Guardian of London Gives Accolades to NarcoSphere

We have belatedly learned that The Guardian, one of London's leading print- and online-media organizations, has given significant credence to a news report that NarcoSphere and the Narco News Bulletin provided in recent months. Relying exclusively on the report, Mercenaries to Play Greater Role in Future U.S.-Led Drug Interdiction, Crop Eradication Missions, journalist Rob Gowland on April 20 wrote:
US government "black ops" — clandestine operations that would not be allowed if publicly acknowledged — are a source of anger and embarrassment to democratically- minded Americans. In their efforts to uncover and expose these anti-democratic acts, they scour official US government documents for scraps of evidence that may have slipped through.

And sometimes they hit pay dirt. Of sorts....

After reviewing "recently distributed federal-procurement documents" (lists with specifications of the various things US government departments and agencies propose to buy in the current period), "war on drugs" commentator Stephen Peacock in The Narco News Bulletin was able to draw some interesting conclusions.

Narco News keeps watch on the "war on drugs" and by so doing performs a service for us all. For the "war on drugs" is but one front in the big US corporations' war against not only the American people but the people of the whole world.

Stephen Peacock's perusal of the procurement documents revealed that "the US Dept of Defense (DoD) and the State Dept are preparing to intensify and expand" their military and quasi-military activities "in South America, Central America and the Caribbean" under the convenient cover of greatly expanded efforts at "drug interdiction and aerial crop- eradication".

For the full text of Gowland's article, visit:
http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve05/1224cult.html

Also worthy of mention is a decision by the War Profiteers initiative of CorpWatch to reprint the story in its entirety -- while simultaneously providing full credit to NarcoSphere and to this author, while also providing its readers with a link to the NarcoSphere Web site.  
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12033

The original NarcoSphere story can be accessed via the following link:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/user/Stephen%20Pe acock/notebook

About Stephen Peacock

I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.

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Biography
I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.