#FreePress in #US vs #Mexico: Que es mas #Macho? - #Drugs

by Daniel Hopsicker

Three Mexican journalists—each a woman who has spent years living with the real possibility that the death threats she regularly receives will one day result in a slow, gruesome death—heroically continue to report the truth about the drug war in their country that no mainstream American journalist has the balls to report about the drug war in ours:

"Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie."

 

Carmen Aristegui (above,left) Lydia Cacho (above, center) and Anabel Hernández(above, right) report

Did #TomCruise #Helicopter Clip Doomed #Mena #Plane?

Daniel Hopsicker

Both men who died in the crash of a twin-engine plane in Colombia last week on the shoot for Tom Cruise’s new “Mena” movie have backgrounds more like those of spies, spooks, drug movers or clandestine agents than pilots on a film shoot. 

One owned offshore entities in the Netherland Antilles that controlled even more offshore entities, very useful for money laundering; owned a $2 million home on the Intracoastal Waterway with a dock handy for unloading knick-knacks and bric-a-brac from cruises in the Caribbean; and once lived in a small town in Texas next to a secret CIA base. 

The other was even more mysterious. 

He owned a company selling black helicopters and aerial surveillance packages to urban police departments and military clients around the world. 

Still, it's important to speak only good about the dead—especially the recently dead. Had news reports from