http://www.narconews.com/…
Months in the Planning, the Operation Included US Special Forces Posing as Members of a “French Humanitarian Group”
By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
July 3, 2008
A U.S. military special-operations unit carried out the recent rescue of three Defense Department contractors being held by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to a source who [...]

July 5th, 2008 | Tags: Betancourt, Colombia, created terror, FARC, mercenaries, Octopus | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.wired.com/…
By Sharon Weinberger

Defense Solutions has proposed teaming with the Russian arms-export agency, Rosoboronexport, for several arms deals, including supplying Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan. Rosoboronexport is blacklisted by the U.S. government for allegedly violating the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act.
Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as [...]

July 4th, 2008 | Tags: arms trafficking, Octopus, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

hat tip ~ Narco News Bulletin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
July 2, 2008 03:07
The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

July 3rd, 2008 | Tags: arms trafficking, AUC, Banadex, Chiquita, Colombia, Conspiracy 101, created terror, death squads, ELN, FARC, John McCain, Lindner, mercenaries, military industrial complex, Octopus | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.consortiumnews.com/…
By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
June 30, 2008
As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

July 1st, 2008 | Tags: Iran/Contra, Octopus | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.motherjones.com…
It’s instructive to read the recent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the 2001-2003 meetings between Pentagon officials and Iran contra figures Michael Ledeen and Manucher Ghorbanifar, side by side with the 2007 memoir of former CIA director George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm (Harper Collins, 2007, pp. 311-313). Indeed, doing so [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Conspiracy 101, created terror, Iran/Contra, Octopus | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

wikileaks.org
How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it

June 21st, 2008 | Tags: assassination, created terror, death squads, manual, mercenaries, military industrial complex, Octopus | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.motherjones.com/…
When Democratic members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence presented the final installments of the committee’s long-awaited pre-war intelligence investigation to the press earlier this month in the Senate gallery, they demurred when reporters’ asked them if they intended to pursue possible charges against Bush administration officials whom the Senators said had exaggerated the [...]

June 21st, 2008 | Tags: Conspiracy 101, Ghorbanifar, Iran/Contra, Octopus, Pentagon | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.madcowprod.com/…
May 21 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
The Guyanese pilot implicated by a former Customs agent as part of a ring of corrupt Customs officials being investigated by the Dept. of Homeland Security was in the news again recently as part of another scandal, this time in his native Guyana.
Michael Francis Brassington, whose name is a footnote in [...]

June 15th, 2008 | Tags: CIA, cocaine, Conspiracy 101, created terror, Drugwar, Guyana, Octopus, planes, Russia | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

madcowprod.com
JUNE 12 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
An American turbo-prop airplane went down in Venezuela last month, the second such incident in the past 45 days, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

June 15th, 2008 | Tags: CIA, cocaine, Drugwar, Octopus, planes | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment