Though Oliver North, a Texan and member of Reagan’s National Security Council, took the fall for the administration, over the years the tangle of corruption has been revealed to have included Bush family oil interests, cocaine trafficking between Colombia and Nicaragua that was aided by the CIA, and the funneling of crack into Black neighborhoods in the United States. We’ve never stopped living the complications caused by oil dependence. We are embroiled, seemingly forever, in political choices motivated by the control of oil, a word that we laypeople say with little thought to the
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