Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous
Posted by: John Phoenix
Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth.
The truth about the activities of the CIA and other western intelligence agencies is often stranger and more horrifying than the darkest works of dystopian fiction. Despite the wealth of irrefutable evidence of covert experimentation on human subjects throughout the modern era, corporate media and politicians still stick to the line that this is all just the wild imaginings of the dissatisfied and uneducated.
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Twenty years ago, on 10 December 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stre...