Abstract

Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | August 24, 1998 issue

add to cart   close window

Two years ago, almost to the day, Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance," on contra complicity in the trafficking of drugs into areas such as South Central Los Angeles, appeared in the "San Jose Mercury News." This summer, on June 7, 2004 Cable News Network (CNN) aired a report produced by Jack Smith and April Oliver charging that US forces had used sarin nerve gas in Laos. Within a drastically compressed time frame, they experienced the same treatment as Webb, plus a meretricious attack by a couple of corporate lawyers, Floyd Abrams and David Kohier, brought together by CNN to scrutinize the program which so violently angered the Pentagon and Henry Kissinger.

See Also:

TELEVISION programs; WEBB, Gary; DARK Alliance (Book); ABRAMS, Floyd; KOHIER, David; LAOS
ARCHIVE HOME
Pricing
Articles are sold in 'packs,' which are priced as follows:

1 for 2.95
4 for 9.95
10 for 19.95
50 for 34.95
300 for 149.95
Refund Policy
Sales of archive individual articles, full issues or article packs are final and no refunds will be issued.
Access for libraries
help
Search
Browse
Sample Article

My Articles

You must be logged in to view your articles.

User name

Password

I don't have a login.

I forgot my user name/password.
Advertisement
Advertisement

Blogs

» The Beat

Obama's "Finish the Job" Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge | But Appropriations Committee chair Obey warns the move would "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy."
John Nichols
Posted at 10:45 PM ET

» The Notion

Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
11 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
40 Comments

» Act Now!

Coal Country | "This is a civil war."
Peter Rothberg
83 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
114 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman