Tag: drug use

Ronal Reagan, Iran-Contra, Robbie Conal
Political Geography, Politics and Advocacy

Kill the Messenger: Gary Webb and the Contra-Cocaine Connection

The new movie, “Kill the Messenger,” recounts the brave Contra-cocaine reporting by Gary Webb and his subsequent destruction at the hands of the mainstream media. It forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan Administration in the 1980s, writes Robert Parry.

screenshot from Commissioner of Sewers
Literary

William S. Burroughs – Commissioner of Literary Addictions

Burroughs wanted to free people from the slavery of addiction, whether to heroin or money or sex. “The Garden of Earthly Delights” was his shorthand for the diseased saturnalia of American affluence. From his earliest writings Burroughs foresaw a time when human beings, drenched in orgasmic “freedom,” would be reduced to their bodies, their minds completely manipulated by advertising and mass media.