As anyone who pays close attention can tell you, many important events never make it into the media. But what’s less known is that the media -- even the mainstream media -- often do report on things that matter, but these stories die a quick death. They usually appear as a single story in a newspaper or magazine somewhere, and then they’re gone. No follow-ups, no spreading of the story by other media, no public outcry. They’re simply flushed down the memory hole. In this article, we’ll look at some of the stories that deserve wider attention and a longer lifespan than they got.

     Oftentimes an important story will be covered by a wire service, but the media outlets, such as newspapers and TV news, choose to ignore it. That’s what happened to a disturbing Reuters article about the West Nile Virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported that the sometimes-fatal virus is spreading alarmingly fast, and in late 2000 a CDC scientist told Reuters, “For all we can tell, nothing is going to stop it from spreading throughout the entire US.” A warning like that from the US government’s disease-tracking agency might strike some people as noteworthy, but perhaps the corporate media didn’t want to alarm us with the facts.¹

     Authorities unleashed an avalanche of almost 11,000 pages of Columbine material for public consumption on November 21, 2000. Many news outlets noted that some new information was revealed, such as Harris and Klebold’s taunting of victims and clues to their motives for the bloodbath. The Denver Post pointed out that the mountain of documents is missing several key bits, including detailed ballistics reports and crime scene photos. But only the independent APBnews.com had the guts to mention that among the released material is a key eyewitness statement from a student who told authorities she saw a third gunman -- who brandished a sawed-off shotgun -- with Dylan Klebold during the massacre. A sheriff’s investigator wrote that the girl “told me that the party she saw was about 25 to 30 years old, had a thick muscular neck and muscular build, and that Eric Harris was too scrawny to be the same party she observed.”²

     Speaking of fishy events surrounding high profile deaths, consider the gruesome demise of James Andanson, a paparazzo who had hounded Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed the week before their deaths. Authorities found the photographer’s body -- charred so badly that DNA had to be used to identify him -- in a burnt out car in an area of France that the police described as “very discreet and isolated.” Interestingly, Andanson owned a white Fiat, the kind of car that hit Diana’s car right before it wrapped around a column in a Parisian tunnel. Police tested the paint on Andanson’s ride, and claimed that it didn’t match the paint left behind by the still unidentified white Fiat.³

     In March 2000, an explosion killed one person and injured 23 at the Philips Petroleum plastics plant in Pasadena, Texas. It was the fourth explosion to rock the plant in the previous 12 months and the third fatal explosion there since 1989. Philips was pissed that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) faulted the company and levied a $2.5 million fine. In a just world, some executives would’ve gone to the slammer.⁴

     IBM is facing around 200 lawsuits by employees alleging that conditions at the computer giant’s chip plants caused birth defects in their children. Big Blue settled the first case with a couple who believe their son was born blind and with facial deformities because of toxic fumes at IBM’s plant at East Fishkill, New York. Under the undisclosed terms of the agreement, IBM admits to no liability, naturally.⁵

     Disney’s amusement parks haven’t been so amusing lately, but you probably wouldn’t know that unless you’re a regular reader of the LA Times’ local section. Disneyland has been the site of a string of accidents, mostly affecting children. In September 2000, a four-year-old boy was dragged underneath a car on Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin after falling out. He now has brain damage. That December, a 15-year-old boy had his leg crushed between a ride and a guardrail. The next month saw two accidents: A woman and her baby were thrown to the ground on the Pirates of the Caribbean (the mother suffered head injuries), and a six-year-old girl lost most of a finger to a rifle on Tom Sawyer Island.⁶

     Still, things could be worse. Just look at Disneyworld in Florida. Disney doesn’t like to talk about it, but every so often someone buys the farm at the “happiest place on earth.” The latest victim was an unnamed man who witnesses say simply climbed out of his boat during the ride on Splash Mountain at Disneyworld. He got creamed by the next boat, and was taken to a hospital, where he went to the Magic Kingdom in the Sky.⁷

     Record numbers of kids are being labeled with the trendy diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which then justifies the use of the powerful drug Ritalin. It just so happens that the vast majority of children diagnosed with ADHD don’t have it, but instead have learning disabilities, depression, diabetes, or other physical and mental conditions. The highly respected Texas Children’s Hospital performs extensive testing on children who supposedly have ADHD, and their results are shocking: A mere 30 percent of the children labeled with the disorder actually have it. In other words, seven out of ten children getting Ritalin rammed down their throats really need special education, therapy, treatment for thyroid problems, and other help that they’re not receiving.⁸

     The medical establishment is fond of saying that Ritalin (and other such stimulants used to treat children diagnosed with ADHD) cause psychosis in less than one percent of kids. However, a study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry found that 9 percent of ADHD kids who were given Ritalin developed psychoses, while none of the drug-free ADHD kids went bonkers. Furthermore, the study’s authors noted, “The [psychotic] symptoms ceased as soon as the medication was removed.”⁹

     Of course, we shouldn’t forget the very plausible theory that ADHD doesn’t exist at all. As Psychiatric whistleblower Peter Breggin, MD, told the Washington Post: “All ADHD is, is a list of symptoms that irritate teachers. To call it a disease is ridiculous, and to say it’s hard to treat is meaningless. What we’re doing is drugging our kids instead of improving family life and schools.” ¹⁰

     In many areas of the US, various government bodies spray massive quantities of pesticides in order to fight insect-borne illnesses. A movement against this practice has sprung up, but it has been marginalized by the medical establishment and the mainstream media. It got a boost in early 2001 when six workers in New York City filed a complaint with OSHA after they drove trucks spraying the pesticide Anvil, which is supposed to kill mosquitoes and, thus, stop the spread of the West Nile Virus. The men claim that not only were they not properly trained, but that they weren’t given any protective clothing and their safety concerns were ridiculed by management. After spending 8-hour shifts spraying this gunk -- which the manufacturer warns is harmful if absorbed through the skin -- the men developed a host of problems, including dizziness, shakiness, labored breathing, nose bleeds, headaches, diarrhea, joint pain, and sexual dysfunction.¹¹

     More members of the US military -- including officers -- are resisting mandatory anthrax vaccines and paying a price, usually a general discharge or a court martial, a practice that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.¹²Meanwhile, the evidence that they’re right to worry continues to mount.

     In one of the most damning revelations so far, Stars and Stripes (not the Army newspaper, but a privately-published magazine of the same name) got its hands on a copy of a report from the Food and Drug Administration. While inspecting a plant of BioPort, Inc. -- the sole manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine used by the military -- the FDA found a teensy problem: In June 2000 an Army sergeant died of a rare blood disease that developed suddenly after she started receiving the series of anthrax shots. The Pentagon informed BioPort that the death appeared vaccine-related, but the company not only didn’t investigate, it also failed to report the death to the FDA.

     Not only that, but according to the feds’ report, BioPort apparently doesn’t keep track of reports of adverse effects, nor does it investigate them. Three lots of the vaccine failed initial sterility tests, and -- despite warnings from the FDA -- the company continued to use “bovine-derived materials of unknown geographical origin” in the production of the vaccine, which could lead to the spread of Mad Cow disease to humans.¹³

     Tens of thousands of people who were strip-searched by the New York Police Department after minor infractions sued the city, which settled the case for a whopping $50 million. Many of the defendants had been first-time offenders who were nabbed for loitering, jumping subway turnstiles, and other crimes against humanity. According to the New York Times, “The lawsuit recounts several cases of men and women with no arrest record who said they felt humiliated as they were ordered to disrobe, lift their breasts or genitals for visual inspections, and to squat and cough.”¹⁴

     Speaking of New York’s finest, two of them have been charged by federal authorities with being part of a Brooklyn robbery gang. They’re facing charges of stealing from drug dealers, plotting and/or committing armed robbery of businesses (including a $500,000 heist at a jewelry store), and conspiring to kill a fellow officer. The allegations came to light after the two had already been fired for lying about a gun arrest.¹⁵

     Meanwhile, in Chicago the State’s Attorney offered a prisoner a sweetheart deal if he’d drop his claim that in 1983 police tortured a confession out of him by putting a shotgun in his mouth and using a cattle prod on his genitals. The con took the deal, and once again the city ducked the opportunity to find out what really happened. As the Chicago Tribune summed it up: “Nearly overwhelming evidence shows that the Chicago Police tortured confessions out of scores of suspects from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. City lawyers have admitted it, internal Police Department investigations have confirmed it, state and federal courts have recognized it and internationally respected experts in police torture have testified to it.”¹⁶

     A former senior official at the Immigration and Naturalization Service was sentenced to 18 months in the slammer “for releasing illegal immigrants from a downtown lockup and turning them over to a partner who held them for ransom from their relatives in the United States.”¹⁷

     A Border Patrol agent shot a man who was in Mexican territory, wounding him in the leg. Authorities first said that the Mexican -- who was trying to illegally cross from Tijuana into San Diego -- was shot in the US, but later changed their story. According to the Associated Press: “Border Patrol spokesman Roy Villareal said the shooting could be ruled justified because agents are allowed to fire their weapons when their life, or someone else’s, is in danger. The agents said the migrant threw a rock that almost hit one of them in the head.”¹⁸

     In the space of a week (January 24-31, 2001), several articles reported on police officers in different states who were charged with child molestation or related offenses¹⁹, (including a sheriff’s deputy in Indiana who was suspended over allegations that he repeatedly molested a ten-year-old boy, with some incidents taking place in his patrol car²⁰), one who had been found guilty of molestation²¹, another who was charged with sexually assaulting a woman he pulled over²², yet another who had been accused of forcing a woman to blow him in his police car²³, and a vice cop who was arrested for beating and robbing an eighteen-year-old prostitute.²⁴

     Have you seen a couple of nuclear fuel rods laying around? If so, please tell officials at the Millstone nuke plant in Waterford, Connecticut. Although it’s been kept relatively quiet, two of the plant’s spent rods have been missing since 1980. Though they could be used to make plutonium, officials have assured us that the rods are certainly either safely stored in the plant’s fuel pool or were sent to a disposal facility in another state.²⁵

     In the Russian Arctic, an area called “the world’s biggest nuclear graveyard” by The Guardian of London. When the Russians are done with a nuclear powered submarine, they just dump it on the shores of the Kola Peninsula like a broken TV set. Now their junkyard contains approximately 300 nuclear reactors and thousands of spent nuclear rods, none of which is properly stored. The European Union has urged a massive clean-up effort before the entire globe gets contaminated.²⁶

     Scotland is currently embroiled in its largest child abuse case ever, and guess what? The people being accused are the monks who ran a Catholic residential school for boys aged seven to eleven. According to the Irish Times, “Former pupils at the school, which closed in 1982, have alleged they were tortured, beaten and sexually molested by a number of the brothers and civilian staff.”

     After investigating for three years, the police have issued a report that details abuse so heinous that you have to wonder if the “brothers” were auditioning for the next Inquisition. The former students claim to have been viciously beaten with various implements, including riding crops. Said one, “They were constantly beating us. They told us they’d beat the devil out of us. One brother whipped me with a horsewhip. He’d tied knots in the end to make it even more painful and I was beaten solidly for 10 minutes.” The now-adults also say that they were sexually fondled and forced to eat their own vomit. When the monks really wanted to have some fun, they’d electrically shock the children by making them grab the exposed wires of a generator.²⁷

     Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, around 3,000 children were brought by their parents to Catholic orphanages in Canada. The clergy took the kids to conspiring physicians, who would declare them retarded. This allowed the nuns and priests to stick the kids in mental institutions, usually in Quebec, which brought more government assistance dollars into the church. When some parents came back for their children, they were told the kids had died. In reality, they were rotting away in asylums where they were tortured, sexually abused, forced to perform menial labor, and denied any education.

     The Toronto Star reports that one girl “was beaten, bound for hours by her hands, feet and a neck collar to her mattress springs, kept in a straitjacket, immersed in a freezing bath, sedated, and kept on her knees in an isolation cell. One nun insisted on bathing her and fondling her breasts.” The girl was told her mother was a syphilitic psychotic who died of meningitis, all of which was untrue.

     In 1962 the provincial government ordered the children and teens released, though some had gone crazy from their treatment and had to remain in the institutions. To this day, the Prime Minister of Quebec refuses to give compensation to the now-adults, while the Quebec Assembly of Bishops will not apologize to the orphans. Their story will get an airing soon, though, since filmmaker William Gazecki -- the force behind the Oscar-nominated Waco: The Rules of Engagement -- is doing a documentary on the orphans betrayed by the church and state.²⁸

     It’s not just Catholics who are causing problems, of course. Abuse, pedophilia, and thievery are nonde-nominational. A Baptist minister in North Carolina pleaded guilty to molesting 23 children as young as five and videotaping some of the encounters. (Police found 26 tapes). He was sentenced to 60 years.²⁹ Two Brooklyn rabbis admitted to looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a government program that gives aid to elderly Holocaust survivors.³⁰ In Algeria, militant Muslims slit the throats of five children, apparently because they wandered too close to an Islamic hideout in the forest.³¹

     Former Nazis in Britain, Scotland, Australia, and the US are still being pursued through legal channels for their crimes, but Poland has added a unique twist. It’s a little-known fact that after WWII, the Communist government of Soviet-occupied Poland held at least 100,000 Germans, mostly civilians, in concentration camps, where they were often treated brutally. The head of one such camp is currently on trial in Warsaw for crimes against humanity. The incident is alleged to have occurred when he ordered guards to torch a barracks and shoot anyone who ran out. Authorities claim that at least 48 people died.

     The case is reminiscent of one in 1998 in which Poland asked Israel to hand over a Polish Jew accused of committing atrocities in the concentration camp he commanded. Israel refused.³²

     Are Boy Scout camps the target of an orchestrated arson campaign? Between early 1999 and early 2001, six fires caused $1.7 million in damage to three camps in the Midwest. One of the fires in Michigan has officially been ruled arson, while authorities consider all the others “suspicious.”³³

     Weather modification seems like the stuff of science fiction and outlandish conspiracy theories, but a scientist writing in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says that we’re currently at the primitive stages of such control, with complete control coming in 25 years. Citing a little-known, apparently unclassified report by the US military, Nico Stehr says “it is likely the air force will routinely use unmanned drones to manipulate the weather by 2025.” This would include creating or inhibiting storms, snow, fog, as well as using the ionosphere to disrupt communications. He also notes that the seven military officers who contributed to the report “stress that only those who are prepared to capitulate strategically could want to renounce the military use of weather modification.”³⁴

     Funny how those occasional studies that show something bad about marijuana get trumpeted in the press, but the numerous ones that show the relatively benign nature of pot are ignored. At a conference for internal physicians, a researcher at Johns Hopkins presented evidence that pot doesn’t cause head, neck, or lung cancer. Not exactly what the media wanted to hear, so, with the notable exception of WebMD Medical News, they ignored it.³⁵

     We all know that the drug warriors lie about the effects of pot, LSD, and other substances, but now they’re lying about their own unsuccessful efforts to fight a “war” they declared. In the fall of 2000, the Drug Enforcement Administration led 36 Caribbean and Latin American nations in “Operation Liberator” (“Operacion Libertodor,” in Spanish) -- supposedly a “major takedown” of drug traffickers. The DEA released some impressive numbers while claiming success, but a review of the operation by the Miami Herald revealed some very creative uses of numbers. Of the 2,876 arrests that the narcs claimed, 375 are unsupported by any documentation and almost 1,000 were misdemeanor busts for simple pot possession, which resulted only in fines.

     Libertador took credit for burning a lot of marijuana, but much of that had already been counted as part of the earlier Operation Buccaneer. The DEA boasted that during the operation it had seized $30.2 million in illegal assets, but $30 million of that came from a single kingpin who was arrested almost one month before Libertador began.³⁶

     Toward the end of his reign as Drug Czar, even General Barry McCaffrey gave lip service to the idea of preventing and treating drug addiction, rather than focusing all efforts on seizing drugs and busting heads. In an apparent effort to seem like they were part of this humanitarian shift, three federal agencies claimed that they spent $1 billion more than they really did on treatment. McCaffrey’s Office of National Drug Control Policy reported that all US agencies spent a combined total of $2.8 billion on helping addicts in 1998. The Rand Corporation -- an influential think tank not exactly known for leftist leanings -- found that the actual total was around $1.8 billion. One of the study’s authors revealed: “I tracked down one budget guy for the Border Patrol and asked how they figured out the drug budget and he told me, ‘We made it up.’”³⁷

     But drug hypocrisy works on a personal level, too. Who can forget the Pittsburgh judge who did cocaine and heroin in her chambers? Besides being an addict herself, she actively aided a drug ring and was recently arrested for driving drunk (with three times the legal limit of booze in her blood), hitting another car, and leaving the scene.³⁸

     Then there’s the Royal Canadian Mountie who was a leading anti-drug crusader, teaching children about the dangers of all illegal substances. He was found dead of a heroin overdose, and cocaine was also detected in his body.³⁹ Turns out he lifted the goods from a police evidence locker, a surprisingly easy feat, if an incident in Tennessee is any indication. That state’s Bureau of Investigation (TBI) recently built a $20.5 million-dollar facility, calling it “the flagship of the criminal justice system in Tennessee.” Mere months later a security guard -- using a coat hanger -- jimmied the door of the impenetrable, high-tech “evidence vault” and made off with 24 kilos of cocaine (estimated street value: over $2 million). The police managed to recover only four of the kilos, and the major narcotics case that depended on the missing evidence has collapsed.⁴⁰

     Based on the fact that most of the above stories came from the mainstream press, you can see that there is a glimmer of hope. As media-propaganda analyst Edward S. Herman reminds us, even though the media are money-making corporations dedicated to protecting the elite, “normal news-making processes do not screen out all inconvenient facts and stories. It is extremely rare, however, for such dissonant items to graduate to act as a framework that questions generally accepted principles, or to be part of ‘big news.’” In other words, if you keep your eyes open, you can find meaningful news stories that slip through the cracks of the Infotainment-Industrial Complex.

1. Patten-Hitt, Emma. “Report: West Nile Virus Will Spread Throughout U.S.” Reuters, November 24, 2000.

2. Coffman, Keith. “More Columbine Documents Released: Public Can View 11,000 Pages on Massacre Investigation,” APBnews.com, November 21, 2000. www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/11/21/columbine1121_01.html

3. Leppard, David. “Diana Paparazzo’s Burnt Body Found,” Sunday Times (London) June 4, 2000. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/06/04/stinwenws03006.html

4. Mokhiber, Russell and Robert Weissman. “Enemies of the Future: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2000,” Multinational Monitor, December 2000. www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00december/enemies.html

5. unsigned. “IBM Settles Birth Defects Action,” Ananova (UK news service), January 23, 2001. www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_183343.html?menu=

6. Harlow, John. “Accidents Blight Disney as New $1 Billion Park Opens,” Sunday Times (London), February 4, 2001. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/04/stifgnusa01002.html

7. unsigned, “Disney World Visitor Killed on Splash Mountain,” United Press International, November 5, 2000.

8. unsigned. “Ritalin May Not Be Only Option for ADD Sufferers,” KPRC at click2Houston.com, February 21, 2001. www.click2houston.com/hou/health/healthbeat/stories/healthbeat-48434220010221-150229.html

9. Breggin, Peter R., MD. “Confirming the Hazards of Stimulant Drug Treatment,” Ethical Human Sciences and Services, volume 2, #3. /www.breggin.com/ritalinconfirmingthehazards.html

10. Huget, Jennifer. “Scandal! They Haven’t Tested Ritalin on the Children It’s Prescribed For! Scandal! They’re Going to Test Ritalin on the Children,” Washington Post, January 2, 2001. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64888-2000Dec29.html

11. Saulny, Susan. “Workers Say Chemicals Used in Mosquito Spraying Made Them Ill,” New York Times, January 25, 2001. www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/nyregion/25SPRA.html

    Gonzalez, Juan. “Skeeter Spray Nightmare,” New York Daily News, January 24, 2001. www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-24/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-97152.asp?last6days=1

12. Gearan, Anne. “Marine Loses Challenge to Vaccine Prosecution,” Associated Press, March 19, 2001.

13. Eberhart, Dave. “Anthrax Vaccine Maker Didn’t Report Army Sergeant’s Death, According to FDA,” Stars and Stripes, March 6, 2001. www.stripes.com/servlet/News/ViewArticle?articleId=100036848&frontpageId=100036846

14. Weiser, Benjamin. “New York Will Pay $50 Million in 50,000 Illegal Strip-Searches,” New York Times, January 10, 2001. www.nytimes.com/2001/01/10/nyregion/10STRI.html

15. Rashbaum, William K. “Brooklyn Officers Accused as Brazen Robbers,” New York Times, January 24, 2001. www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/nyregion/24PLOT.html

16. Zorn, Eric. “Devine’s Deal Adds Insult to Injustice of Police Torture,” Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2001. chicagotribune.com/news/local/article/0,1051,SAV-0101250337,00.html

17. Rosenzweig, David. “Ex-INS Agent Sentenced in Ransom Scheme,” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2001.

18. unsigned. “Border Patrol Shot Immigrant in Mexico: Shooting Could Be Ruled Justified,” Associated Press, May 26, 2000.

19. unsigned. “Edgewater Officer Arrested,” WFTV 9 Eyewitness News (Florida), January 31, 2001; unsigned. “Steilacoom Officer Charged with Sex Crimes,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 25, 2001; unsigned. “CHP [California Highway Patrol] Officer Faces Molestation Charges,” KCRA (Sacramento), January 24, 2001.

20. unsigned. “County Police Officer Facing Child Molestation Charges in Indiana,” Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2001.

21. unsigned. “Former Healdsburg Cop to Be Sentenced on Molestation Charges,” KPIX (San Francisco), January 24, 2001.

22. Burnett, James A., III. “Officer Charged with Misconduct,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 29, 2001. www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan01/cop30012901.asp

23. Kelley, Tina. “Officer Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Woman While on Duty,” New York Times, January 27, 2001.

24. unsigned. “Vice Detective Charged with Robbing Prostitute,” New York Times, January 29, 2001.

25. Herszenhorn, David M. “A Sheepish Hunt for Missing Fuel Rods,” New York Times, January 8, 2001. www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/nyregion/08NUKE.html

26. Traynor, Ian. “Patten Urges Nuclear Cleanup,” The Guardian (London), January 19, 2001. www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,424608,00.html

27. Scott, Kirsty. “Brothers Accused of Torture of Children,” Irish Times, January 8, 2001. www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0108/wor10.htm Nichols, Michelle and Tim Bugler. “Abuse Claims Against Monks,” The Scotsman, undated. www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=37607&keyword=abuse

28. Tesher, Ellie. “Shameful Treatment of Duplessis Orphans Must Be Resolved Now,” Toronto Star, September 4, 2000.

29. Holland, Jennifer. “Minister Admits Molesting Nearly Two Dozen Children,” Associated Press, January 29, 2001.

30. LoBaido, Anthony C. “Rabbis Loot Holocaust Survivors’ Fund,” WorldNetDaily, February 13, 2001. www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21696

31. unsigned. “Algerian Militants ‘Slit Children’s’ Throats’,” BBC News Online, February 9, 2001. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1162000/1162557.stm
32. Pasek, Beata. “Former Prison Camp Head on Trial for Alleged Atrocities Against Germans,” Associated Press, January 26, 2001.

33. unsigned, “Arsonists Target Boy Scout Camps,” Fox News, January 26, 2001. www.foxnewschannel.com/national/012601/scout_fires.sml

34. Stehr, Nico. “Man-Made Weather: A Weapon of the Future?” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 8, 2000.

35. Pek, Peggy. “Cancer Prevention Efforts Should Focus on Tobacco and Alcohol, Says Researcher,” WebMD Medical News, May 8, 2000

36. Savino, Lenny. “DEA’s Latin ‘Takedown’ Boosted By Dubious Figures,” Miami Herald, February 1, 2001. www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n188/a08.html?55744

37. Donnelley, John. “US Is Said To Overstate Spending On Drug Care,” Boston Globe, January 24, 2001. www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n135/a09.html

38. Chipman, John. “US Judge Who Did Heroin In Chambers Ordered Into Rehab,” National Post (Canada), February 22, 2001. www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n321.a10.html

39. unsigned. “Drug Mountie’s Heroin Came From Police Drug Locker,” The Province (Canada), February 18, 2001. www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n295/a04.html?1835

40. Thompson, Charles and Tony Hays. “Top Police Agency Loses 24 Kilos of Cocaine,” WorldNetDaily, January 11, 2001. www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21292

     Russ Kick is the editor of You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths, as well as the author of Outposts and Psychotropedia. Stop by his Website, alterNewswire for a regular dose of important, underreported stories.