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Post by emerald on Nov 7, 2020 14:11:12 GMT -5
Major Mexican Cartels: Drug Wars And Business Cocaine from Colombia supplies most of the U.S. market, and most of that supply now passes through Mexico, with Mexican drug traffickers the primary wholesalers of cocaine to the United States. According to official estimates, coca cultivation and cocaine production in Colombia have risen or remained constant over the last couple of years, with the U.S. government estimating that Colombia produced a record 921 metric tons of pure cocaine in 2017. For 2018, the U.S. government reported that Colombia’s coca cultivation dropped slightly to 208,000 hectares and its potential cocaine production declined to an estimated 887 metric tons. southfront.org/major-mexican-cartels-drug-wars-and-business/
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Post by emerald on Nov 7, 2020 14:12:15 GMT -5
Afghanistan, Garden of Empire: America’s Multibillion Dollar Opium Harvest By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse. The UN General Assembly is committed to developing awareness regarding the Illicit trafficking of narcotics. www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest/5324196
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:30:13 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:32:13 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:32:40 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:38:35 GMT -5
The Massacre at My Lai Early on March 16, 1968, a company of soldiers in the United States Army’s Americal Division were dropped in by helicopter for an assault against a hamlet known as My Lai 4, in the bitterly contested province of Quang Ngai, on the northeastern coast of South Vietnam. A hundred G.I.s and officers stormed the hamlet in military-textbook style, advancing by platoons; the troops expected to engage the Vietcong Local Force 48th Battalion—one of the enemy’s most successful units—but instead they found women, children, and old men, many of them still cooking their breakfast rice over outdoor fires. During the next few hours, the civilians were murdered. Many were rounded up in small groups and shot, others were flung into a drainage ditch at one edge of the hamlet and shot, and many more were shot at random in or near their homes. Some of the younger women and girls were raped and then murdered. After the shootings, the G.I.s systematically burned each home, destroyed the livestock and food, and fouled the area’s drinking supplies. None of this was officially told by Charlie Company to its task-force headquarters; instead, a claim that a hundred and twenty-eight Vietcong were killed and three weapons were captured eventually emerged from the task force and worked its way up to the highest American headquarters, in Saigon. There it was reported to the world’s press as a significant victory.
The Scene of the Crime
There is a long ditch in the village of My Lai. On the morning of March 16, 1968, it was crowded with the bodies of the dead—dozens of women, children, and old people, all gunned down by young American soldiers. Now, forty-seven years later, the ditch at My Lai seems wider than I remember from the news photographs of the slaughter: erosion and time doing their work. During the Vietnam War, there was a rice paddy nearby, but it has been paved over to make My Lai more accessible to the thousands of tourists who come each year to wander past the modest markers describing the terrible event. The My Lai massacre was a pivotal moment in that misbegotten war: an American contingent of about a hundred soldiers, known as Charlie Company, having received poor intelligence, and thinking that they would encounter Vietcong troops or sympathizers, discovered only a peaceful village at breakfast. Nevertheless, the soldiers of Charlie Company raped women, burned houses, and turned their M-16s on the unarmed civilians of My Lai. Among the leaders of the assault was Lieutenant William L. Calley, a junior-college dropout from Miami.
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:42:01 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:42:27 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:44:30 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:45:31 GMT -5
Deep State misappropriation and the cryptocratic clique behind Trump™ The right-wing media, from Infowars to Fox News, has been bandying the previously obscure term “deep state” about in reference to an alleged attempt within the executive bureaucracy and intelligence community to sabotage and undermine the Trump administration and its agenda. (This strategy, if it even exists, apparently isn’t working at all whatsoever since it hasn’t materially damaged Trump in any way and has only served to further rile up his already overwrought devotees.) Their gullible viewers have fully bought into the theater and truly believe that they’re peering into deep state machinations like out of a spy movie. www.exposetheenemy.com/deep-state-misappropriation-and-the-cryptocratic-clique-behindtrump
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Post by emerald on Nov 10, 2020 13:47:46 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Nov 11, 2020 13:38:16 GMT -5
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