#Afghanistan’s #Multibillion #Dollar #Heroin #Trade

Over Half of Military Families Do Not Want COVID Vaccines – Employers Cannot Legally Mandate Experimental Shots

By Brian Shilhavy, February 23 2021

The Vaccine Reaction is reporting that a recent survey found that 53 percent of U.S. military families do not want to take the experimental mRNA COVID injections.

Pressure Building to Keep US Troops in Afghanistan Indefinitely By Adam Weinstein, February 23 2021 The meeting of NATO defence ministers and Munich Security Conference has left unanswered the question over whether the Biden administration will bring remaining U.S. troops home from Afghanistan by May 1.

The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 23 2021

#Capitalism Is #Double-#billing #Us

Capitalism Is Double-billing Us: We Pay from Our Wallets Only for Our Future to be Stolen from Us

By Jonathan Cook, October 26 2020

As we shall see, externalities mean someone other than the company itself pays the true cost behind its profits, either because those others are too weak or ignorant to fight back or because the bill comes due further down the line.

Sesame Street Offers “New Normal” Brainwashing for the Very Young and Vulnerable By John C. A. Manley, October 26 2020 This clumsy puppet also makes a guest appearance on World Economic Forum’s The Great Reset Podcast where he offers more dehumanizing advice to lonely and depressed children.

The Global Takeover Is Underway

#Pentagon’s “#Ides of #March 2020”: Best Month to Go to #War?

Afghanistan: Imagine There’s No Future

By Daniel Lazare, March 06, 2020

Little, if anything, about the peace agreement signed last weekend in Qatar makes sense. It calls for a phased, fourteen-month withdrawal of 12,000 US troops in exchange for what the New York Times called “vague” commitments on the Taliban’s part to protect the civil liberties, the very idea of which is ludicrous. It requires the Taliban to combat Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups operations even though Taliban military commander Sirajuddin Haqqani heads a subgroup known as the Haqqani Network that is itself on the State Department’s list of officially proscribed terrorist organizations.

 

Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?

By Larry Romanoff, March 06, 2020

The CDC produced a series of test kits that produced wildly random results, positive or

How Far Can #Imperialism Go?

A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen.

By Rep. Ron Paul, January 28, 2020
You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported the number of protesters as far less than actually turned out. The Beltway elites are determined that Americans not know or understand just how much our presence in Iraq is not wanted.

The US Dropped More Munitions on Afghanistan Last Year Than Any Other Time in the Last Decade
By Jared Keller, January 28, 2020
The U.S. military dropped more munitions on targets across Afghanistan in 2019 than during any other year stretching back to at least 2009, according to Air Force data. According to Air Forces Central Command’s airpower statistics, U.S. aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions across 2,434 sorties as part of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO’s Resolute Support mission, and increase over the 7,362 weapons released across 966 sorties in 2018.

Iraq to Neocons: Get the Hell Out of Our Country
By Kurt Nimmo, January 28, 2020
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) units in Iraq are integrated into the Iraqi government by a

#President #NicolasMaduro: #OpenLetter to the #People of the #UnitedStates

An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas Maduro
By Nicolas Maduro
I address these words to the people of the United States of America to warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country and for the entire American region. Read more...

Venezuela: From Oil Proxy to the Bolivarian Movement and Sabotage. Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998)
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner
We discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d’etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky’s personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning. Read more...

US Influence in Venezuela Is Part of a Two Centuries-old Imperial Plan
By Shane Quinn

#DonaldTrump’s #Twenty #Biggest #Follies

Donald Trump’s Twenty Biggest FolliesBy Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
The list of Trump’s ineptitudes is very long, and we tend to forget previous ones as the next one hits the headlines. Many suspect that the rise of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has been tainted by fraud. The biggest folly of all is to enter politics when one is inexperienced and incompetent. Read more...

Afghanistan: From “Soviet” Occupation to American “Liberation”By Nauman Sadiq
During the election campaign of 2008 before he was elected president, Barack Obama made an artificial distinction between the supposedly “just war” in Afghanistan and the unjust war in Iraq. Read more...

The Venezuelan Coup and Gilets Jaunes: Great-Power Politics in a Multipolar World Order

#RegimeChange, #Sanctions, #Refugee #Crisis, No-Deal #Brexit, #ChinaGate

86% of Venezuelans Oppose Military Intervention, 81% Against US Sanctions, Local Polling Shows
By Ben Norton
More than eight out of ten Venezuelans oppose international intervention, both military and non-military, in their country, as well as the crippling sanctions imposed by the United States to force leftist President Nicolás Maduro out of power. Read more...

Afghanistan Pullout? Culmination of America’s Longest War. Draft US-Taliban Peace Pact?
By Nauman Sadiq
The news of drawdown of American forces is expected after the next round of peace talks is held in late February in the capital of Qatar, Doha, in which Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a close aide to the Taliban’s deceased leader Mullah Omar, will lead the Taliban delegation. Read more...

Regime Change in Africa. Rival Rumblings In West and Central Africa
By Andrew Korybko

#US #Aggression, #Ukraine #Crisis

Trump Escalates Confrontation over Federal Shutdown
By Patrick Martin
With the partial shutdown of the federal government in its third week, and 800,000 workers facing the prospect of a payless payday Friday, President Trump has stepped up his campaign to spread fear and whip up bigotry against immigrants and refugees. Read more...

Crisis in Ukraine: Religious Schism and War
By Christopher Black
The signing of the Tomos or note of Autocephaly for the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine is not a church but a political act which may have catastrophic consequences for Ukraine. Read more...

As Trump Orders US Out of Afghanistan, Notorious CIA-Backed Units Will Remain

#US - #NATO #Megalomania

America’s Permanent-War Complex
By Gareth Porter
What President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed the “military-industrial complex” has been constantly evolving over the decades, adjusting to shifts in the economic and political system as well as international events. Read more...

More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Unknown to the broader public, Afghanistan has significant oil, natural gas and strategic raw material resources, not to mention opium, a multibillion dollar industry which feeds America’s illegal heroin market. Read more...

Video: Italy: A Whole US/NATO Strategic Military Base, “Global NATO”

#America’s #National “#Defense” Is #Really “#Offense”

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Shifting Geopolitical Realities in Afghanistan. Threat to US Hegemony?
By Fraidoon Amel, January 28, 2018
Violent geopolitical rivalries between imperialist and hegemonist powers over Afghanistan’s natural resources, trade and transit routes, and geostrategic location have dramatically intensified. Despite sixteen years of heavy-handed US presence to establish its hegemony in Afghanistan and beyond, influence of regional powers like Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and India is growing.

UK Defence Secretary Accuses Russia of Planning to Kill “Thousands and Thousands and Thousands” of Britons

#US Led #Wars in The #MiddleEast and #Africa

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US Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan, Along with Civilian Deaths
By Jason Ditz, November 09, 2017
With the US once again escalating the war in Afghanistan, the number of US warplanes dropping munitions on the central Asian country are on the rise, and with it, the number of civilians being killed in those strikes.

Video: The Saudi Purge: The Middle East Is on the Verge of A New War
By South Front, November 09, 2017
A missile gets fired on the Saudi capital. A missile, which was allegedly built in Iran and smuggled to Yemen, just to be fired at Saudi Arabia.

Mission Creep in Darkest Africa. US Military Expands its Operations Throughout the Continent

#Afghanistan: A Morally #Corrupting #War

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Geopolitical Turbulence in the Caucasus

By Stephen Karganovic, July 21, 2017

The occasion for the flag display was the visit of US lieutenant-general Frederick Hodges, commander of US forces in Europe, who arrived on a special mission, ostensibly to commend the performance of Georgian troops who were undergoing combat training at the US military base in Oberpfalz, in Germany.

Demands of Colonialism Reparations to the Caribbean

By Colonialism Reparation, July 21, 2017

On June 23, 2017 dozens of organizations and five Nobel Peace Laureates supported the demand for justice of the Haitian people by calling on the United Nations Security Council delegation visiting Haiti for the complete withdrawal of MINUSTAH and the compensation of victims of the cholera epidemic.

United States Drowning in an Ocean of Subjectivism. Make America What?

#US #InternationalRelations. #Washington Is in #HighGear

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Do not underestimate the capacity of the US to maintain its “superpower” status. It is committed to exhaust whatever means to achieve its ends. From its unsolicited military intervention in Syria to economic sanctions imposed in Russia and Cuba, Global Research brings to your attention the following articles on US international relations. 

The global media — to their credit – are focusing on the brutality of the US-backed Raqqa campaign, though they’re avoiding any serious reporting about how and why the Kurds are ethnically cleansing Arabs from Raqqa. (Andrew Korybko) 

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US Backed YPG Kurds Are Ethnically Cleansing Arabs From Raqqa, and the World Is Silent

By Andrew Korybko, June 19, 2017

Combined with the heavy and indiscriminate airstrikes being carried out against the city, 160,000 civilians have been forced to become refugees and flee their homes as internally displaced people. This works out to more than half of the city’s pre-war population of 220,000, and it confirms what independent journalist and associate editor at 21stcenturywire.com Vanessa Beeley told RT just recently about how the US is making no attempt whatsoever to protect civilians. 

 

Trump Reaffirms the Blockade, Takes US Policy Towards Cuba One Step Back

By ACN, June 19, 2017

Although diplomatic relations – re-established on July 20, 2015 – will continue, the new actions of the Trump administration are a step backwards towards the normalization of bilateral ties, and come loaded with old anti-Cuban rhetoric. 

 

Trump to Reverse Cuba Policy, Reinstate ‘Regime Change’ Goals

The #Collapse of #Western #Democracy

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The Collapse of Western Democracy

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 01 2016

Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US powerful private interest groups, such as the military-security complex, Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness and the extractive industries of energy, timber and mining, have long exercised more control over government than the people. But now even the semblance of democracy has been abandoned. 

 

Pro-GMO Spin Masquerading as Science Courtesy of “Shameful White Men of Privilege”

By Colin Todhunter, July 01 2016

Unlike their predecessors, early 21st century missionaries do not come armed with bibles. They come as members of a scientific priesthood, spouting slick PR and are supported by the likes of Bill Gates, taxpayer ‘aid’ and the global agritech cartel and rely on the leverage of international institutions like the World Bank, IMF and WTO. 

 

Mass Shootings and Massacres in America: The Political, Cultural and Socio-psychological Features of US Society

By Prof. James Petras, July 01 2016

Over the past fifty plus years, over 125 mass shootings/massacres have occurred within the United States but not one perpetrator has been identified as a trained member of an international Islamist terrorist organization.  

Why There Will Probably Be a Second Referendum on Brexit

#ModerateRebels and #ChildRefugees. Dire Situation in the #MiddleEast.

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Countdown to the Destruction in Syria? Timeline of US and Allied Interventions in Syria (1916-2016)

By Dana Visalli, February 22 2016

“I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could get itself involved in, and that we’ve started a series of these things that will never end.” Dean Hinton, US State Department official pertaining to planned CIA coup against Syria in 1949. 

“Al Qaeda R Us”: John McCain’s “Moderate Rebels” in Syria are ISIS

#War, #Conflict and #Economic Development in the #ArabWorld

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Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Hit Record in 2015

By Thomas Gaist, February 16 2016

The US war in Afghanistan produced at least 11,000 civilian casualties last year, setting a new official record, according to a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. 

Collapse of Iraqi Kurdistan

#Heroin #Production and #Tripled #Opium #Cultivation Since #US #Military Arrived in #Afghanistan

The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Heroin Production and Tripled Opium Cultivation 

since the US military arrived/ UN and US Government documents

by WashingtonsBlog

By Meryl Nass, M.D.  Dr. Nass is  a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and expert in anthrax. Nass publishes Anthrax Vaccine.

Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin.  I had never seen anything like it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents.  Nationwide, CDC noted, “Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013.”  Massachusetts (population under 7 million) had 1,000 deaths related to (all) opioids in 2014, “the highest ever recorded.“

I’ve heard stories on NPR about insufficient state funding of heroin treatment facilities. I’ve heard about plans to make Narcan injections available to iv drug users, for overdoses. Another popular angle I’ve seen repeated multiple times (and one currently pushed by the US Drug Enforcement Agency) claims prescription narcotics became harder to get, so users switched to heroin, instead.

