These are the collected writings by Preston

Peet for Disinformation. All were published

between 1999 and 2001, (although nearly all

have dates indicating their later reposting

instead of their original publication). There

are an abundance of links to related

information following each report, enabling

the reader to further investigate each story for

themselves. Conspiracies, government and

corporate crime, culture, drugs,

all this and more can be found in this diverse

compilation.

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Drug War- An Interview With Dan Russell

"Nixon's 1970 Controlled Substances Act criminalized any herb or concentrate with a 'potential for abuse.' That 'potential' is defined by the general consensus of industrial nations that drugs are worth far more illegal than legal, and that without the international Inquisition their own internal fascism would be harder to justify, and finance."

Dan Russell wrote the passage above, with brutal clarity in his landmark book Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy (Camden, NY: Kalyx, 2000). Know a parent, friend or co-worker who believes in the War on Some Drugs with a patriotic and puritanical fervour? Buy them a copy of Russell's book.

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US Drug Running Capers

There is an ongoing Congressional investigation into the allegations raised in Gary Webb's August 1996 series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News, entitled 'Dark Alliance', that detailed the relationship between one crack kingpin in South Central Los Angeles and his CIA/Contra connected supplier. All across the country there were reports in many of the major mainstream newspapers that Webb was fanning the flames of black paranoia, that there was nothing to the story. But that was not the truth, far from it, which these so-called reporters, the nay-sayers and denigrators, should have realized had they known their history, or had they not been spouting an official Drug War propaganda line. A source inside the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has confirmed the continuing investigation. According to a letter that the committee sent to Mike Ruppert, founder of Crack the CIA Coalition, back in May 1999, the committee is in the final stages of evaluating the evidence that they have already received.

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Biological Warfare in New York City

Germ Warfare. The very phrase sends a shiver up the spine, invoking images of plague, open running sores, loss of civil order, chaos of the most extreme type. It is the nightmare stuff of numerous books, movies, and secretive government agencies lurking in hermetically sealed rooms inside government labs, plotting takeovers, and population control using the panic of unchecked, never-seen-before epidemics. New York City is a good case in point.

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The US, Kosovo, and Criminal Drug Cartels

The United States Government, the US military, and US Intelligence forces have a history of being involved with drug runners, killers, and dictators the whole world over. Laos, Panama, Afghanistan, Haiti, these are but a few of the places where the US has actively worked hand in glove with Drug Armies. But almost nowhere has this been as blatant, and at the same time been as suppressed in the mainstream media, than in Kosovo.

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Turning Cops Into Soldiers

Military styled attacks, utilizing all the trademark flashbang, battering ram, dynamic entry methods of the special forces, carried out on private homes, and citizens, is rapidly becoming more and more prevalent in America today. Unfortunately, these home invasions are not by hooded criminals, ruffians of the hooligan type, they are more often by the police themselves, all in the name of the Drug War.

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The Ad Campaign to Wash Your Brain

The Clinton Administration and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) are conducting a war on your mind and the way you think. By using 'social marketing' tactics, "a strategic, behavior change approach," they are aiming to program the population to think the way they desire it to. But evidence suggests that it may not be what you think they would like you to think.

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Colombian Viet Salvador

In the last three years Colombia has moved into the number one spot as the United States' premier cocaine supplier, and the number one supplier of heroin to the US Eastern Seaboard. This is despite an ever increasing anti-drug expenditure by the US Government over the same time. Initially he was speaking of a US$1 billion package, but now Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the US Drug Czar, wants to give another 'emergency aid' supplement of US$1 to US$2 billion to the Colombian National Police (CNP) and the Colombian military, over a three year period.

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PACT With the Devil

In a nightmarish scenario that conjures up memories of Nazi Germany circa 1930-40 and other supposedly 'civilized' Western nations that endured eugenics and sterilization crazes during the early Twentieth Century, there are individuals currently in the US who are being deemed dangerous - "mentally ill" - a threat to themselves and others, and who are therefore not entitled to the same Constitutional guarantees that "normals" enjoy. Mandated into involuntary medicatings, their doors are kicked in by hostile care workers, and they are given no chance to refuse treatment without risking severe, long-term involuntary incarceration inside a psychiatric hospital.

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No Pill for the Gulf War Ill

Did the US Government intentionally give 'Pyridostigmine Bromide' (PB) to nearly 250 000 US troops (and other Allied troops as well) because it was expected that Saddam Hussein would use the nerve agent 'Soman'? Or was it to test the long-term effects of this 'investigational new drug'? Did the FDA approve a waiver of the requirement for 'informed consent' because they knew it was dangerous to give to the troops, and wanted to avoid troublesome explanations, or to minimize the paper trail? How many of the myriad 'Gulf War Illnesses' (GWI) is PB responsible for?

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Is China Spying or Buying?

China is spying on the US, stealing its technology! This is a hot story in the press and for some politicians. This seems a rather archaic hysteria-generating tactic to get more money guaranteed to the Military-Industrial Complex for more heavy weaponry to out-destroy everyone else's big guns and missiles. Those big guns and missiles that corporations like Lockheed Martin are bragging about designing on prime-time television, equating their new fighter planes with "looking to the future." Especially when US, European, and Israeli governments and corporations have been selling China super-sophisticated technology for years.

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Mexico Mayhem

Mass graves that Authorities say have been recently uncovered on ranches owned by vicious drug gangs just South of the border are bringing to light a problem that must be faced. The United States has consistently re-certified Mexico as a cooperating partner in fighting the Drug War. This in spite of US law-enforcement officials' long-time knowledge of murder, corruption and drug trafficking regularly carried out by Mexican law enforcement and military agents.

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Still Killing After All These Years

Right wing, drug smuggling, anti-Castro exiles, based mainly in Miami, Florida, have worked at trying to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro for years, ever since right after he took power in 1959. Plots involving bombs, poisons, bullets, needles, diseases, the list of assassination attempts runs on for pages. The ends justified the means, whether it meant working with Mafia hit-men, or a variety of US government agents. Castro has repeatedly levelled charges accusing the US of harbouring known terrorists, even helping to finance and train them. While chilly US-Cuba relations seem to be to be in a state of thaw as the 20th Century draws to a close, there have been other instances in the past where overtures of peace were made behind the scenes to Cuba and Castro by US administrations, while simultaneously plans were under way to kill Castro. Castro has survived an estimated 600 assassination attempts.

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King's Killers Still at Large

On Wednesday December 8th 1999, a jury of six whites and six blacks in Tennessee's Shelby County District Court took three hours to find that Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered by conspiracy, not by a lone-nut assassin. But the US government will file no charges.

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Sexist Fundamentalist Army Growing Drugs (in

Afghanistan)

UN anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan seem to have enabled the opium cartels there to reap their largest poppy crop ever recorded, nearly doubling last year's haul. Rising from 2600 tons in 1998 to 4600 tons in 1999, according to the UN's International Drug Control Program, Afghanistan's poppy crop currently accounts for an astonishing 75% of opium produced globally, more than Laos, Thailand, and Burma (the legendary Golden Triangle).

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Nature's Destruction, Humanity's Extinction

Humanity is busy killing off the most important eco-systems on the planet at break-neck speed, ignoring all the warning signs, all the evidence of imminent self-destruction. We are choosing instead the short-term profits garnered by razing the rainforests and old growth forests around the world to the ground.

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The CIA Fights for the Right to Violate Human Rights

Former Central Intelligence Agency Director (1993-1995) James Woolsey revealed during an appearance on the Fox News 'Sunday' show (December 26th 1999) that the rules governing how the CIA recruits its foreign assets should be loosened, highlighting the current barring of hiring human rights abusers.

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Perception Management and Domestic Propaganda

Public opinion is heavily influenced by what the media reports. This has not escaped the notice of the CIA, who have been working actively to direct world opinion using global media outlets and reporters for decades.

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Betrayal of Public Trust

US officials in all branches of the Government have been working to pass more and more draconian laws that the common masses must abide by, or face stiff, repressive sanctions, enforced by machine-gun toting, flack-jacket wearing stormtroopers who selectively enforce the laws. Yet rumors, allegations, and evidence abound of misconduct, and even criminal behavior within the hallowed halls of the US Congress and Officialdom in general.

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Radiation is Your Friend?

The US government has conducted atomic and nuclear experiments on a large proportion of the military and civilian population within the United States, and elsewhere, and is responsible for many accidents as well. These are facts that cannot be disputed. The US government has even begun paying claims to victims of some official US nuclear policy.

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The First Native Americans Are Still Here

In the United States of America there are people who are not often mentioned when the press talks of genocide. These people were not mentioned when the Kosovar Albanians were being expelled from their homes by Serbs, and by NATO bombs. When the pundits speak of the treatment of civilian Chechens by Russian military forces, these people are never remembered. Who remembers the American Natives, the indigenous people of North America, who now make up one percent of the US population? If the US violates its own internal treaties, what does this say to the rest of the world?

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Waco Killers Cover Up Crimes

It's not a glitch in the camera. It's not the sun striking something. It's not swamp gas reflecting off the planet Venus, this is somebody shooting, said the expert in weapons and infrared imagery on '60 Minutes II', after watching government tapes of the final assault at Waco.

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Vince Foster- The Unsolved Mystery

Vince Foster was found shot in the mouth in Fort Marcy Park in Washington, DC, July 1993. Though some who say he shot himself, and that the case is closed, there are still those who are just as convinced that Vince Foster was murdered, and there is an ongoing cover-up.

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Where's Osama Bin Hidin'?

Wanted for two 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), Osama bin Laden has declared his own version of Holy War on the US. Former CIA Director George Tenent told Congress on Wednesday, 2nd February 2000 that bin Laden is seeking to acquire radiological, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and, "despite some well-publicized disruptions, he can still strike without additional warning." Considering that bin Laden has declared his intentions to "kill all Americans," loud and clear, this is a worrisome situation for the US. That is, if bin Laden survives much longer with his failing kidneys.

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Who Was John Deutch Spying For?

Ex-CIA Director John M. Deutch has admitted taking home "enormously sensitive material," to his unsecured home-computer, and his hand picked successor to the job told Congress that it is impossible to know if the computers were hacked into, or if secrets were lost. Nearly ignored in the reports is the fact that Deutch was apparently using Citibank's private banking service.

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Who is Attacking the World Wide Web?

Is the recent spate of Internet attacks part of a nefarious plot to justify tightening of security, and increasing intrusive government snooping rights? Or is it simply a bored college student, playing the part of the angry anarchist? Is it cyber-terrorists, or black-hat hackers? Who is attacking the World Wide Web?

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CRASH Into Crime

The Rampart scandal may be the most serious man-made disaster our city has ever faced, stated Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Parks in the 'Daily News of Los Angeles' newspaper (February 16th, 2000). "Think about the horrors. People killed, framed, imprisoned, beaten by the very people we've entrusted to protect us from such criminal behavior. The Rampart scandal has scarred the city, and tarnished the reputations (sic) of an internationally renowned department."

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Scientific Racisim

Since World War II, various world governments, the CIA, and assorted military programs have all experimented with ways of controlling the mind, and with population control. This has included race-specific experimentation.

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Disinfo.con-Tents Under Pressure

Start of the day. Running late. We arrived at the Hammerstein Ballroom for Disinfo.Con 2000 (dubbed Cyberpalooza' by the media) extravaganza (February 19th, 2000), in plenty of time to just catch the end of Peter Giblin and Vyass Houston, but I didn't pay much attention, trying to get settled. Then Richard Metzger gave the invocation for the day, informing us that 'They' have surrendered, with his take on the Counter-culture now being the source of mainstream culture.

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Amadou Diallo is Dead!

