Source – rt.com – A panel of top global narcotics experts fronted by prominent public figures including Kofi Annan, Richard Branson and eight ex-national presidents, is strongly urging that drugs be a matter for health professionals, not the police, in a new report. “Overwhelming evidence points to not just the failure of the drug control regime…
Source – ragingbullshit.com – In the following two videos Peter Dale Scott, one of the world’s foremost experts on the deep state, joins The Corbett Report to discuss the deep history of the drug trade and its connections to the financial industry and intelligence agencies. Needless to say, it’s essential viewing for anyone who wants…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – In 1997 Trilateral Commission founder and Obama foreign policy impetus Zbigniew Brzezinski – godfather of the Afghan mujahedeen – wrote a book titled, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geopolitical Imperatives. In the book Brzezinski – who sat on the board at BP Amoco – argues that the key to…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – In the mid-1980’s the UN tried to broker a peace deal in Afghanistan involving a complete Soviet withdrawal in return for an end to US and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) support for the Afghan rebels. The Reagan Administration refused the UN deal. They wanted to “give the Soviets their Vietnam” as…
Source – reuters.com – An oil company owned by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler said on Thursday it had discovered reserves of around 3 billion barrels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Oil of DRCongo said in a statement that an analysis of seismic survey data “indicates around three billion barrels of oil in place”. The…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – The Wall Street Journal reported awhile back that the Syrian government had reversed a ban on women teachers wearing Islamic face cover in the classroom. The concession to Western-backed Islamist protesters was instructive, since the secular socialist Assad government is clearly in the cross-hairs of City of London bankers attempting to…
Source – – “Gaddafi envisages a single African military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent” – At an AU Executive Council session in Tripoli, he called on the continent to speed up the integration process. His vision of a pan-African government was at the heart…
Source – theguardian.com – Israel’s defence minister has confirmed that military plans to ‘uproot Hamas’ are about dominating Gaza’s gas reserves – A Palestinian boy plays in the rubble of a home wrecked in an Israeli air raid on Beit Hanoun, Gaza A Palestinian boy plays in the rubble of a house destroyed in an…
Source – weeklywonk.newamerica.net – Oil powers our cars and our economy. But it’s also a fuel source for bribery and corruption across the globe. Ken Silverstein, an award-winning investigative journalist and former Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine, shines a light on the industry’s darkest secrets in his new book, “The Secret World of Oil”. In…
Source – amazon.com – Big Oil… pulls back the covers to expose a centuries-old cabal of global oligarchs, whose control over the global economy is based on hegemony over the planet’s three most valuable commodities: oil, guns and drugs- combined with ownership of the world’s central banks. Henderson implicates these oligarchs in the orchestration of…
Source – globalresearch.ca – When the special interests who created and direct the agenda of the European Union disagree with member states, the true nature of this supranational enterprise becomes painfully apparent one of dictatorial special interests pursing regional policy that benefits none of its individual member states. No example of this can be…
Source – theguardian.com – Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive “regime change” in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west’s oil supplies, by planning the invasion of Syria and the assassination of leading figures. Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 Harold…
Source – naturalsociety.com, by Christina Sarich – There is a history of ignoring scientific facts on marijuana. The demonization of cannabis was perpetuated with decisions made by President Richard Nixon and is carried forward through today’s DEA. But the tides are shifting. Cannabis was not always illegal, in the US, or elsewhere. Chinese Emperor Fu…
Source – blacklistednews.com – Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Pentagon spending on defense contractors skyrocketed, totaling $3.3 trillion over the past decade. The years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been a boon to defense contractors. Back in 2001, Defense Department contracts totaled $147.9 billion. After that, contract spending went up every year to…
Source – veteranstoday.com – As Western dependence on Third World resources has increased, it has become increasingly necessary for the international bankers and their corporations to include local elite cliques in their capital accumulation schemes, making a small group of local people extremely wealthy so that this group will cooperate in selling local resources cheaply…
Source – globalresearch.ca, By Sam Muhho – In the duration of the “revolutionary frenzy” that categorized western media coverage of the Libyan Civil War in 2011, public audiences were captivated with both tales of rebels aspiring for “democracy” and with complimenting stories of unabated brutality by Gaddafi forces. Without any serious mainstream criticism, an imperialist…
Source –globalresearch.ca/, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky – The Western media in chorus have described the unfolding conflict in Iraq as a “civil war” opposing the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham against the Armed forces of the Al-Maliki government. (Also referred to as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of…
Source – commondreams.org – This undated image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq’s Anbar province. The internal strife and civil war spurred by the U.S.…
Source – voiceofrussia.com – Uganda said Wednesday that a new cult-like rebel army has been formed with financial support from Western “individuals,” according to dpa reports. The funding for the newly organized rebel group comes from the US, UK, Canada and Australia, the Uganda police spokesman claims. Six people including a senior army official have…
Source – bloomberg.com – Oil shale drillers in Texas have had to contend with environmental opposition and soaring costs. A few miles south of the border in Mexico, Angel Torrez and co-workers duck gunfire sprayed from drug traffickers. When gunmen pulled up in April in a makeshift tank and riddled the Hotel Asya with bullets,…
Source: whowhatwhy.com – Will Bulgaria be the next testing ground in the escalating confrontation between Putin’s Russia and the West—and why should you care? The answer may have something to do with gas. Follow the Pipelines “If the Russians get their way in Ukraine, we will be the next country they will turn their attention…
Source: independent.co.uk – The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.25m) in September. The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a “misunderstanding” and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But fresh court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately…
Source: washingtonsblog.com – And the U.S. Launched 201 Out of the 248 Armed Conflicts Since the End of WWII The June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health notes (free PDF here; hat tip David Swanson): Around 90% of all deaths in war are civilians: “The proportion of civilian deaths and the methods…
Source: rt.com – By ramping the oil price up or bringing it down, it’s easy to plunge counties into deep recession or stimulate economic boom, a tactic used by the US to regain lost ground in the Middle East, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT. RT: US oil production levels have been skyrocketing in recent…
Source:by Sherman H. Skolnick, http://www.skolnicksreport.com,4-2-4 –There are many big secrets with Coca-Cola. Naturally, the monopoly press, with their financial and espionage hang-ups and conflicts of interest, are certainly in no position to ever tell you about it. Since started several decades after the American Civil War, what was it that made Coca-Cola so popular? There were…
Source: independent.co.uk – Experts from the Drinking Water Inspectorate found supplies contained benzoylecgonine, the metabolised form of the drug that appears once it has passed through the body. It is the same compound that is looked for in urine-based drug tests for cocaine. Steve Rolles, from the drug policy think tank Transform, told The Sunday…
Source:WashingtonsBlog – It has become mainstream news that at least some of the big banks are laundering staggering sums of drug money. See this, this, this, this, this, this and and this. But you may not know the scope or history of the problem. Official statistics show that huge sums of drug money are laundered…
Source: http://uruknet.info – On the 11th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (launched in March 2003), it is important to emphasize the true motives for this attack and occupation and its horrendously destructive impact that continues today. Both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars stem from the needs of U.S. and Western capitalism for resources…
Source: http://rt.com Washington is pushing Venezuela towards a “civil war” because it wants access to the country’s rich oil reserves, Bolivian President Evo Morales has warned. The Venezuelan government has also accused the US of fomenting a coup d’état. Addressing over 3,000 young people at a Latin American Youth Summit in the Bolivian city of…
Source: neworleans.legalexaminer.com, By Greg Palast, April 21, 2014 – “There was CIA involvement through a company called Mega Oil. They were shipping in arms under the cover of oil tools.” Said the BP executive who was explaining to me how the CIA, MI6 and British Petroleum engineered a coup d’état, overthrowing a nation’s elected president…
U.S. global source of poverty and war
Source: Peter Dale Scott, lobster-magazine.co.uk Violence and the Political Requirements of the Global Drug Traffic – In the last three decades, three important facts have emerged about the international drug traffic. The first is that it is both huge and growing. Narcotics are estimated to be worth between $500 billion and $1 trillion a year,…
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