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The Dark Alliance of Media and Empire: The ‘Dissident’ Smear of Gary Webb
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-floyd/59098/the-dark-alliance-of-media-and-empire-the-dissident-smear-of-gary-webbThe Dark Alliance of Media and Empire: The Dissident Smear of Gary Webb
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by Chris Floyd | October 20, 2014 - 8:41am
I assume that most of the rapidly dwindling number of people who read this blog have already read Tarzies takedown of The Intercepts curiously CIA-slanted smear of Gary Webb, who revealed the Agencys instrumental involvement in the 1980s crack epidemic that devastated Americas inner cities in order to fund the illegal Contra war in Nicaragua.
(As an aside, Id like to note that the flood of crack into America was not of course confined to the inner cities, although that was indeed its epicenter. Over time, it crept out into that rural heartland where, in Gore Vidals immortal phase, chiggers burrow and Jesus saves, and destroyed the lives of many good old boys along with the ghetto dwellers who were the primary targets. One of these old boys was a close friend of mine, a good-hearted, unharmful gentle soul damaged by a violent upbringing who got hooked on crack and ended up in the absolute hellhole of the American prison complex. This was a sweet, music-loving, friend-supporting man whod never hurt a single person in his life, who spent his time in prison trying to mediate between the racist gangs paying the price for it with beatings and threats trying to walk the line and being scorned for it by guards and prisoners alike. All this for a quiet, diversionary high he could have gotten from a couple of legal six-packs every night, if not for the insidious addictive nature of the product the CIA pushed into the hands of the pushers. This is one of the main things that drive my rage against the murderers and liars who strut upon the national and international stages, pretending to be pious leaders: the fate of good people like my friend, ordinary people, people filled with love, with dreams, who just want to get beyond whatever torments their pasts have inflicted upon them and enjoy their time, their friends, their children, their lovers, but are instead crushed like bugs beneath the bootheels of imperial policy. Its things like this that make me want to say: Damn these killers and liars to hell, whatever their party or professed ideals may be.)
Anyway, in his original piece, Tarzie committed the increasingly rare sin of genuine journalism by investigating and debunking, point by point, The Intercepts ugly spin on Webbs work work which was later confirmed by the CIA itself. Now Tarzie is back with a follow-up on the continuing disparagement of Webbs work by the Establishment media (covering its own spotty posterior for its original collaboration with CIA smears) in a new piece, with links to several other important stories on the case. Both pieces are well worth reading, if you havent already.
II. The Oligarchs Code Revisited
Speaking of The Intercept, and the billionaire oligarch behind this doughty bastion of dissent, what has Pierre Omidyars favorite religious neo-fascist been up too, after Pierres money helped him into power? Why, fomenting war at one of the worlds most dangerous nuclear flashpoints, of course!
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