Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Returns to the Web.

[reprehensor]

Thanks to The Narco News Bulletin, (narconews.com), Gary Webb's groundbreaking piece of investigative journalism has been restored to the internet.

If you are unfamiliar with Webb's story, it can be summed up like this; with a lot of hard work, Webb was able to flesh out the stories about CIA-linked cocaine sales in the United States. (Reminder: cocaine is a banned substance.)

He did his research, and came up with documentary evidence to substantiate his claims, and the story "Dark Alliance" was published in 1996 by the San Jose Mercury News. They created a website to go along with the story, and Webb says at the height of the website's popularity was getting a million hits a day.

The goverment's response was no response. Instead, mainstream media killed the story for Reagan and co. by saying, "Hey, it's not true. Never happened." The charge was led by the Washington Post, and soon 'the liberal media' was downplaying Webb's accusations in chorus.

But truth never dies.

Here is "Dark Alliance" restored to its former glory.

Pass the word, Gary Webb Lives.

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Consortium News: America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb

Narco News: Gary Webb: Do What He Did

Guerilla News: Gary Webb: In His Own Words

[Moochy]

1. Gary Webb, Authentic Journalist

Kick, amazing man, amazing story. His story resonates now more than ever.

[laststeamtrain]

2. Thanks for the tip.

Dope and oil seem to be BushCo(and their kith) staples. Find one and you find the other.

[EVDebs]

3. Strange when you realize govt. won't allow buph

'Buph' (I can't remember full name of the drug) isn't being fully utilized to treat addiction because of Congress. Yet Congress by its other policies allows drug trade 'complicity' by CIA as the book Politics of Heroin by Alfred McCoy shows us.

Very sick.

[prodigal_green]

4. Gary Webb, who, along with

Danny Cosalaro brought the verb "suicided" into the American vernacular.

I knew a journalist who worked on the "Octopus" BCCI story, which Cosalaro was doing at the time and who was himself threatened the night that Cosalaro died--before Danny's suicide was reported in the papers. He left the country and his paper publicized the threat.

It's no wonder a lot of journalists are afraid to dig into anything anymore.

[hiley]

5. reprehensor

Thanks !
hiley

[Romberry]

6. Kick!

Important story for those who aren't familiar with it. Also important is what happened to Gary Webb for daring to dig into the dark underbelly of the truth.

[Monkie]

7. kick in memory of Gary Webb and for narcosphere.narconews.com

real journalists are in short supply..
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ for authentic journalism from South America and "unfiltered" information on the movement for social change.