Mexico’s drug war, which official statistics say has claimed 34,000 lives in the past several years, still is not widely covered in the media. Journalists have been focusing more on Central America, where drug cartels are involved in a struggle for channels they used to smuggle cocaine, heroin and other […]
Narco-Sphere
The Opium Problem in Afghanistan and Russia at the End of the 20th Century
Nikita Mendkovich (Russia) Najibullah’s Kabul regime fell in 1992. Its defeat was a logical outcome of the termination of Russia’s material and technical support as US funding of the mujahedeen continued virtually unchanged even after Soviet forces withdrew. Unfortunately a new regime could not bring stability to the country: the […]
The Afghan Drug Threat As It Is
Alexander BARENTSEV (Russia) On 9-10 June Moscow hosted the forum ‘Afghan Drug Production-a Challenge to the International Community’. The event brought together participants from over 40 countries, including delegates from the UN, SCO, CSTO, NATO. Among the high-ranking participants there were Mr. Antonio Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office […]
Narco Atlantic Treaty Organization (II)
Konstantin PENZEV (Russia) Part 1 Now let’s take a look at some aspects of the current global financial crisis. The reader may find this surprising, but some economists argue that the crisis must have begun not in 2008 or 2009, but much earlier–in 2001. The following may explain why they […]
Narco Atlantic Treaty Organization (I)
Konstantin PENZEV (Russia) Not long ago, I was talking with a very smart friend who knows a lot about Russian history. As usual, the conversation turned to politics. It turned out that my friend has some pretty liberal opinions, but some of the ideas he expressed told me that he […]
The Histrionics of US Drug-Controlled Policy
Evgeny KHRUSCHEV (Russia) From plight to blight The US has launched a surreptitious germ warfare against the hard-working drug-farmers – or so claimed the narco-jihadist propaganda when a “mysterious” blight had suddenly struck the “good” part of the opium poppy fields on the eve of the harvest. A shot in […]
Christopher Coke Against the US, or the Global Elite and Narcotics
Andrei KONUROV (Russia) The police operation in the Kingston slums which would be more adequately described as a battle that lefts dozens of people dead or injured highlighted the problem of drug trafficking. The Jamaican government’s decision to extradite to the US renown drug lord Christopher Coke provoked an unexpectedly […]
Afghan Heroine Flow Channeled to Russia
Alexander BARENTSEV (Russia) According to the Head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary of State D. Johnson, the US State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report should reject the idea of opium poppy crop eradication in Afghanistan. The production of narcotics in Afghanistan has […]
Bucks for Drugs Ponzi Scheme
Evgeny Khrushchev (Russia) Valorization & monetization of the US drug policy A decision to set up a slush fund for Marja opium poppy farmers in the heat of the harvest campaign is the most effective way to dismantle counternarcotics strategy led by DEA and SOF and to reveal the State […]
Declaring War Against Afghan Drug
There are tens of thousands of drug-related deaths in Russia each year. Getting on top of the heroin problem means going back to the source in Afghanistan. Twenty years ago, not many in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city famous for Volga car and 900-year-old traditional architecture, had even heard […]
The Afghan War: “No Blood for Opium”
John JIGGENS (Australia) The Hidden Military Agenda is to Protect the Drug Trade OR republishes the article from the Global Research as a follow-up to our analysis of Kyrgyz ‘pro-Russian’ revolution earlier this month. It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming “No blood […]
Kyrgyzstan Destined To Become Another Narco-State?
On April 13 the prominent US research center STRATFOR published an analytical brief ‘Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Insurgence’. The main idea was spinning around the recent bloody riots in Kyrgyz’s capital Bishkek culminated with 84 dead, more than 1500 injured and the expulsion of the former President Bakiev and his […]
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