Updated: 10:27 AM CDT April 22, 2021
MESQUITE, Texas Authorities are asking for the public s help in finding multiple suspects who police said shot and killed a Lyft driver Tuesday in Mesquite.
The ride-share driver crashed after a vehicle drove by and shot at the car, according to a passenger. The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. on the ramp from northbound Interstate 635 to westbound Interstate 30.
The Lyft driver, who has been identified as 58-year-old Robert Barry, was found unconscious. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries, officials said.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest and indictment. They can be reached anytime at
Conductor de Lyft fallece tras ser baleado en Mesquite
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Asesinan a chofer de Lyft mientras conducía por Mesquite; su pasajero llama al 911
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by Media Lens / April 19th, 2021
Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into
Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity:
One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the service of mankind; a fourth, because he does not wish to destroy old sacred traditions; a fifth, because he has no desire to offend people; a sixth, because the expression of the truth would arouse persecution, and disturb the excellent social activity to which he has devoted himself.’
The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen
“When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
A Soviet “Vietnam”
By far the most influential voice in the US Administration of President Jimmy Carter was his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski’s influence drew largely from the fact that he had one of the most influential patrons in the United States at the time. David Rockefeller, then chairman of the family’s Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the most influential banks internationally, had taken Brzezins