Even if the defendant is otherwise guilty, if he acted in self-defense, you must find him not guilty. So charging the jury to consider lesser charges for the four cops charged in the Amadou Diallo shooting trial February 17, 2000, Judge Joseph C. Teresi sealed the outcome in favor of the officers.

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Malcolm X Remembered

Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was shot three years before Martin Luther King Jr., yet the pattern is similar in the way that they both had shifted their gaze from their originally narrow focus on civil rights for blacks, expanding to a later broader view, seeking equal rights for all the disaffected in America. They wanted to influence the status quo as a whole. At that point they became more than a nuisance. They became a threat. And that won't do.

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The Search for the Military Marine Mammalian Candidate

I am prepared to go to Allah, or even to the Devil, as long as my animals will be OK, said the 'animal mercenaries' squad trainer of a dolphin group that have been sold to Iran by Crimean authorities, who can no longer afford to keep them. As reported by the English 'Times' newspaper (March 10, 2000), the group of twenty-seven militarily trained sea mammals, which includes dolphins, Beluga whales, walruses, and sea lions, was flown to an Iranian military base along the Persian Gulf. The animals have all been trained in finding mines, or placing mines on enemy shipping, finding lost torpedoes, and were even involved in airdrop experiments.

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Blinded by the Sound

The US Navy is disregarding all evidence that shows their new submarine defense system is harming, and possibly killing whales, dolphins, and even humans who are in surrounding waters when the Navy tests are conducted, so a lawsuit has been filed to stop them.

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Project X- The Search for the Missing White House E-Mail

The US 'Department of Justice' launched a criminal investigation of the White House in March 2000 over 100 000 'missing' e-mails of US President Clinton's and "much, if not all," of US Vice-President Al Gore's. The attempt by high-level White House officials to 'classify' this problematic internal information was labeled 'Project X'.

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Murder, Mystery and Mayhem in Mena

"We had nothing, zero, to do with it," stated US President Bill Clinton when asked by veteran reporter Sarah McClendon about Mena, Arkansas drug running operations during a White House press conference (October 7th, 1994), "and everybody who has ever looked into it, knows that."

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Ed Wilson Got Shafted

In 1977, Edwin P. Wilson sold Libyan dictator Moammar Quaddaffi, 42 000 pounds (20 tons) of C-4, one of the most powerful explosives around, and perfect for terror operations Libya was on the US list of nations sponsoring terrorists, and was therefore off limits to this kind of business. After a worldwide, 5-year operation to bring Wilson to "justice," prosecutors and investigators for the US government finally got him, and put him in prison for fifty-two years. They committed perjury to do it.

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Bloody Bolivia

Martial law has been declared after armed rebellion erupted in the streets of Cochabamba, a Bolivian city of half a million. After nearly a week of massive protests that shut down that city, and spread across the country, President Hugo Banzer declared martial law on Saturday, April 8th, 2000. Police and military troops moved in. All this began over the price of water.

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Rampage in Rwanda

The image that keeps coming to mind is the one of machetes, chopping at arms trying to cover faces and bodies, trying to ward of the blows of these bloody slashing blades. Up to one million Tutsi died in just one hundred days in Rwanda, murdered by Hutus in a real genocide that shocked the world. What should shock even more is that the killings could have been stopped, or at least slowed, yet virtually nothing was done to help.

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Marijuana is Good For You!

Marijuana is a killer, if you ingests 15,000 pounds of the stuff within 15 minutes, a recent figure seen accredited to the US Drug Enforcement Agency suggests. Regardless of this dubious 'fact', eight US States have passed Medical Marijuana laws allowing people with a variety of ailments and medical complaints to legally use marijuana.

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Who Will Atone for Sierra Leone?

There are monsters loose upon the Earth. "I often heard this story - a man had his hands amputated, he would scream at the rebels, 'Just kill me, just kill me, you've killed me already . . .just finish me off!' and some of them would chase after the rebels with their bleeding stumps, just urging the rebels to kill them. The rebels would then come around and cut off some other part of their body, and that was either the ear, the mouth, or the tongue because they were protesting," revealed Corrine Dufka of Human Rights Watch, describing the madness in Sierra Leone's civil war, carried out against civilians mainly by the rebel forces.

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Big Brother Wants to Implant You

There are all kinds of ways that a ruling System can exert its control over the sheeple: propaganda on a massive scale, the politics of fear, and sheer intimidation. Probably the most repulsive, most invasive method that should raise hackles amongst every segment of society, is the internal Implant, used either for surveillance or mind control.

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US Torture

The UN 'Committee Against Torture' (UNCAT) has for the first time issued a report critical of the US and the many incidents of what can only be called torture that seem to be official policy against certain segments of US society.

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Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?

There are those in America who are busy proving the old adage "Crime Doesn't Pay" is flat out wrong. Because today in America, where there are currently around 2 million people incarcerated in prison, crime most certainly does pay, extremely well. For those who own a piece of the private prison-industrial complex anyway!

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CIA-Drugs Symposium- A Glimpse Behind the Veil

"Whatever system we are living under, it is not a democracy, and we are not protected by the Rule of Law", said Catherine Austin Fitts, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Housing & Urban Development. The US Government has known about drug trafficking among its assets, protected those assets helpful to whichever cause the US Government was backing at the time, and will never legalize any of the currently illicit substances as there is too much money being made from the War Against Some Drugs.

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Suicides and Other Odd Deaths

The Staff Director of the US House Select Committee on Intelligence was found dead of a gunshot wound in a fleabag motel in Vienna, Virginia on June 3, 2000. Several weeks earlier, the Committee had released their latest whitewash exonerating the CIA of drug trafficking during the 1980s. Is there a connection?

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Haiti- Drug Warriors are Certifiable

One definition of insanity is to do something over and over again and expect different results. So why does the US keep recertifying Haiti? The US News & World Report (May 29th, 2000) reported that Armand Jean-Robert, chief of Haiti's US-trained and supported anti-drug force, fled Haiti for Miami on May 7th, 2000. Jean-Robert had been accused of stealing drug-bust cash, and "ripping off another trafficker." He is but one in an unbroken line of corrupt law enforcement and political figures to flee Haiti because of their criminal behavior. But this is only part of the story.

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Surviving Big Brother

In what seems like a blatant move to inure the public to being watched and kept under surveillance 24 hours a day by anonymous voyeurs and keepers of the Law, television networks have unleashed a frightening new trend upon the masses: Reality TV. And the sheeple follow blindly along.

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Feed of Fight- Eritrea-Ethiopia at War

Since May 1998 a horrific war in the Horn of Africa has been waged between Ethiopia and Eritrea. One gruesome war picture showed thousands of dead Ethiopian bodies, mowed down as their insane leaders ordered them to attack Eritrean positions in human waves. Where are these two poor, famine-ravaged countries getting their arms to fight this bloody conflict? Just who is it profiting off one of the largest land wars since World War II?

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Hemingway the Spy, Hemingway the Spied Upon

Ernest Hemingway was one of those bigger than life figures, looming over the literary world with a grizzled macho reputation, and the hard fisted, hard drinking lifestyle he so loved to portray. Toward the end of his life, those around him, watching him drink the massive amounts of alcohol, naturally assumed that Hemingway was loosing his mind, suffering a case of psychosis, or going "increasingly delusional." But he wasn't. In fact, there were Feds constantly after him, for over a decade, watching his every move.

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Cars and Conspiracies

Racing up the deserted late-night beachfront highway, with the T-tops removed, in my old hometown in Florida, in what had been my big 4.9 Litre Turbo Trans Am, I felt alive.

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Occhipinti Got Too Close

The INS officer thought he had busted the biggest drug-gang in the Northeastern United States, and he had. He thought he would get another medal, maybe a raise, but what he got was framed, arrested, convicted, and put away in the very same prison where some targets of his own previous criminal investigations wound up serving their sentences.

