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NATO helping boost Afghan heroin production: Russia

Thu, 2014-03-06 02:18 by Geoffrey Taylor

Published (5 Mar 2014) on PressTV. See also: Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study (1/5/2014), Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade? (Sep 2006), Heroin is "Good for Your Health": Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade (Apr 2007), Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State (May 2009), Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks (13 May 2013), #more-24953">Joke of the Day: UN Says Afghanistan Risks Becoming 'Narco-State'! (9 Oct 2013), The Afghan economy is reconverting to opium (Nov 2013), Global opium and heroin production explodes (Feb 2014), Unprecedented Increase in World Opium Production (Feb 2014), 'Unprecedented increase in opium production' (13 Feb 2014), Afghan Heroin Flow Channeled to Russia (May 2010), Opium Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service has blamed the US-led NATO forces for the surge in Afghanistan's drug production.

On Wednesday, Russia's drugs tsar accused the US and its NATO allies of helping a surge in Afghanistan's heroin production.

Viktor Ivanov from the Russian Drug Control Service says NATO forces are directly responsible for a boost in narcotic cultivations in Afghanistan.

He also noted that US-led troops have in fact helped create a catastrophic surge, while refusing to check on farmers there.

"According to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Washington has no counternarcotics strategy for Afghanistan after international troops pull out of the country," Ivanov said at a meeting of the State Anti-Drug Committee in Moscow.

The remarks come as countries around the globe have been directly hit by the recent upswing in narco-production of Afghanistan. The situation is likely to worsen as foreign troops seek to stay there for some more years even beyond the 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of foreign forces.

Drug abuse annually claims up to 100,000 lives in Russia, according to the Russian Federal Drug Control Service.

Earlier in January, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Andrey Avetisyan blamed the international community for not doing enough to turn the tide of the alarming trend.

Narcotics trade flourished in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban, who earned part of their funding through the lucrative drug business.

The United Nations reports however indicate that narcotics production and drug smuggling have increased in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.

Since 2001, the opium cultivation increased over 4,400% across Afghanistan. Under the US-led NATO forces, Afghanistan became world largest opium producer, which produces 93% of world opium.

Analysts believe when the history of USA involvement in Afghanistan is written, Washington's sordid involvement in the heroin trade and its alliance with drug lords and war criminals will be one of the most shameful chapters.

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Tue, 2010-08-17 01:05 by Menkit Prince

BP/gas/mining/cattle interests are conspiring with government (Bureau of Land Management) to uses taxpayer funds in order to control how public lands are managed. The rounding up and destruction of wild mustangs in Nevada is for the Ruby Pipeline (675 million acres for the cost of $3 billion using 42" pipe going from Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah to Oregon) and the 2nd biggest beneficiary of this pipeline is BP. Surprise, surprise!

In 1971 fifty million acres in NV were set aside for the wild mustangs estimated at 2 million at the time - and now they are being exterminated (much like the kangaroos in Australia) by the government. Same old excuses - there are too many of them, they are starving, eating too much grass, drinking too much water, destroying riparian areas, being a threat to themselves and environment etc ad nauseum. Currently mustangs are estimated at 20,000 - but are outnumbered 50:1 by cattle and sheep. Yet these horses have been evolving here for millions of years, it is their birthplace and are not an invasive species to North America at all. As with kangaroos in Australia, officials are closing off access to waterholes to the mustangs so that only livestock can have it.

In May 2008, Canberra 'culled' 514 wild kangaroos
in the way of yet another housing development

The science they used to justify the roundup is the same shoddy science they use for kangaroo killing. And for the same reason - cows and other vested interests! And no oversight on the process.

Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars (75% of BLM's horse budget) is being spent to feed 33,000 horses in corrals that are destined for slaughter.

This is the truth about the horses, their land and how it's been handed over to Big Agriculture (Corporate Cattle Ranches) and Big Oil, all at the expense of the U.S. Tax Payer and in violation of U.S. Federal Law.

It's interesting to see that three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the usual revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill, a Washington Post analysis shows.

Key lobbying hires include 18 former members of Congress and dozens of former presidential appointees. For other senior management positions, the industry employs two former directors of the Minerals Management Service , the since-renamed agency that regulates the industry, and several top officials from the Bush White House. Federal inspectors once assigned to monitor oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico have landed jobs with the companies they regulated.

I will never forget the look of total despair on the faces of these wild mustangs when I saw them corralled by the freeway going from NV to CA. It made me feel desperate to free them.....all just so cows and sheep can graze there instead for pennies.

It's an extremely sad issue - and I hope that people who care about wild horses and kangaroos realise that they are contributing to the very industry that is destroying them if they eat cows and sheep.

1. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/mustangconspiracy/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/mustangconspiracy/part2.html
2. http://rtfitch.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/blms-wild-horse-elimination-plan-angers-ecologist/
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072106468_pf.html
4. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Departments/Interior/IS/DS/LMM/BOE

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