Source – strategic-culture.org ‘…In this series we have seen a picture that has painted NATO, the CIA, and fascists including outright Nazis all working for the same apparatus and essentially the same goal: to overthrow democratically elected leaders and replace them with dictators and fascist right-wing governments….profits of the narcotics trade are used in turn…
Source – scheerpost.com “…Trump is too unfocused and mercurial to offer serious policy solutions. He did set a timetable to withdraw from Afghanistan, but he also ratcheted up the economic war against Venezuela and reinstituted crushing sanctions against Cuba and Iran, which the Obama administration had ended. He increased the military budget. He apparently flirted with carrying…
Source – youtube.com “…Awkwardly for the US, Noriega had been a major CIA asset for decades – even as they knew he was becoming massively embedded with the cartels flooding the streets of the US with coke. This is how US intelligence shielded Noriega, even as he trafficked cocaine and laundered cartel millions – and…
Source – lewrockwell.com “…The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin, includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe,…
Source – libertarianinstitute.org “…This war in Ukraine will last “months and years.” At least, that is what the leaders of the D.C. foreign policy blob, the media, President Joe Biden’s men, Pentagon and NATO leadership have decided. Their plan is to pour oil on the flames and keep the fire raging. Also, Americans are going to have to cough up the dough for another massive…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…The end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in December 1991 left a political vacuum in Central Asia. When Moscow imploded, Central Asia fragmented and in the confusion the United States sneaked in. By doing so Washington was following in the footsteps of Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, and Adolf Hitler” SM:…‘The…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…According to Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman and State Department envoy to the Taliban, by the end of 1999, in the face of crippling U.S. sanctions, the Taliban had come to see bin Laden and his training camps as “just a damn liability.”…The fact that the Taliban then were hostile to bin…
Source – ellenbrown.com “…Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty…In other words: It’s the banksters, stupid!” SM:… Needless to say, Gaddafi was the “Gold Standard”…
Source – voltairenet.org “…In the days following the 9/11 attacks, the US Army published an article by Colonel Ralph Peters stating that the US no longer needed to win wars, but to organise instability in certain regions of the world, particularly in the ’broader Middle East’. He went on to say that states would have…
Source – aanirfan.blogspot.com -“..A so-called interim Afghan government is to be headed by Prof. Ali Ahmad Jalali, who just so happens to be a US citizen….’Born in Afghanistan, Ali Ahmad Jalali is currently a distinguished professor at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). Based at Fort Lesley J. McNair,…
Source – mintpressnews.com “…With the start of the CIA secret war, opium production along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border surged and refineries soon dotted the landscape. Trucks loaded with U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons would travel from Pakistan into its neighbor to the west, returning filled to the brim with opium for the new refineries, their deadly product ending…
Source – asiatimes.com “…City after city have fallen from government to Taliban control but Afghanistan’s end-game is still unclear…The Taliban are meticulously implementing a strategic master plan…First, they conquer the countryside – a virtually done deal in at least 85% of the territory. Then they control the key border checkpoints, as with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Iran…
Source – unz.com “…Al-Qaida was based in Pakistan. 9/11 was planned in Pakistan. Osama bin Laden, the man held most responsible, lived in Pakistan. Much of the money came from Saudi Arabia, by far the largest international funding source of radical Islamic fundamentalism. The hijackers were Saudi and Egyptian. Not a single hijacker was Afghan.…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com “…While under the control of the US (which was in many cases more notional than real) Afghanistan became responsible for 90% of the world’s opium supply, valued at around $58.5 billion a year. Even as a corrupt scheme to use government funds to get at some dirty drug money, the Afghanistan venture…
Source – ericmargolis.com “…Officially, the US lost 31,376 dead and seriously wounded in Afghanistan; Canada lost 158 dead; Britain 456 dead; the Afghans god knows how many. Estimates range from, 100,000 to one million. Two million Afghans reportedly died during the decade-long Soviet occupation. Almost anything that moved was bombed. The known cost for this…
By Thierry Meyssan Source – voltairenet.org “…By a geographical coincidence, Burma allows the passage across its territory of the pipe-line linking Chinese Yunnan to the Bay of Bengal, and houses the Chinese electronic surveillance posts for the naval routes which near its coasts. Making war in Burma is therefore more important for the Pentagon than…
Source – voltairenet.org “…What he was teaching was quite simple. The world economy was becoming globalized. To remain the world’s leading power, the United States had to adapt to financial capitalism. The best way to do this was to ensure that developed countries could exploit the natural resources of poor countries without political obstacles….To achieve…
Source – williamengdahl.com “…Against this background of global instability, Brzezinski initiated a far-reaching policy decision. He authorized and organized the recruitment of Islamic Jihadists from all over the world and smuggled them into Soviet-controlled Afghanistan through US-friendly Pakistan. The aim of his little Jihad, as Brzezinski wrote in a classified internal memo to President Carter,…
Source – journal-neo.org “…The Russian Foreign Ministry is tracking how tons of chemicals are being illegally imported into Afghanistan from, among others, ‘Italy, France and the Netherlands’, and how the US and NATO are doing absolutely nothing to contain the heroin ratline.”The US operations in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, is far from ending.…
Source – craigmurray.org.uk “…As a historian myself, I find the disconnect between the facts that really happened and what becomes the established narrative – and will be history – alarming. The extent to which we live in a propaganda construct in which received truth cannot always be trusted, is crystal clear to me now“ Yet…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…ISIS was going to be a magic bullet to end Iranian influence in Iraq. What they did not know is that it was part of a long-planned destabilization that was engineered to end all Islamic power bases in the region, not just Iraq…Behind this, there were secret protocols and assurances from Washington…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…When the US entered Afghanistan in 2001, that nation no longer produced any opium at all. There were no addicts, no poppy growers, no heroin processing plants and no narcotics infrastructure. Nearly two decades later, a two horned dilemma exists, weaning Afghanistan of its 5 million heroin addicts and the massive narcotics…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – ‘…By 1984 Pakistan was exporting 70% of the world’s heroin. [6] During that time the CIA Station in Islamabad – Pakistan’s capital – became the largest spook den in the world. Golden Crescent heroin output surpassed that of the Golden Triangle just as the CIA began its biggest operation since Vietnam…Gulbuddin…
Source – voltairenet.org “…The world was used to oil wars since the end of the 19th century. Now the wars over lithium, a mineral that is essential for mobile phones, but above all for electric cars, are beginning. Foreign Office documents obtained by a British historian and journalist show that the UK engineered the overthrow…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…The 2011 US-NATO led war on Libya was a multi-trillion dollar trophy for the United States…The US-NATO intervention was also intent upon excluding China from the region and edging out China’s National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), which was a major player in Libya. Libya is the gateway to the Sahel and Central Africa. More…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Dick Cheney was now Halliburton Chairman and CEO. Cheney now struck a more business-like tone, cutting oil deals with Saddam Hussein. According to the Financial Times, from 1998-2000 Halliburton did nearly $24 million in business selling oil drilling equipment and services to Iraq. Cheney & Company circumvented the US embargo by…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…A “green zone” complex of massive size was built in Kabul, million dollar dwellings for warlords, drug barons and visiting US congressmen while Afghanistan, a nation with no drug problem at all and virtually no opium production, was converted, with technical expertise from USAID and the US Department of Agriculture, into supplying…
Source – journal-neo.org “…Although they inherited huge financial reserves…became dependent on the various militias that brought them to power. Along with that, these “brothers-in-arms” soon turned into implacable enemies. The country fell into an abyss of civil strife and, since the summer of 2014” The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya…
Source – unz.com – “…. Illicit drugs are major global commodities that continue to influence U.S. politics, both national and international. And our drug wars create profitable covert netherworlds in which those very drugs flourish and become even more profitable… the Agency’s operatives, like so many Corsican gangsters, practiced the “clandestine arts” of conducting complex…
Source – ammo.com – “…From 1982 to 2005, during the reign of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, over $75 billion is estimated to have been spent in efforts to spread Wahhabi Islam to various, much poorer Muslim nations worldwide. By comparison, the Soviets spent about $7 billion spreading communism worldwide in the 70 years from 1921 and 1991″ The…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…After the Bolshevik Revolution, Standard of New Jersey [Rockefeller] bought 50 per cent of the Nobel’s huge Caucasus oil fields even though the property had theoretically been nationalized [by Russia]. (O’Connor, Harvey, The Empire Of Oil, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1955, p.270.)”…“In 1927, Standard Oil of New York [Rockefeller] built…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…Rather than cultivate acceptance of a new religious zealotry in support of endless-endless war, the creditor / political class instead formulated a temporary phase of debt based material “success” and exhalation of hedonism…While America partied like it was 1999, the US military machine was greatly expanded during “peacetime” and prosecuted multiple…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Dick Cheney was now Halliburton Chairman and CEO. Cheney now struck a more business-like tone, cutting oil deals with Saddam Hussein. According to the Financial Times, from 1998-2000 Halliburton did nearly $24 million in business selling oil drilling equipment and services to Iraq. Cheney & Company circumvented the US embargo by…
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