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The Untouchable Black Dalits

What they want today is not jobs, but to live without being humiliated and harassed, said the Uttar Pradesh, India, official to the Time magazine reporter, describing the situation of his country's Dalits, or Black Untouchables.

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War is Hellishly Profitable

There is a new breed of cold-blooded soldier-of-fortune fighting in a multitude of countries in Africa and other hot war-zones around the world, a corporate version, which kills for a much higher, somewhat legal price tag.

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CIA Hits and Misses

One urban legend tells it like this: There was a man who flew for a CIA airline in the 1960s in South-east Asia. One day an agent working paramilitary ops in the region for the CIA threw a box into the plane, and told the pilot to deliver it to "Landry in Udorn." While flying, a noxious odor began seeping through the box, getting so overwhelming that the pilot opened the box, and found a fresh human head. It was a "joke," to see how "Landry in Udorn" would handle getting a head on his desk.

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Black Helicopters Come in All Shapes and Colors

If I was to be on a marijuana eradication mission with all these large, armed people in heavy field clothing and magnificent thundering equipment, I wanted to see me some pot, man - I mean I wanted vast waving fields of green instead of this wilted, hacked up bunch of what could have been $3 worth of basil from Wellspring, wrote Peter Eichenberger in the North Carolina Spectator (July 26th, 2000), commenting on his 'disappointment' at not finding action while accompanying a crew of helicopter-transported drug cops for a day.

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US Election Fraud and Scams

With the US Presidential election bearing down once again (2000), thoughts turn not only to the choices for President, but also to the question, how does one know there isn't cheating going on within the election system?

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Rotten Roots- the US, Nazis and the CIA

"He's on our side, and that's all that matters," chuckled Allen Dulles, a US Intelligence officer during the war who later headed the CIA. "Besides, one need not invite a Gehlen to one's club," wrote the late, great conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell in 1983, quoting Dulles. A mystery many Americans ponder now at the dawn of a new millennium is how an agency such as the CIA, which purports to work for the furthering of Truth, Justice and the American Way, could have gone so far astray. Or has it gone astray at all?

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Chicken Run on Shrooms

Not being much of a go-to-the-theater type anymore, more preferring to rent my movies and watch them at home, for my last birthday I made an exception. My girlfriend took me to see the first full-length Nick Park/Aardman film, Chicken Run, on mushrooms.

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A Peruvian Spy Chief Stumbles

"As Peruvian General Cisneros once explained, 'It is necessary to kill 10 peasants to kill one guerrilla,'" quotes Dan Russell in his scathing book Drug War: Covert Money, Power, and Policy (Kalyx.com, 2000), describing the US War Against Some Drugs that is being conducted in Peru. Now yet another powerful and repressive CIA-ally, a shining example of US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffery's favorite type of fiend, has fled his country.

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Death and Disease From Your Doctor

That Christmas I almost died. Not from the injuries I sustained, which did almost kill me at various other times, but rather from the Hyper-L needle the doctor had stuck into my chest, along with some kind of lethal virus.

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Who Put a Hole in the USS Cole?

The little boat seemed harmless to the US sailors on deck as the craft pulled alongside their mighty warship. The sailors waved down at the two men inside, who returned the gesture, then stood at attention, just before they and their little boat blew into smithereens, driving human bodies and shrapnel across the 66 foot-wide interior of the USS Cole, killing 17 US sailors, and injured 39.

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Washing Dirty Dollars

"What are we going to do? We've got the Fortune 500 involved in the drug money laundering-process," said former Drug Enforcement agent and current government advisor on drug trade economics, Greg Passic, to the New York Times (October 10th, 2000).

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Going After Agusto Pinchet With a Gusto

Whoever can forget the pictures of "I'm-too-sick-to-stand-trial" General Augusto Pinochet as he was wheeled out of his plane onto the tarmac in Chile? Pinochet miraculously rose from his wheelchair and strode forward to meet his cheering supporters, who had waited for the bloody ex-dictator's return.

