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> Tag: Iran-Contra

History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes

Blood of Brothers by Stephen Kinzer

April 15, 2020 by Wanderlustful 2 Comments

Although Nicaragua is important to me for family reasons (my brother has lived there for the last 5 years), the more I learn about its history the more I think everyone- particularly Americans- would find it fascinating and should be learning about it.  Blood of Brothers is history filtered through memoir, narrated by being Stephen Kinzer, formerly an NYT bureau chief stationed in Nicaragua.  Kinzer lived in Nicaragua during its tumultuous and horrific civil war, book ended with the Sandinistas ousting the brutal Somoza dictators […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: Blood of Brothers, Contra, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Reagan, Reporting, Sandinista, Stephen Kinzer

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: Blood of Brothers, Contra, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Reagan, Reporting, Sandinista, Stephen Kinzer ·
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Going in, I expected truth. Coming out the other side, I think I just found a conspiracy theory.

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

April 22, 2018 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I came into this book, after having read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and a few other things that I can’t immediately recall, thinking that the basic premise of this book was an historical fact agreed upon by all knowledgeable people. The CIA helped funnel cocaine into American cities as a way of helping to fund the Contra’s in the 1980s. Whether this was all a concerted effort on the part of the white establishment to intentionally suppress African American agency is an issue […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: conspiracy theory, crime reporting, Dark Alliance, drugs, Gary Webb, Iran-Contra, Michelle Alexander, Ronald Reagan, The New Jim Crow

ingres77's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: conspiracy theory, crime reporting, Dark Alliance, drugs, Gary Webb, Iran-Contra, Michelle Alexander, Ronald Reagan, The New Jim Crow ·
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