Victor Ivanov , head of Russia’s federal drug control agency , said at least 30,000 people died in Russia every year from heroin, 90% of it from Afghanistan. Russia is believed to have around five million drug addicts, half of whom are addicted to heroin.
He accused Nato of not doing enough to curb the production...
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War
Afghanistan War: Dope and Hope
Masters of War
‘You can fool all of the people some of the time . . . and some of the people all of the time . . . but . . .
The US occupation forces in Afghanistan have learned a particular lesson from the disaster that is Iraq, and they have learned it big time....
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Ten Good reasons why we are fighting in Afganistan
1. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we are loyal Americans. We have unquestioning trust in the wisdom of our leaders.
2. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we are devoted to the principles of free trade and free enterprise. That is why we want to protect the heroin export business of President Karzai’s...
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Afghanistan – lying about dying
The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war.
Among the rituals so consoling to our Servants of the People in Westminster is the solemn roll call of the names of recently fatal casualties of...
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Serbia – 10 years on
A decade on from the Nato bombing campaign, more than 90,000 Serbs are still in danger from unexploded cluster munitions, according to a recent report funded by the Norwegian foreign ministry. The report says they face a daily threat and estimates that there are some 2,500 unexploded devices in 15 areas of Serbia. In...
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The War Business
Why do capitalist states prepare for and wage war?
As we socialists never tire of pointing out, the primary function of military power in capitalism is to protect and expand control over resources, markets and transport routes on behalf of the capitalist class of the country concerned. However, the costs and risks that wars and...
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Economic Roots of WW2
Chopping up history is a common method of distorting it and preventing anything being learned from it. Chopped-up history comes to us as a series of largely self-contained, unconnected and accidental events which were crucially influenced by the personalities of the leaders of the time. The implication is that there is no overall pattern...
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A Booming Industry (even in a recession)
A recent issue of the magazine TIME (14 October) highlighted the immense profits to be made in capitalism even in a trade recession. ” Need to start a war? No problem. While stock markets grate and financial institutions (and even whole countries, like Iceland) teeter on bankruptcy, one global industry is still drawing plenty...
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Why The Economic Crisis?
The WSP has produced three leaflets (in pdf format) meant to aid working people to understand the causes of the current economic crisis: “Booms and slumps – what causes them?” – Discusses in plain terms the causes of economic cycles and why “Ultimately, it is the economy that controls politicians and not the other...
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“Humanitarian” Intervention
There is nothing new in governments claiming to be motivated by humanitarian concerns when they go to war. To take a couple of old examples: tsarist Russia supposedly fought the Ottoman Empire in order to rescue Armenians from massacre by the Turks, while British intervention following the German invasion of Belgium in 1914 was...
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