We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

El Chapo Escape in Mexico Points to Intelligence Links with Narco-Traffickers

Click here to access article by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation

I regard Madsen has one of the most well informed analysts of the US's shadow government and their dirty secrets. His articles are always well reasoned and backed by sound investigative work and documentation. No doubt his background in various spy agencies in the US Navy, NSA, and contractors doing business with NSA has helped hone his skills at uncovering the dirty secrets.
The ramifications of El Chapo’s prison escape and Trump’s inconvenient referrals to the Mexican criminal immigrant problem are bubbling to the surface in a presidential campaign where the connections of the Bush family to the CIA drug trade are an issue, whether the Bushes and their well-heeled supporters like it or not.
 But, of course, mainstream media won't touch any connections to the Bush clan, but Madsen does in this piece. In this article he digs deeper behind the recent controversies that corporate media love to cover and finds some real significant dirt implicating various members of the Bush family. This evidence together with a number of reports from Peter Dale Scott, Gary Webb, in addition to Madsen and others might justify labeling the US as a "narco-state".