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Who Killed the Nazi Botanist Trying to Wipe Out Cocaine?
A former SS scientist may have been set to destroy the Bolivian coca crop with his secret bioweapon - until he got whacked. By Mat Youkee.
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Meet the CIA
Guns, Drugs and Money. By Jeffrey St. Clair, Alexander Cockburn.
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Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland
Consolidation is often seen as a consumer problem. But it may also reduce competition for workers, especially outside big cities, holding down wages. By Noam Scheiber, Ben Casselman.
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All Politics is Local
As is the case with everything that Trump touches, the entire hustle is about the money. By Adele M. Stan.
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The death of the internet
If we lose this, we lose everything. By Joshua Topolsky.
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Comcast Wants You to Think It Supports Net Neutrality While It Pushes for Net Neutrality to Be Destroyed
The company’s promise not to throttle traffic is full of holes. By April Glaser.
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Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal
Comcast still won't block or throttle—but paid prioritization may be on the way. By Jon Brodkin.
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AT&T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a city’s broadband competition law
Bad news for Google Fiber: Nashville utility pole ordinance invalidated by judge. By Jon Brodkin.
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How the sugar industry tried to hide the health effects of its product 50 years ago
Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee. By Alessandra Potenza.
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Game of Drones: Mexico’s Cartels Have a Deadly New Weapon
Weaponized drones – ISIS-style aerial IEDs – are just the latest paramilitary hardware the cartels are adding to the their arsenals. By Jeremy Kryt.
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A Gangster Place in the Sun
How Spain’s Fight Against the Mob Revealed Russian Power Networks. By Sebastian Rotella.
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Corporate Consolidation
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies—and Win
Elizabeth Warren and her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, provide a roadmap for the left to make antitrust reform a reality. By Brian Beutler.
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'Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico's Drug War Isn't About Drugs
The Zetas and groups like them have morphed into transnational corporations with interests in everything from coal mining and the extraction of oil and gas to cornering the market on avocados. By Melissa del Bosque.
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The Drug Runners
The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. By Ryan Goldberg.
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The Brutal Rise of El Mencho
With El Chapo behind bars, an even more dangerous drug lord has emerged. On the hunt for Mexico’s next-generation narco. By Josh Eells.
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How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it. By Ginger Thompson.
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Missing the Real Noriega Story
The mainstream media’s obituaries for Gen. Manuel Noriega missed the real story: the U.S. government’s rank hypocrisy in justifying a bloody invasion that deepened Panama’s role in the drug trade, explains Jonathan Marshall.
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The Heroin Business Is Booming in America
Doctors are making it tougher to get prescription opioids, but cartels are still making big profits. By Jeanna Smialek.
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Mexican journalist and CPJ awardee Javier Valdez Cárdenas murdered
The Mexican prosecutor for crimes against freedom of expression in Mexico should swiftly investigate the murder of Javier Valdez Cárdenas and bring all those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Valdez was shot and killed today near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.
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