However, the DOJ-DEA 2014 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary notes that cocaine

#ISIS Burns #CIA #Opium Fields in #Afghanistan

Illicit drug trade has floated Wall Street for years

Image Credits: merula, Flickr.

Kurt Nimmo

The Islamic State is destroying opium fields in Afghanistan as it routs the Taliban, according to witnesses.

The reports may ultimately result in the US sending troops back into the country to protect these valuable and highly lucrative assets.

CIA and Afghan Opium

In 2009 it was reported that the CIA controlled the opium trade in Afghanistan through Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the former president, Hamid Karzai, who began his career as a fundraiser for the CIA’s mujahideen during the 1980s.

“CIA-supported Mujahideen rebels engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society,” William Blum writes in The Real Drug Lords.

“The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US

USA Sponsored Terrorism

How and Why the USA Has Sponsored Terrorism 

in the Mid East Since at Least 1948

by Robert Barsocchini

Syria

• The USA started carrying out coups, assassinating leaders, and sponsoring terrorism and extremists in Syria in 1948, continuing to the present moment, as everyone knows, under Obama.  Examples, provided by David North:

• “The Eisenhower administration was troubled by the popularity of the “progressive front,” which was backed by elements in the Syrian army led by Colonel Adnan Malki. The United States was particularly angry that Malki’s faction opposed Syrian membership in the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact, modeled on NATO, which the Eisenhower administration set up in January 1955. On April 22, 1955, Malki was assassinated while attending a soccer match by a member of the pro-US and right-wing Syrian Social National Party. An official investigation into the assassination found that the US was a major supporter and financier of the SSNP. It was well known that the SSNP had close ties with the CIA.”

• “Working closely with its counterparts in British intelligence, the CIA and the British SIS developed Operation Straggle. In what appears today to be an early model of the present US-orchestrated “rebel” insurgency [in Syria]:”

• “The original CIA-SIS plan appears to have called for Turkey to stage border incidents, British operatives to stir up the desert tribes, and American agents to mobilize SSNP guerillas, all of which would trigger a pro-Western coup by “indigenous anticommunist elements within Syria” supported, if necessary, by Iraqi troops. What Washington perceived as a deteriorating situation in Damascus made Straggle more and more attractive. [Little, p. 66]“

• “The coup planned by the CIA was scheduled to take place on October 25, 1956. The CIA had provided $150,000 to the conspirators.”

• Dr. Noam Chomsky notes (and here): “The US at that time had three major crisis areas, according to the internal discussions, all in Islamic countries, all in oil-producers. One was Indonesia, one was Algeria, one was basically Iraq — the Iraqi region. Those were the three crises. It was made explicit in the internal meetings. In fact, Eisenhower, vociferously, according to the minutes, insisted on this: there was no Russian involvement. The enemy is indigenous nationalism. In fact, that’s true throughout the Cold War, but very explicit then, and Eisenhower did discuss it with his staff…”

• The USA’s sponsorship of terrorism in Syria and everywhere in the Mid East and globally was maintained with complete continuity after the fall of the Soviet Union, exhibiting how much that empty pretext was worth.  Pretexts will always be updated to pacify an uninformed public into accepting elite marauding and plunder, and even get them to naively cheer it on.

Afghanistan

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Real Killers of / Los Verdaderos Asesinos de Philip Seymour Hoffman Discovered / Descubiertos

infowars.com

The tragic death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman reveals the complete and total fraud of the War of Drugs which is now in its fourth decade.

La trágica muerte del actor ganador del Oscar Philip Seymour Hoffman revela el fraude completo y total de la guerra contra las drogas que está ahora en su cuarta década. 

News outlets report that Hoffman died from an extremely strong type of heroin which is processed from opium out of Afghanistan. 

Medios de prensa informan que Hoffman murió de una muy fuerte tipo de heroína que se procesa a partir del opio de Afganistán. 

Before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO forces, the landlocked country in Central Asia accounted for less than 7% of the world’s total supply of opium. 

Antes de la invasión de Afganistán en 2001 por las parte de las fuerzas estadounidenses y de la OTAN, el país sin mar en Asia Central representaba menos del 7% de la oferta total mundial de opio. 

Today that amount is approaching 97%.

Hoy esa cantidad se aproxima al 97%. 

Holding Osiris / Sosteniendo a Osiris