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Can Pagens Celebrate Christmas?

I can even vaguely remember the Sunday School discussions about the origin of Christmas, the stories of the angels and the shepherds, and the primal manger scene under the Star of Bethlehem. What the clergy never discussed with us little kids was the fact that Christmas fell at the same time of year as many other religious celebrations throughout history, and even has many of its roots firmly imbedded in the pagan holiday rituals.

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Joy's Division

Ever find yourself feeling gloomy and depressed, or want to pretend you are? Put on some Joy Division and turn it up loud.

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Hoover's Ghost- the FBI and Other Official

Paparazzi

Celebrities attract a lot of attention. They learn to live with the pointing tourists and the constant irritation of paparazzi snapping photos at them, while the celebrities are out in public, doing mundane and everyday things. Celebrities don't expect to have the attention of the U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, yet there is a long list of celebrities from myriad fields who have come under the jaundiced glare of officialdom. Federal Bureau of Investigation chief J. Edgar Hoover led the hounding pack.

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Modern Slavery- Who Will be the Emancipator?

"Here's what he said to me: he has my life, he can do as he pleases with it. He can choose to send me to school, he can choose not to. I was being told if I did tell someone I would go to jail," a former Cameroon slave named PB told Newsweek magazine (December 18th, 2000). PB was enslaved for four years by a naturalized U.S. couple, also from Cameroon, in Detroit's affluent suburb of Farmington Hills. Slavery did not vanish from the Earth when the Northern States won the American Civil War, contrary to what Americans may believe. Modern slaves are entrapped in child labor, debt bondage, servile marriage and prostitution. Today an estimated 27 million people have no idea what "Emancipation" means.

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The DU Years- Death and Destruction by Heavy

Metal

How do you dispose of the nuclear waste that remains from nuclear power and weapons-grade material? This question has been posed by opponents of nuclear power and weapons technologies, which create byproducts that emit harmful radiation for thousands of years. The US Pentagon has come up with a sure-fire way to get rid of US nuclear waste: fire it as ammunition, whilst engaged in foreign conflicts.

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Warpigs Gorge on Military Pork

"Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses, Evil minds that plot destruction, sorcerer of death's construction. In the fields the bodies burning, as the war machine keeps turning. Death and hatred to mankind, poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that all to the poor. Time will tell on their power-minds, making war just for fun, Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till the judgement day comes."
~~ War Pigs/Luke's Wall, Black Sabbath (Iommi/Osbourne/Butler/Ward), 1970

Trying to describe this topic to someone over a New Year's dinner, I used the common term "military pork" to give an overall impression of over-billing practices by Defense Industry contractors, who are awarded military contracts by Congress worth huge sums of money, that end up costing taxpayers billions, while making themselves rich. This guy launched into an "explanation" of what he said the real causes of "military pork" were.

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John Ashcroft- An Empty Suit With the Deepest

Pockets

The Anointed one will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the ruler will come, will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood . . . ~ ~ Daniel 9:26 (quoted by Ken Friedman) I've been really sad since I realized most peoples opposition to the nomination of John Ashcroft, former Governor of Missouri, former Missouri Senator, and now President-elect George W. Bush's choice for US Attorney General, is due to his outspoken, repressive, self-described "Christian" values. Ashcroft's apparent feelings on certain other issues, such as his anti-gay, anti-civil liberties stance, and his pro-War Against Some Drugs view, have prompted many people to voice their concern about his nomination. But something that really bugs me, something that (probably) epitomizes his entire being: John Ashcroft anointed himself with Crisco cooking oil.

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Columbus Wasn't First Across the Ocean

Every year on October 12, in the US, the Caribbean, and Latin America, there are memorial celebrations that commemorate the "discovery" of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. These celebrations proclaim Columbus as a great navigator, and the first Outsider to set foot on the Americas' shores, since the migrations across the Bering land bridge in prehistoric times. But what if this wasn't true? What if he were only following in the footsteps of others What if the exploring went both in and out of the "New World"?

