The Big Squeeze

The Big Squeeze 2021

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The computer game chain GameStop created so much chaos in the stock market that it forced large hedge funds to their knees. How could it happen? Here we follow different people who were brought together during 2020 because of their interest in GameStop's future. Some had invested in the chain's stock, others wondered about it. While the chain's employees trusted that the company would pay their salaries at a time when millions of people went bankrupt and became unemployed.

2021

Did the CIA Actually Sell Crack in the 1980s?

Did the CIA Actually Sell Crack in the 1980s? 2021

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"The rumours have circulated for decades. Did the CIA flood the inner cities of the US with crack cocaine in the 1980s? Was the American government actually responsible for the crack epidemic? "Often dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but passionately believed by huge sections of the population – the idea that US intelligence agencies knowingly protected drug traffickers and played a role in bringing cocaine into the US is one of the most often repeated stories of the War on Drugs. "But what is the truth to these allegations? It turns out the real story is perhaps even stranger than the street-level gossip. "This is how one reporter exposed a web of CIA cover-ups, and how the rest of the media destroyed him for doing so."

2021