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OpEdNews - Article: The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing; Obama's plan for Afghanistan
Here is the apparent Pentagon conquest strategy for Afghanistan according to Mike Whitney, as cynical as anything any Fascist/Imperialist power has ever come up with, and Obama is the souless cog in the wheel doing the slick sales pitches for it. ...

our Afghanistan now growing opium AND processing it into heroin on industrial scale - Democratic Underground
Most of us have a vague memory that the Taliban actually suppressed the opium crop in 2001 and that under the occupation it has grown exponentially, but you might not have heard that Afghanistan has evolved from merely growing the crops to processing it...

OpEdNews - Article: United States of America, Chief Kingpin in the Afghanistan Heroin Trade?
the war in Afghanistan is largely, if not entirely, between armies run by heroin merchants, some aligned with the Americans, others aligned with the Taliban. Even worse, the Taliban appear to be gaining the upper hand in this Mafiosa-style gang war, the...

Against All Enemies: Who is protecting Afghanistan's Heroin production?
now that these drug labs are located within Afghanistan, a country occupied by the US/NATO, these labs need so-called 'precursor chemicals' to produce heroin - and lots of them, tanker loads.A July 2008 AP report, carried by Boston Globe, and...

Lost in Juarez, part 4
Lost in Juarez, part 4052009-12-03 00:00:00Darrin BellRating: 0.0/10 ( votes cast)Rating: 0.0/10 ( votes cast)

First U.S. Marijuana Cafe Opens in Portland
From Reuters:The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical...