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Is America’s pharmaceutical corporations drug cartel’s drug supply protected by US military and military private contractor agencies?
BY STEVEN KASZAB
Such was the British love for Chinese goods like porcelain, silk and of course tea that some of their merchants (i.e., East India Tea Company) got into drug trafficking to buy them, and that led to two wars in the 19th century. The problem was that the Chinese wanted to be paid in silver, but the British did not want to exhaust their reserves. Instead, they started exporting opium from India into China and sold it illegally for heaps of silver, with which they could buy what they wanted.
When China attempted to crack down on this illegal opium trade, as millions of Chinese became addicts, the British merchants sought help from the British Government in 1839. They got it in the form of a naval fleet. The far superior weaponry of the British forces meant that in 1842 the Chinese were forced to sue for peace with crushing economic, political and military terms including vast reparations, more ports opened to Europeans and Britain taking ownership of Hong Kong. The Chinese rebelled against these dishonourable terms and a second Opium War happened in 1856, leading to a joint British-French force crushing the Chinese forces one more time. The opium trade was legalized in China, and millions of Asian and Europeans suffered the horrific effects of addiction thereafter. That is how it was done in the 18th-19th century.
Fast forward to present day Afghanistan. Prior to NATO and USA invading Afghanistan, The Taliban, who saw it as un-Islamic, banned opium. The trade continued however at very low production rates in 2001, the year the USA invaded Afghanistan. Since the invasion, Afghanistan has produced 90% of the world’s opium, most of which ended up in Western Europe or Russia and reached an all-time high in 2014.
Why the increase? Is it in part attributed to the war-torn nation not being able to produce anything else, or more likely there is a correlation between the rise of Afghan Opium production and the presence of US Forces in Afghanistan?
Afghan heroin has killed over a million people worldwide since Operation Enduring Freedom began, and over a trillion dollars have been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales. Vicktor Ivanov, a present-day businessman, and former high ranking KGB Officer said, “Any impartial observer must admit the sad fact that the international community has failed to curb heroin production in Afghanistan since the start of the NATO Operation(P.E. Freedom).” The United Nations have shown that Afghan production of opium has increased thirty-five-fold since the US led invasion, from 185 tons in 2001 to 6,400 last year.
According to mainstream media prior to the US occupation of Afghanistan, President Obama, the Taliban and local Afghan warlords, all in defiance of the international community, were protecting the lucrative opium trade. It was said the opium trade was filling the Taliban’s coffers, when in fact it was a huge source of revenue for the US Government, its intelligence and military contractor communities as well as big pharma.
Under CIA and Pakistan Military protection, Pakistan and Afghan resistance opened many heroin labs along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Once the heroin left these labs, 60% of this heroin was captured by American, Pakistani or Afghan troops. That is to say, 60% of US heroin comes indirectly from a CIA-Governmental/Private Contractor operation.
Questioning this logic? Well, we know the British Government was manipulated and pressured by British Corporations to not only attack the Chinese homeland, but also invade China several times. This process resulted in the creation and spread of opium/heroin addictions throughout Asia and the world. Think America is a higher than mighty example greater than the British Empire? I think not.
Russia and China have their own designs upon Afghanistan. Russia see’s the Afghan Market as clients for weapons and the greatest source of heroin and opium for the Russian Drug market. China needs Afghanistan as a stepping-stone to Eurasia and the EU. America has realized that they do not need to have their troops in Afghanistan. They have learnt how to use private armies such as military contractors to do their bidding.
The UK and America decry drug dealing, drug addiction, yet they are their own greatest enemies. They are the greatest source of their own addiction pain. You have seen the historical facts showing what a consortium of corporations, and governmental intelligence agencies have done throughout history, and what they can do in the name of peacekeeping, population protections and national security.
Superpowers’ claims of protecting freedom and trying to end tyrannies is seemingly propaganda. There are those who only see profits, coercion, and power.