Contracts Reveal How the DEA Exercises Control Over Television, Film Productions

Nearly 200 pages of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) contracts show how the agency exercises control over TV and film productions.

Tom Secker
By Tom Secker
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Nearly 200 pages of Drug Enforcement Administration contracts with producers were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. They show for the first time how the agency interacts with television and film productions. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is quite active in the entertainment industry. It exercises stringent control over

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DEA Chief Admonishes Trump’s Endorsement Of Police Misconduct

Shadowproof obtained a memo by former DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg castigating Donald Trump following the President’s remarks encouraging police misconduct.

Ken Klippenstein
By Ken Klippenstein
Drug Enforcement Administration acting head Chuck Rosenberg is seated before a meeting of the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Committee to discuss implementation of the President's Executive Order 13773, at the Department of Justice, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Former Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Chief Chuck Rosenberg resigned on October 1 but not before castigating President Donald Trump in an internal memo obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Shadowproof. The July 29 memo, available to the public for the first time, opens with a reference to Trump’s exhortation that police not be “too

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DEA Whistleblowers Expose Govt Role in US Opiate Crisis

In the same week that he decided that the U.S. opiate epidemic is a “national emergency,” Trump was forced to withdraw his nominee for Drug Czar, when Rep. Tom Marino was recognized as a congressional water-carrier for Big Pharma opiate producers and one who has impeded the effort to battle the epidemic.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Seized prescription drugs displayed in a glass flask in the controlled substance room of the Utah state crime lab in Taylorsville, Utah. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

For years, illicit opiate use has been on the rise in the United States, leading to the worst drug crisis in U.S. history, one that has claimed ten times more lives in a single year than all terrorist attacks (including 9/11) on U.S. soil over the last two decades. While the federal government has made public attempts to curb the problem --

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Uruguay Government Defends Legal Cannabis As Global Bankers Bust Distributors

Uruguay’s president has defended the anti-prohibition law as banks boycott pharmacies involved in the cannabis trade, citing global regulations.

teleSUR
By teleSUR

Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez has reiterated his government's commitment to continue the legalized sale of recreational cannabis in pharmacies, despite protests by banks worried about running afoul of international regulations. The country's ruling party, the Broad Front, has been dealing with controversy after popular former President Jose

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DEA, CIA Linked to Venezuela Opposition Coup Attempt

More than 80 people miraculously avoided injury or death in a helicopter attack that targeted Venezuelan government buildings this week. The attack may have been part of an attempted coup supported by the U.S. as it seeks to topple Venezuela’s government to gain access to its massive oil reserves.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb

Opposition efforts to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are rapidly heating up, as months upon months of opposition protests have failed to make the inroads desired by the more extremist elements of the opposition and their foreign backers, particularly the United States. With the current government still hanging on to

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Two Years On, Bolivia’s President Says No Regrets Over Expelling DEA

Two years after his election in 2006, Morales ordered the closing of the DEA’s office in La Paz and the U.S. military base in Chimore.

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By teleSUR
Bolivia's President Evo, cnter, attends a ritual ceremony honoring Pachamama, Mother Earth, at the government palace in La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

President Evo Morales recalled today that the expulsion of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. military base allowed Bolivia to recover economic and political sovereignty. “I do not regret the decision about the DEA and the military base,” the president said in a public ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the municipality of Villa

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