This is the list of U.S. coups during the Cold War that’s presented in the highly regarded 2018 academic book COVERT REGIME CHANGE, by Lindsey O’Rourke. (Only the start-date for each coup is shown here, but some of these coups went on for years; 39% succeeded at Government-overthrow, 61% did […]
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Ecuador’s Power Crisis: Who Really Holds Power In The Country?
Ecuador has become a hotspot for global drug trafficking and all those groups that wish to control these flows and the profits they bring.
Drug-Dealing Is Just A Business Now
There has been a strong global campaign to legalize drugs. This lobbying for global drug trade has taken on a truly international dimension.
Why Would Washington Want To “Drug Colonize” Latin America?
The widespread distribution of drugs in Latin America results from historical factors and surging demand from the US itself.
Afghanistan: Graveyard Of Empires
The last week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war strategy in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. Americans have been fed a steady stream of lies about the Afghan War, concluded the Post. So asserted this writer in […]
China’s Fentanyl Crackdown Might Help Trump Win Reelection
China promised to crack down on all types of fentanyl products. Trump declared back in December that he reached a verbal agreement with President Xi to this end, but it wasn’t until earlier this week that the Chinese declared that they’ll list all fentanyl-related products as scheduled substances next month, […]
AMLO’s Approach To Ending The Cartel Wars Could Inadvertently Backfire
Mexico is therefore in a conundrum because it must urgently deal with the cartels yet there’s no perfect solution for doing so, as the existing “hard” policy has evidently failed while the “soft” one could amount to surrendering the state to their clutches.
The Great War For Civilization: Flashpoint
There are now ever increasing flashpoints, domestic as well as global, that could lead to the Great War – one of desperation which had led to WW2.
Who will win the Power Struggle for Tajikistan in the Central Asian ‘Great Game’?
Central Asia largely evades mainstream media coverage. This is despite it being the centre of a fascinating, ‘great game’ geopolitical contest; fought by the nations of Russia, China, the U.S., and Iran. This is a niche article specifically focusing on Tajikistan, which is vastly underdeveloped, resource rich, and ruled by […]
U.S. Role in Global Drug Trafficking
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a briefing of the series of articles by Konstantin Penzev recently posted by the New Eastern Outlook (here, here and here). He carefully reviews the sources of the global narco-culture tracking back to the clandestine experiments done in the military laboratories of the United States as early […]
Who Runs the Global Drug Mafia (II)
Part I As noted in the previous part of the paper, the global drug mafia is a three-level formation. The strategic objectives pursued at the executive Level 3 are: • The whitewashing of the cash flows generated by drug sales; • Revenue investment in various sectors of the economy; • […]
Global Drug Mafia and the Banks
These days, the drug mafia theme attracts permanent media coverage. One of the aspects that cannot be avoided in the context is the involvement of the financial sector – for hefty risk premiums – in money laundering for the narcotics business. Banks and the Drug – Business: Seamless Integration Rather […]
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