The CIA Drug Cult: Afghanistan and Heroin

The CIA Drug Cult: Afghanistan and Heroin

While increasingly well known, the Taliban had destroyed the Afghan poppy crop years ago. Their drug war was an immediate success because normally, in a war, enemy soldiers are not given lawyers and endless hearings to decide if they are, in fact, enemies. Taliban areas of Afghanistan before 9/11 had precisely zero poppy production. The…

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Narcotics East and West—In Colonial and Modern Asia

Narcotics East and West—In Colonial and Modern Asia

By George Fowler. Regarding Asia, the post-World War II West has endured decades of self-flagellation within its literature, theater, media and written history. This month Hong Kong reverts to the often untender mercies of Red China. With China’s communist government an increasingly cryptic relic of an expired era, that country’s future dealings with the West may be strongly influenced by what it claims happened in lands where incredible wealth was never far from dire poverty.

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