Opium
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Global War for Opium Poppy
A study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that the Opiates epidemic, alongside overdose deaths in the US, rose by 500% as a result of US intervention in Afghanistan between 2000 and 2016. Continue reading
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Afghanistan’s “Color Revolution”: Who Is Ali Ahmad Jalali?
What is abundantly clear is that the U.S. has not been thrown out of Afghanistan. Quite the opposite. A so-called interim Afghan government is to be headed by Prof. Ali Ahmad Jalali, who just so happens to be a US citizen. “Regime Change” in Afghanistan? Troop withdrawals coupled with a US sponsored color revolution? Continue reading
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U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Afghan Opium Production
It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations. (Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels…Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. And the U.S. drug money laundering is… Continue reading
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Coup in Kyrgyzstan, Drugs from Afghanistan, and the US By Anatoly ALIFEROV
While the Kyrgyz interim government was searching for the bank accounts of ousted President K. Bakiev, and Belorussian President A. Lukashenko invited him to settle down in Belarus, Moscow bloggers published a sensational finding: they unearthed evidence that the coup in Kyrgyzstan was backed by the US and that the whole intrigue revolves around the… Continue reading
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Illusions versus reality: NATO and Afghan opium – By Natalia Makarova
NATO and Russia have failed to reach a consensus in a tug of war over tackling the Afghan drug problem. The alliance has rejected Moscow’s appeal to eradicate opium poppy fields in the Islamic Republic. Continue reading
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Victor KORGUN: The Afghan dilemma
The development of the situation in Afghanistan over the last 12 months has been influenced by the new US strategy approved by President Barack Obama in April 2009. As opposed to the strategy of George Bush the strategy of Obama’s government implies not only strengthening US and NATO military presence in the country but also… Continue reading
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ICH 1 March, 2010: Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
Can Obama Assassinate Americans? By Nat Hentoff The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm The Picture By David Glenn Cox I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep Continue reading
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America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan By F. William Engdahl
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large. Continue reading
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Afghanistan and NATO: a war that never can be won By Rafe MAIR
When I suggested to my esteemed editor a column on Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan I was reminded of the axiom be careful what you ask for. I quickly learned that one could easily do a fair sized book on the subject! Continue reading
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Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the… Continue reading
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Remind me again, which century am I living in? By William Bowles
The mass media has divorced our populations almost entirely from the real world ‘out there’ including I’m sorry to say, many so-called leftists. For example, a recent interview conducted by Democracy Now [sic] with Chris Hedges and As’ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California State University reveals just how ‘embedded’ the Western left is,… Continue reading
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The war on everything By William Bowles
There is a direct correlation between imperialism’s increasingly desperate economic state and its urge to go to war, only now it’s declared war on the entire planet, a sure indication of capitalism’s inability to deal with its inbuilt and rapidly escalating contradictions. Consider the wars it has declared over the past 100 years: the ‘war… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 