Playlist for Show: Long Waves

A free society cannot exist without free journalists and accurate reporting of news. Yet the US press has become progressively more concentrated in ownership and journalists who step outside of the “official” stories and discourses find themselves ostracized, unemployed, and blacklisted in the MSM.  Thus stories that cut too close to the bone in challenging the official and unofficial powers in the US simply disappear down the memory hole.

This show examines Gary Webb whose revelations of CIA smuggling of cocaine into the US and its distribution into poor, black neighborhoods in LA and other cities. It is a cautionary tale which continues today with the burying of human rights abuses and war crimes by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries.

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