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Tag Archives: Contras
It’s back to the future with Venezuelan ‘Contras,’ the neocons, and the CIA
By Wayne Madsen Source: Intrepid Report Donald Trump displayed his full neocon colors on February 18 during a speech at Florida International University in Miami. With convicted Iran-contra felon Elliott Abrams now acting as his “special envoy” in charge of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, Blackwater, CIA, Contras, corporate media, Coups, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Elliott Abrams, empire, front companies, geopolitics, Haiti, Honduras, imperialism, John Bolton, Jovenel Moise, Neocons, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Ronald Reagan, venezuela
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THE NEOCON PLAYBOOK IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER IN VENEZUELA
By Klaus Marre and Donkeyhotey Source: Who.What.Why. When Donald Trump promised that he would only hire the “best people,” maybe he should have been pressed on what, exactly, they would be good at. Because it’s clearly not running the US … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, news, Psy-ops, society, State Crime
Tagged black ops, CIA, Contras, Efraín Ríos Montt, El Salvador, Elliott Abrams, empire, geopolitics, Guatemala, imperialism, John Bolton, Latin America, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Nicaragua, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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The Other Side of the Post’s Katharine Graham
By Norman Solomon Source: Consortium News Movie critics are already hailing “The Post,” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Millions of people will see the film in early winter. But the real-life political story … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, censorship, CIA, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, History, imperialism, Labor, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged CIA, Contras, Henry Kissinger, hollywood, imperialism, John Hanrahan, Katharine Graham, Nicaragua, Pentagon Papers, propaganda, Robert McNamara, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Sandinistas, State Crime, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Vietnam War, war, War Criminals, washington post
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Why the Drug War Has Been a Forty-Year Lynching
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman Source: FreePress.org The Drug War has been a forty-year lynching…. …the corporate/GOP response to the peace and civil rights movements. It’s used the Drug Enforcement Administration and other policing operations as a high-tech Ku … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Health, History, Law, police state, Racism, Social Control, society, State Crime, Video
Tagged Cannabis, Contras, DEA, drug war, Harm Reduction, marijuana, non-violent crimes, police state, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Prohibition, racism, Richard Nixon, Sentencing Project, The New Jim Crow, War on Drugs
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The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
By Robert Parry Source: Consortium News To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged CIA, Consortium News, Contras, corporate media, Iran, iraq, Kiev, Nicaragua, Perception Management, propaganda, Reagan Administration, Robert Parry, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, William Casey
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A Brief History of Nicaragua
To have even a basic understanding of Nicaraguan culture it’s important to first know a little about the land’s history. In the Pre-Columbian era, the region now called Nicaragua was inhabited by several tribes culturally related to Aztec and Maya … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, State Crime, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Augusto César Sandino, Carlos Fonseca, Contras, Daniel Ortega, Diriangen, FSLN, geopolitics, history, Nicaragua, politics, Reagan, Revolution, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Somoza
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