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Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade in Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

The post The “Deep Politics” Reality of our Foreign Policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been Narco-Centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror Public Facade or Rationale appeared first on LewRockwell.

Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

The post The “Deep Politics” Reality of our Foreign Policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been Narco-Centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror Public Facade or Rationale appeared first on LewRockwell.

Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Regarding the new food pyramid, although it is now correct, what is the government doing issuing a food pyramid in the first place?

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Trump/Vance was presented as “the peace ticket,” and was voted in with the expectation of focusing on America instead of the rest of the world. But alas, the addiction to Empire has proven to be too strong once again. The Trump Administration has been laser-focused on foreign nations, while our own nation continues to struggle quite substantially. Yesterday, the president even proposed a $1.5 TRILLION military budget. Are we reaching the mania phase, or what market traders call the “blowoff top” of Empire?

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The post Mike Benz – Venezuela: A Hard-Nosed Realist Analysis of What Really Went Down appeared first on LewRockwell.

This is Part 4 of our Going Going, Back Back To Venezuela stream.

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Robert Barnes joins Nick Rekieta to discuss the recent apprehension of Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela. Is this legally sound, is it preferable? Let’s talk about it.

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Black Libertarian: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston, by Marcus Epstein

Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty, by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

Here the tone is celebratory yet deeply probing. The Beitos’ exploration of the commonality of character and individualistic temperament of this trio of remarkable authors makes for fascinating reading. In particular, notice how they extensively deal with Lane’s pioneering work as a wartime columnist with The Pittsburgh Courier, one of America’s largest circulation Black newspapers,

But in the end, it is the damning fact that Rose Wilder Lane, her mother Laura (as well as Paterson and Hurston) strongly opposed Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the regimentation of his New Deal. That will never be abided by the Empire State sophisticates at The New Yorker (which endorsed Barack Obama). Hence this subtle attack on those middle class Americans who still see the writing of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose as possessing admirable virtues of individualism, self-reliance, independence, and resistance to authority.

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