I like these videos that challenge the common narrative and dive deep. We need to get rid of the spooks. Between the bankers and the damn spooks, we're all getting played.
Good! Because more such videos are coming. One or two a week, anyway.
I picked this one because I earned my CIA file while it was going on. I publicly protested against illegal aid to the contras, and supported my Congressman at the time, Henry B. Gonzalez, who introduced Articles of Impeachment against Reagan before an empty House.
The Democrats were busy being taken over by the DLCers like Bill Clinton at the time, and they didn't have a problem with much of anything that Reagan did. They just wanted to make his donors their donors.
For those that don't know, the "scandal" part was because CIA/NSA had cooked up this scheme to circumvent the ban Congress had placed on funding the Contras because of their well documented human rights abuses, including collective punishment, torture and murder to suppress support of the Sandinista government. Because Dog forbid, no socialist government should be allowed to exist in the Western Hemisphere. (see also: Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela.)
Killing Catholic Nuns…cut & paste Chicago Tribune. “Three Americans have returned from Nicaragua with videotapes and transcripts of statements from two Nicaraguan villagers who say they saw U.S.-supported contra rebels launch an ambush last week that killed two nuns and left another nun and a bishop wounded.”
Anyone know why Secretary of Defense, Casper Weinberger was given a pardon ? Reagan himself was never charged, and, in 1992, George H. W. Bush, Reagan’s vice president who was elected president in 1988, preemptively pardoned Weinberger.
Repercussions of the Iran/Contra affair had a direct impact on my professional career. and tells you a lot about how the corporate media covers our forever war making. At the time I was the editorial cartoonist at The Albuquerque Tribune. The following is from my website:
"My cartooning career came to a bruising end when the work I was doing on Ronald Reagan’s Central American dirty wars began to be rejected. After a half-dozen years of success and good relations with my editors, cartoon after cartoon on all topics were rejected – often brutally.
"Cartooning legend Bill Maudlin had grown up in New Mexico and recently returned to semi-retirement in Santa Fe. I called him up one day to share my tale. He said he had been following my work. “I’ve been waiting for you to call,” he said, and invited me to his home for a little feedback … and reality check.
"He wasn’t surprised I was on the outs with the editor and publisher. I learned from him that there were some powerful old Hispanic families in New Mexico with dusty family and business ties to Central American oligarchs and, no doubt, my spilling so much ink on Reagan and U.S. crimes in Central America had pissed off a few influential people.
"I was exiled from the editorial page soon after and shifted my journalistic focus to outdoor and environmental reporting. While I did occasional illustration work, my efforts turned to writing and photography. In 1994 I left journalism for a new career without a glance back."
I was just looking at this earlier this week and its connection to Latin America, very interesting
I like these videos that challenge the common narrative and dive deep. We need to get rid of the spooks. Between the bankers and the damn spooks, we're all getting played.
Good! Because more such videos are coming. One or two a week, anyway.
I picked this one because I earned my CIA file while it was going on. I publicly protested against illegal aid to the contras, and supported my Congressman at the time, Henry B. Gonzalez, who introduced Articles of Impeachment against Reagan before an empty House.
The Democrats were busy being taken over by the DLCers like Bill Clinton at the time, and they didn't have a problem with much of anything that Reagan did. They just wanted to make his donors their donors.
For those that don't know, the "scandal" part was because CIA/NSA had cooked up this scheme to circumvent the ban Congress had placed on funding the Contras because of their well documented human rights abuses, including collective punishment, torture and murder to suppress support of the Sandinista government. Because Dog forbid, no socialist government should be allowed to exist in the Western Hemisphere. (see also: Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela.)
Killing Catholic Nuns…cut & paste Chicago Tribune. “Three Americans have returned from Nicaragua with videotapes and transcripts of statements from two Nicaraguan villagers who say they saw U.S.-supported contra rebels launch an ambush last week that killed two nuns and left another nun and a bishop wounded.”
I forgot about that. One of the nuns was originally from my home town.
Anyone know why Secretary of Defense, Casper Weinberger was given a pardon ? Reagan himself was never charged, and, in 1992, George H. W. Bush, Reagan’s vice president who was elected president in 1988, preemptively pardoned Weinberger.
Repercussions of the Iran/Contra affair had a direct impact on my professional career. and tells you a lot about how the corporate media covers our forever war making. At the time I was the editorial cartoonist at The Albuquerque Tribune. The following is from my website:
"My cartooning career came to a bruising end when the work I was doing on Ronald Reagan’s Central American dirty wars began to be rejected. After a half-dozen years of success and good relations with my editors, cartoon after cartoon on all topics were rejected – often brutally.
"Cartooning legend Bill Maudlin had grown up in New Mexico and recently returned to semi-retirement in Santa Fe. I called him up one day to share my tale. He said he had been following my work. “I’ve been waiting for you to call,” he said, and invited me to his home for a little feedback … and reality check.
"He wasn’t surprised I was on the outs with the editor and publisher. I learned from him that there were some powerful old Hispanic families in New Mexico with dusty family and business ties to Central American oligarchs and, no doubt, my spilling so much ink on Reagan and U.S. crimes in Central America had pissed off a few influential people.
"I was exiled from the editorial page soon after and shifted my journalistic focus to outdoor and environmental reporting. While I did occasional illustration work, my efforts turned to writing and photography. In 1994 I left journalism for a new career without a glance back."
You can see one of the cartoons I did that got me in trouble at: https://demockracy.ink/the-power-of-the-political-cartoon/