https://off-guardian.org because facts really should be sacred Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/cropped-LogoOffGraun3-32x32.jpg https://off-guardian.org 32 32 161910464 https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/08/cia-hits-of-yesterday-and-today-nicaragua-collection/ https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/08/cia-hits-of-yesterday-and-today-nicaragua-collection/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:00:21 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=49528 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) by the Eurythmics on my jambox, CIA agents were dropping tons of drugs on my state and training death squads in our forests. I had heard of Contras and Daniel Ortega, but I had no idea they had any impact on my life at all. However, a couple of years later at one of my first babysitting gigs, I was getting a little girl ready for bed when I found a big plastic zipper bag full of white powder in her underwear drawer. “You’re not supposed to touch that,” she told me. I guess her parents thought that was a safe place to hide it. It had probably come from an airport in small town called Mena, but we’ll get to that later.]]> https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/08/cia-hits-of-yesterday-and-today-nicaragua-collection/feed/ 22 49528