#narco-terrorism

A bit of March 26th history...

127 - Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (pictured)

1484 - William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables

1812 - Earthquake measuring 7.7 on Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela and kills 15,000 - 20,000 people

1820 - Future Mormon church leader Joseph Smith has his “First Vision” in wooded area of NY, according to Mormon scholars

1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid

1942 - 1st “Eichmann Transport” to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps

1997 - 39 bodies found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News The argument increasingly used to justify U.S. actions against Venezuela is deceptively simple: Nicolás Maduro was never really president, he had already been convicted as a narco-leader, there was a bounty on his head, and therefore normal legal limits no longer apply. It is an argument that sounds decisive and morally satisfying. It is also…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News New York, New York, USAJanuary 8, 2026 The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly revised its long-running criminal case against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, removing one of the most politically charged claims attached to the indictment: that Maduro personally led a formal drug cartel. The change has triggered widespread confusion,…

By WPS News Staff Reporters As the still closed U.S. government moves to brand Cartel de los Soles — the Venezuelan network accused of drugs and corruption — as a recognized “terrorist” entity, it’s essential to confront what this really means: the resurrection of the old playbook, dressed up in modern fear-mongering. This shift from “drug-trafficking” to “terrorism” risks dragging the United…

In a world of nukes, bioweapons, and narco-terrorists, U.S. MUST reform its intelligence capabilities

By Charles “Sam” Faddis

Excerpted from the second in a three-part series, “There May Not Be a Second Time,” which is examining the state of human intelligence and the necessity for reform.

Almost seventy-five years ago the United States of  America crushed Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Japan. Ever since, from Korea, to Vietnam, to Afghanistan, we have been looking to duplicate that success,…

Video: How the DEA invented “narco-terrorism” (vox)

Last updated: [relativedate], [relativetime] Three months after 9/11, George W. Bush said drug trafficking funded terrorist networks. Two months after that, the White House bought two Super Bowl ads saying the same for $1.9 million each. Now, 15 years into the merging of the war on drugs with the war on terror, ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson has followed every public “narco-terrorism” case the…