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Bauhaus and Homework

Suddenly, my companion said to me out of the darkness to my right, just audible over the blasting stereo: "This is not music to do my homework by." Maybe not while driving and tripping, but Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead,"--nine-plus minutes of rock history recorded in just one take--sure made for an amazing soundscape to drive through tripping. Homework was just one of many activities I'd undertake while listening to Bauhaus.

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M is for Methadone

It should be obvious that if Methadone does what it is advertised, than of course folks should actively support it's dissemination. But to me, a person currently dealing with the realization that methadone only put off the hell of kicking, with a much harder kick awaiting me when the decision to end its use was recently reached, it isn't obvious. Who is making the money from the production and sales of Methadone? Why is Methadone more preferable than simple Heroin maintenance? (Other than for the blatant advantage of no longer taking the drug, made illegal by the same folks who made MMT legal, that initiated the addiction in the first place.)

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Iraq Attack!

US President George W. Bush told reporters that it was time to send the Chinese "an appropriate message" during his first official press conference at the White House (February 22, 2001), when asked about US accusations China was installing the new Iraqi radar system recently bombed by US and UK warplanes. What message might that be, the US bombing of another Chinese embassy? Bush bombed Iraq twice within a week (February 16-22), striving manfully to play catch-up to Clinton's incessant bombing of Iraq since Operation Desert Fox (December 1998).

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Traffic

Of everyone I know, I seem to be one of the few who has not seen the film Traffic (2000), nor have I any plans to do so. There's always something slightly creepy to me about sitting in a crowded dark theater watching other people pretend (or not pretend) to "do drugs" on the big screen. And I'm not talking here about marijuana. Hell, I used to go to the movies and would miss half the film while busy bent over trying to catch enough light from those little floor bulbs that line the aisles in theaters, trying see the vein I wanted to hit. I personally don't want to watch others pretend to portray drug abuse. Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won Best Director (Steven Soderbergh), Best Adapted Screenplay (Stephen Gaghan), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro) and Film Editing (Stephen Mirrione).

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Narco News- Why It's Best to Always Tell the Truth

(this precident setting case has been settled in the journalists' favor since this was published- see www.narconews.com for all the details.)

Akin Gump filed suit (August 9, 2000), in the United States District Court for the Southern District, New York City, alleging the two journalist/publishers had committed libel against their client. The suit threatens to shut down legitimate journalists for reporting facts, trapping them into a time consuming harassment, charging them a high price for reporting the truth. "They can grit their teeth and suffer Al's reporting, day after aggravating day, as he exposes the ugly underside of this endless war on drugs - and actually makes things happen, like real journalists are supposed to do," wrote Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance: The CIA the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Seven Stories Press, 1999), in a letter supporting the two journalists.

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Authentic Journalism- An Interview with Al Giordano

Abbie Hoffman, in his final book Steal This Urine Test (New York: Penguin Books, 1987), described Al Giordano as "the best under-thirty community organizer in America."

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Where's the Clash When We Need Them?

"You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a crime. Unless it is done by a policeman or aristocrat." ~~ "Know Your Rights", The Clash (1982)

In the early days of the 1980s, when MTV, could still (maybe) claim to be sort of "alternative" and new, two of my favorite videos they would play were of the premier punk rock icon, The Clash: "Radio Clash", and "Rock the Casbah." Other than Rage Against the Machine, which other bands does MTV give airtime to nowadays that bite so hard the hand that feeds them?

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Christian Death- Throw Them to the Lions

I must admit, I not only like the music of Christian Death, finally getting to a gig by Valor's Christian Death at Limelight (New York City) in 1994, I also very much appreciate their style and verve, being drawn to a group that so openly flaunts such anti-Judeo-Christian tendencies. (My parents never have said anything about that [Christian Death] poster of [Jesus shooting up] on my wall, though I did catch them giving it disconcerted sidelong glances once or twice during their visit.)

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