"…Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found with two bullet holes in the head…In the days leading up to his death, Webb had told friends that he was receiving death threats, being regularly followed by what he thought were government agents, and that he was concerned about strange individuals who were seen breaking into and leaving his house.
In the late 1990s, Webb had written a series of stories for the San José Mercury News, which provided the basis for his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998).
In it, Webb detailed how the explosion of crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s was sparked by two Nicaraguan émigrés, Danilo Blandón and Norwin Meneses, who sold huge amounts of cocaine to raise funds for a CIA-backed rebel army—the Contras…"
Still pretty astonishing that all US media is keeping up the conspiracy of silence against his story, considering any one of the journalists at these companies could be killed just like him. His death must have quite the chilling effect on them, instead of inspiring them to protect themselves by publicizing stories about the dangers to journalists.
I think it’s in the past at this point so they wanna just erase it and or memory hole it like it never happened. Didn’t Rachel Maddow finally after years of spreading bs propaganda come out saying assange shouldn’t be persecuted? That’s gotta be scary man, basically the US saying “dissident journalists here or in any friendly nation, we can end your life and torture you at the drop of a feather.”
I swear if the US doesn’t chill Europe and Australia and the rest are finally gonna just choose China. The US wants to not only sink all of Europe economically but then also eliminate all sovereignty. How fucking hilarious would it be if the EU one of these switches up and sanctions the US, let’s Russian gas flow in, their economies would boom and they could save capitalism. Unlikely but soon enough the people will be demanding it at this rate.
I swear if the US doesn’t chill Europe and Australia and the rest are finally gonna just choose China. The US wants to not only sink all of Europe economically but then also eliminate all sovereignty.
Fingers crossed. It would be an absolutely hilarious shitshow to hear US leaders threaten to invoke the hague act and invade France or something.
France seems to be aiming to become the new top dog of western Europe - with USA’s blessings
The media over here are doing overtime writing spooky stories about China, so the people at the top must fear a positive China sentiment brewing.
You know how bourgeoisie purposefully atomize and divide the working class, setting them against one another in order to cement their power? What you’ve described is just a more obvious example. Nobody wants to get suicided by CIA. And the thought of collective action, of successful collective action especially seems just utterly alien
If you’ve never seen FX’s show Snowfall before, it’s very good, it follows three characters in LA during the 80s. One of which is a CIA officer involved in Contra drug trafficking. I won’t spoil anything but in its 5 seasons there have been only 1-2 clunker episodes that seemed ridiculous, that being said it isn’t entirely accurate, really good tho
