Day: November 22, 2020

How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb

Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.

Related:

Kill The Messenger: Mike Levine & Gary Webb – The Big White Lie + Dark Alliance= CIA drug cartel (YouTube)

The Dark Alliance: Gary Webb’s Incendiary 1996 SJ Mercury News Exposé

[2015] A Day When Journalism Died

Internet Archive (PDF): The Dark Alliance

Foreign investors pile back into booming China

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Foreign investors pile back into booming China

That shift could support China’s longer-term plans to expand domestic consumption and gradually liberalise foreign involvement in its industries even after it has cracked down on some of its biggest conglomerates and the outward capital flows they fuelled over the past decade.

Official data shows that foreign direct investment in China rose in October for the seventh straight month, jumping 18 per cent year on year to Rmb81.9bn ($11.8bn).