The Onion: CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine

WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with President Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly explained to the nation's first African-American commander in chief the highly classified origin of crack cocaine and the resultant epidemic that swept across U.S. inner cities. "Well, you see, sir...thing is, we needed money to help those Contras back in '85, and we never really expected...so we distributed it, and...shortsighted...and, ha, well, Christ—is it hot...

Antiwar Radio: Robert Murphy

Last week I twice spoke with Robert Murphy of the Free Advice blog and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. The archive of both interviews has finally arrived. Here.

Run-of-the-Mill American Imperialists No Match for Israeli Likud Party Fifth Column

Charles "Chas" Freeman [ironically] in the neocon-dominated Wall St. Journal upon being un-hired to what was to be his new position leading the National Intelligence Council - an effort thwarted by indicted Israeli spy Steve Rosen, Jeffery "I will never ever be able to regain any of my honor for the rest of my life after helping to get a million Iraqis killed" Goldberg and the axis of Peretz over at Morgan's Own┞¢ The New Republic: To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement...

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’

By Eric Black, MinnPost.com At a ‘Great Conversations’ event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an ‘executive assassination ring.’ Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet. In an...