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Bookey Best Book Summary AppDark Alliance: An Engaging Audio Summary of Gary Webb's Investigative Masterpiece1 What's Dark Alliance
"Dark Alliance" by Gary Webb investigates the alleged connections between the CIA, drug trafficking, and the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States during the 1980s. The book presents evidence suggesting that the CIA was complicit in the smuggling of cocaine into the U.S. to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, which subsequently led to devastating consequences for communities, particularly in Los Angeles. Webb's investigative journalism highlights issues of government accountability, systemic racism, and the socio-economic impact of the drug trade, ultimately challenging readers to examine the intersections of power, politics, and crime in America.
2...2025-03-2802 minBookey Best Book Summary AppDark Alliance: An Engaging Audio Summary of Gary Webb's Investigative Masterpiece1 What's Dark Alliance
"Dark Alliance" by Gary Webb investigates the alleged connections between the CIA, drug trafficking, and the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States during the 1980s. The book presents evidence suggesting that the CIA was complicit in the smuggling of cocaine into the U.S. to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, which subsequently led to devastating consequences for communities, particularly in Los Angeles. Webb's investigative journalism highlights issues of government accountability, systemic racism, and the socio-economic impact of the drug trade, ultimately challenging readers to examine the intersections of power, politics, and crime in America.
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SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyWebb Telescope Confirms Hubble Tension, Vesta's Liquid Mysteries, and Mars' Explosive New Year: S28E01SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 01Webb Telescope Confirms Hubble TensionThe James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the Hubble Tension, challenging the current understanding of cosmic theory. New observations reveal that the Universe is expanding faster now than during its early years, suggesting gaps in our understanding of cosmic physics. The study, led by Adam Rees and Thomas Barber, confirms the accuracy of Hubble's measurements, pointing to unknown factors in the Universe's expansion.Liquid Erosion on Asteroid VestaA new hypothesis proposes that liquids could have carved out gullies on the airless...2025-01-0132 min
Cyrus Webb's tracksAuthor Gary E. Parker discusses #ThePlaybook on Conversations LIVE ~ #newrelease #bookchat #authorinterviewAuthor Gary E. Parker stops by Conversations LIVE radio show with host Cyrus Webb to discuss his love of storytelling and new book THE PLAYBOOK. www.garyeparker.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cyrus-webb-s-tracks--1422267/support.2024-10-3108 min
Everything Everywhere DailyWhat Has the James Webb Space Telescope Discovered (So Far)?On December 25, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched from the European Space Agency launch center in French Guyana. After six months of testing and configuring the telescope, in July of 2022, its first images were transmitted. Since then, we have received a flood of images and data that have caused astronomers to rethink much of what we know about the universe. Learn more about the discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope so far on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.Sponsors
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SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyS27E98: Uranus's Hidden Ocean, Stellar Births through Webb's Eyes, and Neutron Star MysteriesIn this episode of SpaceTime, we explore the possibility of a hidden ocean on Uranus's moon Ariel. Discover the Webb Space Telescope's new insights into star formation and delve into the mysteries of neutron star mergers. Join us for these fascinating updates and more!00:00:00 - This is spacetime series 27 episode 98 for broadcast on the 14 August 202400:00:43 - Growing speculation that Uranuss moon Ariel could harbour a hidden subsurface ocean00:12:46 - Scientists use supercomputers to study how quickly black holes form from neutron star merger00:16:30 - A new study claims thinking too hard can be unpleasant00:19:22...2024-08-1423 min
Spy CultureSubscribercast #89 – Gary Webb, the CIA and CocaineGary Webb is one of the journalists who inspired me, and his Dark Alliance series on the CIA complicity in...
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ClandesTimeSubscribercast #89 – Gary Webb, the CIA and CocaineGary Webb is one of the journalists who inspired me, and his Dark Alliance series on the CIA complicity in... The post Subscribercast #89 – Gary Webb, the CIA and Cocaine first appeared on Spy Culture.(Read more...)2024-06-2343 min
The Last PodcastTLP #13 - The Tragic Tale of Gary WebbIn the mid-1990s, Gary Webb, a seasoned investigative reporter, published a series of articles that shook the foundations of American society. His "Dark Alliance" series for the San Jose Mercury News alleged that the CIA was complicit in the trafficking of cocaine into the United States, fueling the devastating crack epidemic that ravaged inner-city communities. Webb faced a fierce backlash. Major media outlets and government officials vehemently denied his allegations, leading to professional isolation and personal despair. Webb's career was irreparably damaged, and in 2004, he was found dead under mysterious circumstances that were officially ruled a suicide.
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Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy NationGoing Beyond the Data: The Translation of Epidemiology with Dr. Tiffany Gary-WebbIn this enlightening episode of Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Nation, we delve into what's in the ideal neighborhood and the importance of collaboration across disciplines with Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb an esteemed researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. We delve into the intricacies of creating the ideal neighborhood, exploring how collaborative efforts across disciplines play a crucial role in shaping vibrant communities.
