man Trump successfully branded a “hoax” through constantly repeating the same phrases over and over…The massive Mob-led ($352 million) looting of pension funds in Portland, Oregon was a non-story almost everywhere. Hardly anyone know about it, even…
Source – bbc.com “…”We definitely have the characteristics of a narco-state,” confides Jan Struijs, chairman of the biggest Dutch police union. “Sure we’re not Mexico. We don’t have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money earned by organised crime, the parallel economy. Yes, we have a narco-state…One opinion poll suggested…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com ‘…The Miami New Times reported in 2012 that Prado, before joining the CIA, had been a hit man for an organized crime figure in south Florida in the 1970s and 1980s..when Wright researched the claim, he was stunned. Hard evidence showed a high-level spook specializing in counterterrorism was suspected by the Miami-Dade…
Source – madcowprod.com “…Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism….A New York Mob affiliate named Donald Trump made common cause with a Russian Mob Boss named Semion Mogilevich….On the U.S. side of the Russiagate equation were some of Oliver North’s traitorous Iran Contra-era cronies, as well as…
