Here's an excellent piece from a Demcracynow interview with Charles Bowden. Once again, Chuck is a voice crying from the wilderness:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/16/charles_bowden_on_the_war_next

Michael Ruppert is the subject of a new movie called Collapse. For those that don't know about Mike, he is a former Los Angeles police narcotics and homicide detective, famous for confronting former CIA director John Deutch about CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
 
Mike Ruppert lost his job because he tried to tell the truth.
 
A few years later, Mike attempted to tell the world why we really are involved in Afghanistan and the rest of Eurasia and received an equally chilly reception.
 
Despite numerous postive reviews and the highest rating of any documentary film at the Toronto Film Festival (Collapse got an A, Michael Moore's latest got a C), you'll have to make a special effort to watch this film.

Ed Vulliamy stopped by our Gonzales County ranch for a couple of days near the end of a six month stay on the border. Somehow I missed his report when it came out. While some regurgitate the words of others, Ed came, asked, saw and listened.

Here is his last report from the border, concerning the Zetas:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/zetas-drugs-mexico-us-gangs

Ed is also writing a book on this subject called Amexia.

The December 2nd edition of the Washington Post featured a story on a documentary film called The sins of my father. The film tells the story of Sebastian Escobar, the son of Pablo Escobar, the former head of the infamous Medellin, Colombia cocaine cartel. The movie has not been released but there is a trailer at the link. As usual, the true story will not serve the interests of those trying to politicize the drug trade as a matter of left vs. right, good vs evil.

Chuck Bowden has written another piece, gut-wrentching in its honesty, accuracy, and non-partisan perspective. You see there isn't always a right or a wrong, a right or a left. There's the truth and then there are the alternatives to that truth.

Read it here:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/we-bring-fear

Today's San Antonio Express News contains an article descibing the kidnapping and torture of a Mexican defense attorney in rather gruesome detail.

Read it here:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/Lawyer_makes_plea_to_save_his_own_life.html

If you thought electing Barack Obama president would bring an end to the disaterous war on drugs, think again.

Here's a link to an article appearing at the Huffington post outlining an increase in funding dedicated to the Mexican military.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/congress-sends-drug-war-s_b_206145.html

An excerpt: