Any one mentioning, posting about, or criticizing Paramilitary forces and their allies throughout Colombian government should be dismissed from the profession until they learn the rule, which is mention FARC ATROCITIES ONLY.

Repeat, mention FARC ATROCITIES ONLY!

This is how U.S. journalists have been instructed, trained and required to cover the conflict for the last forty-five years, and violations of this policy will not be tolerated! That is all. Dismissd.

They certainly aren't covering any real news, we know that much.

My view is that CIA operations, and the maintenance of social control (WOD) policies, requie that the media look no further than the All Transistor days of Cold War national policy. As one commentator said (paraphrase): The heart of America may be in Washington, but the soul is in the basement of the Miami Herald (one of very few papers which went beyond the standard Top 40 of American journalism). That paper knew why the second busiest airport in the U.S. in 1965 was Opalocka (private, N. Miami).

Have seen, researching, Miami was home to the world's largest CIA base (outside Langley), quartered at the U. of Miami, also in the 1960's.

Now that both China and Russia are making bonds with the Americas, it's probably likely Washington will be rebuilding its former concentration there.

Never saw the expression "social control policies" but it's very pointed, and clearly the direction all efforts have taken. So wrong, so desperately WRONG. Nothing decent about what has happened.

In my opinion, in my adult lifetime the greatest of these (in terms of thwarting aspirations, breaking up communities and directly suppressing peoples) is the War on Drugs. For years, I have suffered the stale economic determinism that "sophisticates" have proffered as explanations for the WOD. Finally, this year, it took the likes of John Erlichmann (Nixon's numero uno) to provide the real dope: the WOD was designed to suppress and control blacks and "hippy activists." The latter group escaped the brunt of jail time, exercising whatever "privilege" they could still muster, but YBMs soon literally changed the color of prison populations, and crushed not only the small militant groups, but the remaining core of African-American business/entrepreneurial class in (still) segregated metro areas. The saddest sub-text is the Democratic Party went right along with the WOD (Clinton's terms saw record jailings), lest it be accused of being soft on drugs or soft on anything the FR chooses on a given day; worse, most AA leaders supported the WOD as well. Did I use a past-tense? That support still goes on. Nothing like overseeing the demolition of communities, some of them your own. And nothing like seeing how the FR can pull this off again and again.

And what of the WOD? Isn't it a "HotButton©" issue? Or a "RedMeat®" concern for somebody's "base?" All codes of diminution for Move along, now, nothing to see Here. And that Back 40 ranking is courtesy of the media as well. It knows full well that the WOD has been enshrined as part of the national security state, and will be treated accordingly.

I hope I never hear again some worldly, would-be counter-culture type utter the expression "follow the money trail." They may as well be quoting the Bible to end an argument.