Dr. Gary-Webb shares insights from her groundbreaking work, including the Think PHRESH study, which examines the intersection of environment, health, and policy. Through her expertise in translating research findings...2024-02-2646 min
Grow Your Business and Grow Your WealthKristyn Webb🎣 Are you protecting your intellectual property? Learn how to safeguard your ideas and innovations with expert advice from Kristyn Webb, an intellectual property law specialist.📝 In this episode, Gary Heldt interviews Kristyn Webb, a Fishman Stewart law firm associate. Kristyn shares her journey into intellectual property law and discusses the importance of protecting intellectual property in the age of AI. She highlights the challenges and opportunities in patent and copyright protection for AI-generated content. Kristyn also emphasizes the need for businesses to conduct IP audits and offers insights on leveraging intellectual property assets...2024-02-2134 min
Stuff They Don't Want You To KnowCLASSIC: The Dark Alliance: Did the US government and druglords kill Gary Webb?Stubborn, determined and tenancious, Gary Webb was the quintessential investigative journalist. In his work for a newspaper called The Mercury News, Gary explored the relationship between right-wing revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua, the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States, and the actions of the Central Intelligence Agency. While the series was published, multiple mainstream newspapers joined together to write editorials criticizing him, and ultimately his own editors turned on him, as well. Gary Webb later died from two gunshots to the head. This was officially deemed a suicide, and there's no wonder people think there's more to the story.2024-02-1353 min
Aspects of HistoryGreat British Commanders: Douglas Haig with Gary Sheffield & Gordon CorriganOn the 29th January 1928 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig died of a heart attack aged 66. Less than ten years earlier he had led the British Army to their greatest victories in the 100 Day Campaign of 1918. As he lay in state thousands of his soldiers marched past paying homage.Two distinguished historians, Gary Sheffield and Gordon Corrigan, join Ollie to discuss why Haig deserves to be remembered alongside Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington and Slim.Gary Sheffield LinksMilitary History Plus PodcastForgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and RealitiesDouglas...2023-12-301h 03Aspects of HistoryGreat British Commanders: Douglas Haig with Gary Sheffield & Gordon CorriganOn the 29th January 1928 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig died of a heart attack aged 66. Less than ten years earlier he had led the British Army to their greatest victories in the 100 Day Campaign of 1918. As he lay in state thousands of his soldiers marched past paying homage.Two distinguished historians, Gary Sheffield and Gordon Corrigan, join Ollie to discuss why Haig deserves to be remembered alongside Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington and Slim.Gary Sheffield LinksMilitary History Plus PodcastForgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and RealitiesDouglas...2023-12-301h 03
Word of Mom RadioDr. Tiffany Gary-Webb on The Village Vision Podcast with Dr. Crystal MorrisonDr. Tiffany Gary-Webb received a BS in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University and an MHS and PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is currently the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a tenured Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health. Her current research agenda is the culmination of her 20+ years of experience working to understand the social/environmental determinants of chronic disease and implementing interventions to improve prevention and control.
Find out more on The Village Vision Podcast. Connect with Dr. Gary-Webb...2023-11-2128 min
Mysterious PalsWas Gary Webb Assassinated or Did He Commit Suicide?-Episode #04Note to Listeners:
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Was Journalist Gary Webb Assassinated or Did He Commit Suicide? Gary Webb was an American investigative journalist whose suicide in 2004 is considered controversial. In 1996 he reported that the CIA, in order to fund the Contras of Nicaragua in the 80s, took part in the trafficking of crack cocaine into the US sparking the drug epidemic. Co...2023-10-091h 02
Art and Jacob Do America332 Gary Webb and the Dark Alliance Between the CIA and The Cocaine CowboysWe all know about the drug "CRACK". If you're around our age you're also aware of the effects that drug had in our communities (particularly African American communities).
What if I told you this epidemic was an unfortunate result of the CIA turning a blind eye to Nicaraguan drug traffickers bringing TONS of cocaine in to America to help fund the CIA backed Contras in their country? Seems far fetched right?
Well thanks to investigative journalist Gary Webb's research and 3-part article titled "Dark Alliance" this became more "Conspiracy Fact" than "Conspiracy theory" .
