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Title: Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb, Maxine Waters ISBN: 1888363932 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55
Rating: 5
Summary: What is the CIA doing with OUR $30-Billion per Year?
Comment: Answer: Not keeping an eye on who is threatening the United States with nuclear weapons (India, Pakistan). Instead, the CIA has been protecting its "assets;" drug smugglers who brought cocaine into America's backyards through Los Angeles street gangs; according to Gary Webb. Not all of the drug money was wasted, however. Some of it trickled down to the Contras ... Ronald Reagan's so-called Freedom Fighters. Read Dark Alliance and weep for America being torn apart by the CIA. By the way, Gary Webb's reward for exposing these crimes against Americans? His career as a journalist was destroyed. Moral: exercise your First Amendment rights by writing the unflattering truth about the CIA and lose your livlihood (if not your life).
Rating: 5
Summary: TOP REPORTER PROFESSIONALLY ASSASSINATED FOR TELLING TRUTH
Comment: Although an expert in news gathering in Central and South America and a much decorated investigative reporter, San Jose Mercury News' Gary Webb was hung out to dry by his newspaper's editor. Why? Because he dared to document the details of the connections in the international cocaine trade between the Central Intelligence Agency, their drug dealing "assets," the Contras and Los Angeles street gangs.
Earlier, writers like Michael Levine and Laura Kavanau-Levine who published, "The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic" or Alfred W. McCoy who wrote "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade," seemed to have come through it unscathed. Perhaps the Central Intelligence Agency and their domestic propagandists allow historians to "get away with it. " That was then, but Gary Webb writes about now. Webb's serialized exposé in the San Jose Mercury News, where his book's title originated, caused such a public outcry that his reports simply couldn't be ignored. Indeed, when Webb's stories first broke one drug gang-infested Los Angeles community became so enraged that the then CIA Director was obliged to visit the public in a futile attempt to calm them and protect the "good name" of the CIA. He was virtually run out of town shown on national televison. But since that didn't work, the next best thing was to unleash the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times to attack and marginalize Webb's story.
As Webb points out in his book "Dark Alliance," in their campaign to margimnalize him, the so-called respectable newspapers took potshots at his technique of news gathering and questioned the reliability of his methods and sources. But none of the papers print that Webb's story WAS NOT TRUE! Under pressure from all sides, Webb's editor caved in and assigned him to cover obscure stories 150 miles away from his home. They assassinated Webb's professional career. He got the message, and not wishing to put his wife and children through any more stress, Webb left the newspaper business. His book details this process.
A man of principle, Webb says the price he paid to get the truth to the public was part of being an investigative journalist. He does not regret that he wrote this story. "Dark Alliance" is a very important book of our time for those who wish to understand how it is possible for tons of cocaine to flow weekly into the United States while the most powerful country on earth is unbelievably, seemingly unable to stop the flow. This in spite of spending billions of dollars on the so-called Drug War.
For those who wish to understand exactly how American society is being subverted by the cociane establishment they must read "Dark Alliance."
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrifying
Comment: How did this happen to Gary webb? A prize winning reporter,a middle of the road news reporter from a conservative stable backround suddenly becomes the pariah of the press? I read this book with great trepidition,seeing the JFK conspiracy folks running around ...well, i was surprised, shocked,horrified.Perhaps i shouldnt have been...Mr Webb ahs laid out, simply, forcibly a case so damning that most simply wont look.The case he sets forth is so damning infact, that if true, and I think it is, then we need to overhaul our entire system. The absurd "war on drugs'[which doesnt really exist,except in political newspeak]is shattered by Mr Webb in the first 100 pages. 3 administrations,and countless pols either ignored or knew what was happening. Oliver North comes off none too well, though he is an easy target, and not even close to one of the important folks here. This is a searing piece of journalism,and one wonders why My Webb has been consigned to the far left by the celebrated organs of media, THe NY TIMES, THE WASHINGTO POST and The LA TIMES?. When these 3 folks stand up to criticise at once, well, i smell soemthing...where is the uproar from the 'mainstream press' ?After all, I thought the war on drugs was a family values issue. One of the most disturbing books I have ever read.
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Title: The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen ISBN: 0922356807 Publisher: America West Pub Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Jeffrey St Clair ISBN: 1859842585 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Mafia, CIA and George Bush by Pete Brewton, Peter Brewton ISBN: 1561712035 Publisher: Pete Brewton Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall ISBN: 0520214498 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Dirty Truth, The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush by Rick Abraham ISBN: 0970519001 Publisher: Mainstream Publishers Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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