“2014
was a banner year for Afghanistan’s booming opium industry.
According to a United Nations annual survey released on Wednesday,
opium cultivation set a record in 2014, increasing by an impressive 7
percent year-over-year and up nearly 50 percent from 2012.
Afghanistan presently produces 80 percent of the world’s heroin
which provides billions of dollars in illicit profits for the
powerful drug Mafia.”
“Heroin
trafficking and production have flourished under US military
occupation and transformed Afghanistan into a dysfunctional
narco-colony.”
“...
the Taliban had virtually eradicated poppy production before Bush and
Cheney launched their war in 2001. The Pentagon reversed that
achievement by installing the same bloodthirsty warlords who had been
in power before the Taliban. Naturally, this collection of
psychopaths–who the western media lauded as the 'Northern
Alliance'–picked up where they left off and resumed their drug
operations boosting their own wealth and power by many orders of
magnitude while meeting the near-insatiable demand for heroin in
capitals across Europe and America.”
“It’s
worth noting that Washington’s new man in Kabul, President Ashraf
Ghani Ahmadzai, received a Master’s degree from Columbia
University, taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1983 to 1991, and
joined the World Bank in 1991. In other words, he has the perfect
pedigree for an aspiring sock puppet who will do whatever Washington
tells him to do.”
“...
Ghani signed a controversial security deal to allow US combat troops
to stay in Afghanistan after the occupation formally ends. (US troops
will also enjoy total immunity from prosecution.) Karzai refused to
cave in on the issue, which made him persona non grata at the White
House, but eager-to-please Ashraf signed the document the day after
he was sworn into office.”
“There’s
no reason to think that Ghani is going to be any tougher on poppy
growers or drug traffickers than Karzai. The whole thing is a joke.
Besides, Ghani doesn’t have the resources to wage that kind of war.
He can’t deploy combat units to burn the fields, or hunt down and
bust the kingpins, or freeze the assets in suspect bank accounts.
Only the US has that kind of power, and they’re not interested.”
“Is the
US is really allowing an illicit multi-billion dollar industry to
flourish right under its nose (without involvement of any kind) or is
there a part of this story that’s missing from the headlines? Of
course, that leads us to an area of speculation that the media
considers taboo, the prospect that US intel agencies are somehow
implicated.”
“In the
1980s the CIA formed an alliance with the Colombian drugs lords to
support the Contras, the right-wing insurgency the CIA supported to
overthrow the left wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua. With CIA
encouragement, the Contras themselves became heavily involved in the
cocaine trade, as did the various right-wing paramilitary groups the
CIA was simultaneously supporting in El Salvador during the civil war
there. The key transit corridor of these Colombian drugs was Mexico,
where the individual who controlled the cocaine trade was Miguel
Gallardo, a gangster who is now acknowledged to have been a CIA
asset. Gallardo is the acknowledged godfather of all the various
vicious Mexican drug cartels that have proliferated in Mexico ever
since, which have reduced parts of the country to a state of virtual
war…”
“This
isn’t about profits. It’s about crushing workers movements,
leftist organizations, and any emerging grassroots group that
threatens the plutocratic system of wealth distribution. To achieve
that end, Washington would just as soon climb into bed with jihadis
and Neo Nazis as they would with druglords and narco kingpins. In
fact, they have!”*
“The
point is, Afghanistan’s bumper crop is not an accident. It’s a
form of social control that fits with Washington’s broader
strategic objectives of maintaining a permanent military presence in
Central Asia and of opening up the country to resource extraction.
The proliferation of drugs helps to keep the “little people” in
line so the adults can get on with the business of looting.”
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What we see in Ukraine is probably another failure of
various think tanks, mostly from Washington, which they are
funded, of course, by the international capital. It seems that,
apart from the fact that they have underestimated Putin's
abilities, they have also wrongly estimated that Russia had passed
permanently in the neoliberal phase and would be ready to become
an easy victim to promote their plans. According to these plans,
the ultimate goal would be probably to dissolve the vast Russian
territory in future and bring in power Western-friendly puppet
regimes, in order not only to conquer the valuable resources, but
also to impose permanently the neoliberal doctrine on "unexplored"
regions and populations.
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/05/the-big-barrier-called-putin.html)
*
It's not the first time that the "brilliant minds" of
various think tanks miss the target so profoundly. Their
"brilliant idea" to support the neo-nazis in Ukraine to
put Russia in the corner, is turning now against them.
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/08/a-perfect-timing-for-argentina-to.html)
*
Neocons have ridiculously failed one more time.
After the mess they brought in Iraq, they had this "brilliant
idea" to support these militant groups so that to bring down
Assad regime, which is attached to Russia, and probably
destabilize Iran too. Now they are closing fronts and call
everyone to destroy ISIS.
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/09/closing-fronts-to-deal-with-isis.html)
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