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SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyS26E113: Webb's Dwarfs, Mars' Mineral Mystery, and the Neutrino EnigmaThis episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the help of Incogni - safeguarding your privacy online. To get a whopping 60% off your subscription as a SpaceTime listener, just visit www.incogni.com/stuartgarySpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 26 Episode 113 Show Notes - **Webb Telescope's Local Discoveries**: NASA's James Webb space telescope, renowned for peering into the distant universe, has unveiled a closer mystery. Astronomers report the discovery of 21 intriguing brown dwarfs. - **Mars' Mineral Mystery**: Earth boasts nearly 6,000 known minerals. Yet, Mars, a planet with many Earth-like qualities, has revealed only 161 minerals in over half a...2023-09-2033 min
"Conversations LIVE!" with Cyrus WebbDr. Gary Simonds talks #DeathsPaleFlag on #ConversationsLIVEHost Cyrus Webb welcomes Dr. Gary Simonds to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss his new book DEATH'S PALE FLAG.2023-06-2617 min
The Fact HunterEpisode 167: Prison Industrial Complex/War on Drugs/Gary WebbThe prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the relationship between a government and the various businesses that benefit from institutions of incarceration (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and psychiatric hospitals). The term is most often used in the context of the contemporary United States, where the rapid expansion of the U.S. inmate population has resulted in political influence and economic profits for private prison companies and other businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. According to this concept, incarceration...2023-05-262h 28
Aspects of HistoryThe First World War with Gary SheffieldThis week's guest is the distinguished historian Gary Sheffield, author of Forgotten Victory: First World War Myths & Realities, and we explode some of those myths that have developed over the years. Thanks to the great TV show Blackadder, and it is great, a view developed that the generals, and in particular British generals, were callous upper class twits who drank fine wines as their .Why did the war start, and who was to blame? Was it lions led by donkeys? What was Haig like as a general? All this and much more is answered.Gary...2023-02-041h 03Aspects of HistoryThe First World War with Gary SheffieldThis week's guest is the distinguished historian Gary Sheffield, author of Forgotten Victory: First World War Myths & Realities, and we explode some of those myths that have developed over the years. Thanks to the great TV show Blackadder, and it is great, a view developed that the generals, and in particular British generals, were callous upper class twits who drank fine wines as their .Why did the war start, and who was to blame? Was it lions led by donkeys? What was Haig like as a general? All this and much more is answered.Gary...2023-02-041h 03
Push to Talk with Bruce Webb: A Helicopter PodcastEpisode 5: Be The Light (w/ Gary Maddux)Gary Maddux served 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a stint in presidential squadron HMX-1. After losing his daughter to suicide in 2019, Gary has dedicated his life to mental health outreach and awareness. Now working to become a licensed counselor, Gary hopes to provide others with the insight he's wrestled from loss. 2022-12-221h 09
Cyrus Webb's tracksGary Scharf of #PMI shares details of 50 Most Influential Projects of 2022 on #ConversationsLIVE ~ @pminstitute #projectmanagers #workplaceHost Cyrus Webb welcomes Gary Scharf, Leader of North American Client Engagement for Project Management Institute (PMI) to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss this years 50 Most Influential Projects of 2022. www.pmi.org2022-12-1508 min
SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyJames Webb Space Telescope Develops a Serious Technical ProblemThe Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 102*James Webb Space Telescope develops a serious technical problemNASA’s James Webb space telescope has developed a problem with a key part of its spectroscope system used to analyse to chemical composition of objects...*But that hasn’t stopped it making some spectacular observations of Mars and NeptuneNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first stunning images and spectra of the red planet Mars and the distant ice giant Neptune.*Australia’s first major astronomical observatoryThis year marked the two...2022-09-2841 min
DoorWays® Ministry NetworkFalling Flat with Gary WebbWhat happens when you fall flat? Not necessarily a disastrous failure but maybe the next closest thing. How does one recover from that? In Episode 5 we’re joined again by Gary Webb, the founder and director of OCJ Kids in Phoenix, AZ, In addition to talking about recovery from failure, we’ll also hear how Gary grows leadership in his staff and team of volunteers.2022-09-2714 minDoorWays® Ministry NetworkGary Webb - Leadership in the Foster CommunityRev. Gary Webb, the co-founder and president of OCJ Kids in Phoenix, AZ, is with us today. We’ll chat with Gary about their ministry to foster kids within the community and how their teams work to meet needs not previously addressed. While he says he doesn’t see himself as a leader, we’ll let you decide if that’s true or not.2022-09-2015 min
SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyHas James Webb Already Found Some of the Earliest Galaxies in the UniverseThe Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 85*Has James Webb already found some of the earliest galaxies in the universe?Astronomers are speculating that NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope may have already discovered the most distant and hence earliest galaxy in the universe.*New telescopes to see gravitational wave sourcesAustralia is about to get a new telescope array specifically designed to find the sources of gravitational waves generated by events such as neutron star collisions.*Planning continues on the Lunar Gateway space stationJapan has confirmed it...2022-08-0126 min
SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & AstronomyJames Webb Reveals its Spectacular First ImagesThe Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 25 Episode 79*James Webb reveals its spectacular first imagesThe first images from the new James Webb Space Telescope have stunned the world with their spectacular beauty and clarity.*Russia officially kicked off the ExoMars mission over UkraineThe European Space Agency has officially terminated cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos on the joint EXO-Mars mission with to put a rover on the surface of the red planet to drill for signs of life.*A successful maiden flight of Europe’s...2022-07-1850 min
REalityAn interview with James Webb, a top 10 RIS Media Rookie of the Year FinalistOn today’s episode of REality we’re talking with Rookie real estate agent, James Webb. James started his real estate career in 2020 after being laid off in the pandemic. With no experience and no contacts James hustled his way to $16 million in his first year. Join us today as we uncover exactly how he did it. On today's episode, you'll learn:3:00 James' background5:50 how he landed on a firm decision7:00 building the james webb brand11:00 The strategy behind james' real estate business12:55 Early things James did to get his busin...2022-06-0529 min