
Cracktoberfest Part Five: How the CIA and the L.A. Times Killed Gary Webb
Behind the Bastards
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The CIA Is Back Again. They Only Worried About It
The New York Times plays a major role in hyping up fears of a crack epidemic, which is used to justify arresting a shitload of black men and breaking up a bunch of families. And then as soon as the allegations come out that the CIA was the one that brought in the cocaine, well, all of these same media organizations who had pushed up the crack epidemic act to crack down on the story. Well, yeah, that does kind of seem like a fucking conspiracy. It really does.
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