John Stockwell on CIA Drug Trafficking, Iran-Contra, and Democracy

June 25, 1988 www.amazon.com Watch the full interview: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Civil Air Transport (IATA: CT, ICAO: CAT, Callsign: Mandarin) was a Chinese airline, later owned by the CIA, that supported United States covert operation throughout East and Southeast Asia. secretsofthecia.blogspot.com During the Cold War, missions consisted in assistance to Free World allies according to the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949. Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It was widely alleged among various veterans that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in smuggling opium produced in Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia to heroin producers in the United States at considerable profit. In the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison, provides evidence of the use of opium by agents of the US Government to fund covert operations in Vietnam. McCoy discusses the use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam and provides prolific testimony from interviews with many of the principals involved. According to Dr. McCoy, the agency intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published. It was alleged by the Soviets on …
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How often do we hear President Bush tell the troops that if they die it is for “democracy”?

Question by enlightenment: How often do we hear President Bush tell the troops that if they die it is for “democracy”?
One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Remember this on the 4th of July.

Put Away the Flags – by Howard Zinn http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0703-29.htm

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Answer by Jason F
who cares he is still the better of the two choices for president. Kerry scares the hell out of me.

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