Robert Parry: Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?

[marmar]

from Consortium News:


Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?
October 11, 2014

Exclusive: “Kill the Messenger” tells the tragic tale of journalist Gary Webb who revived the Contra-cocaine scandal in the 1990s and saw his life destroyed by the mainstream media. The question now is: Will the MSM continue its cover-up of this sordid part of Ronald Reagan’s legacy or finally accept the truth, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry


The mainstream news media’s reaction to the new movie, “Kill the Messenger,” has been tepid, perhaps not surprising given that the MSM comes across as the film’s most unsympathetic villain as it crushes journalist Gary Webb for digging up the Contra-cocaine scandal in the mid-1990s after the major newspapers thought they had buried it in the 1980s.

Not that the movie is without other villains, including drug traffickers and “men in black” government agents. But the drug lords show some humanity and even honesty as they describe how they smuggled drugs and shared the proceeds with the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, President Ronald Reagan’s beloved “freedom fighters.”

By contrast, the news executives for the big newspapers, such as the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, come across as soulless careerists determined to maintain their cozy relations with the CIA’s press office and set on shielding their failure to take on this shocking scandal when it was playing out in the 1980s.

So, in the 1990s, they concentrated their fire on Webb for alleged imperfections in his investigative reporting rather than on U.S. government officials who condoned and protected the Contra drug trafficking as part of Reagan’s Cold War crusade. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/11/can-msm-handle-the-contra-cocaine-truth/

[Octafish]

1. Parry lost his own gig for telling the truth about Reagan-Bush-Iran-Contra.

They called him a "conspiracy theorist" and Parry's bosses said, "OK. Whatever you say, Boss."

[Botany]

2. And W's Brother, Marvin, worked at an airport that was bringing in the cocaine as his daddy ...

... HW was President.

I don't know if this happened at the airport where "Southern Air Transport" (aka The CIA)
was flying into but their is a story that customs and or the DEA tried to sieze a plane that
they knoew had drugs on it but they were stopped by the CIA.

Good old Iran Contra ..... drug running, Swiss Bank Accounts, slush funds which Ollie North
helped himself to, and the illegal funding of a war in Central America and the people who did
it got away with it all.




But they got Clinton on a BJ ...... W stole two elections, crashed the economy, started two
wars, and Cheney and such made billions ...... And now they want to get Obama on Bengghazi.

[malthaussen]

6. "But they got Clinton on a BJ"

If you look at Dark Alliance, pp 116 et seq, you'll find that Mr Webb made an effort to implicate the Clintons in Contra-Cocaine. Wonder how that will play out in the movie.

-- Mal

[mylye2222]

3. As well as to Webb and even then-Sen. Kerry.

Both of them became targets of corp media.
So I kick this Parry tread. Thanks a lot.
And no. I think this movie will get a long time of trash reviews.

[JEB]

4. K&R

I'm anxious to see the movie. Glad that the topic has been pulled out from under the rug at least for a bit.

[mylye2222]

5. The movie will be released in France

only November 26th. Im now jumping with impatience to watch it!

[pscot]

7. K&R

[salib]

8. Evidently not as they do not call it the CIA-Contra-cocaine scandal

[mylye2222]

9. Witch they really should, btw....

In the Alternative Perfect World!

[Enthusiast]

10. The MSM will ignore this as if it's a gigantic environmental protest.

[StevePaulson]

11. Ronald Reagan Was A Criminal

He said he didn't know. Bull. Mr. "Welfare queens driving Caddillacs" was a pusher. Don't tell Sarah Palin.

[mylye2222]

12. Reagan. The Bushes. Cheney. North...

All in the same criminal basket!

[riverbendviewgal]

13. to send a message

Go buy a ticket and see the movie in the theatre, and encourage your friends to do so. Especially in this election year.

[spanone]

14. this will get buried deeper than hells basement.....the media is owned by the movers & shakers

[Botany]

15. kind of like Ohio 2004

n/t

[bobthedrummer]

16. Kick + Global Subversion Begets a Question fo Ed Snowden: Are Covert OPS Compatible With Democracy?

by Bill Blunden 10-12-14 via cryptome

http://cryptome.org/2014/10/cia-snowden.pdf

Running a fever, are we????