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2021-06-28 Afghanistan

Politics, Profit, & Poppies: How The CIA Turned Afghanistan Into A Failed Narco-State

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-28 00:20|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 An interesting site that certainly digs deeper than most. Odd that this comes from a site that describes itself as follows

We focus our coverage on issues relating to the effects of special interest groups, big business and lobbying efforts and how they shape policies at home and abroad, including American foreign policy. Through the lens of social justice and human rights, we report on how these dynamics drive our foreign affairs and impact the world, and examine the effects they have on our democracy and freedoms as defined by the constitution.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-28 01:16|| 2021-06-28 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Simplistic. Afghanistan and Pakistan were THE major suppliers of opiates to Western Europe and North America in the mid-1970s. They took over from Burma/Laos because political and military instability and a long drought reduced movement of opium from the Golden Triangle. Myriad news reports in the nineteen seventies tied Pakistan military to the poppy trade in Afghanistan. There was Pak military operations all along the Northwest Frontier. They have not ceased to this day.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-28 09:08|| 2021-06-28 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The opioid epidemic that's destroying Americans has to come from somewhere. That's the real goal here.

US Army could have put a stop to poppy production long ago. Trump tried and was overruled, as he was in so many other decisions.

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-28 16:26|| 2021-06-28 16:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The campaign against Paraquat goes back at least to New York Times, "POISONOUS FALLOUT FROM THE WAR ON MARIJUANA", By Jesse Kornbluth, Nov. 19, 1978.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-28 17:20|| 2021-06-28 17:20|| Front Page Top

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