By James O’Neill*
One of the most encouraging statements made by the leadership of the Taliban movement that has recently swept to power in Afghanistan is that their zero tolerance for the country’s heroin production remains an article of faith.
During their last period in government from 1996 to 2001 the Taliban decimated the countries heroin crop. It was one of the first things that the United States invaders restored after the October 2001 invasion. This year the Afghanistan heroin crop accounted for an estimated 93% of the world’s heroin supply.
The role of the United States invaders in the restoration of the heroin trade has been one of the great unmentionables by the western media, who have barely acknowledged the role of Afghanistan in the world heroin trade, little alone the central role of the CIA in the control of production and distribution of the crop.
Production has soared in recent years, increasing by more than 20% in 2020 alone, to a total of approximately 8000 tonnes. Of that production, more than 80% is exported, fuelling a major heroin problem in both Europe and the United States, as well as Russia and China. In what is again one of the great unmentionables in the western media, that international distribution, and the profits therein, are under the control of the CIA.
The control of Afghanistan heroin is not the first such venture by the CIA. During the Vietnam war the CIA controlled opium production (of which heroin is a by-product) in South East Asia. The centre of activity during the Vietnam war was the so-called Golden Triangle largely centred in Laos. The refining of the opium into heroin was carried on at CIA headquarters in northern Laos. The United States controlled Air America was the vehicle for its worldwide distribution.
This is not new news. It was set out in detail by Professor Alfred McCoy of the United States in his book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. The publication of the McCoy’s book caused a furore at the time, but it did not constrain the CIA’s production and distribution of the heroin. That only came to an end with the routing of United States troops from Vietnam and Laos in 1975. The United States simply moved their production to Afghanistan and was a major factor in the United States’ involvement in that country from the late 1970s.
The description in the western media of the United States’ 20-year involvement in Afghanistan is totally misleading. It is in fact more than 40 years with the United States financing and arming the mujahedin to combat the Soviet presence in the country from 1980 to 1989. In more recent years the CIA has brought its al Qaeda and Daesh proxies into Afghanistan to justify the additional American troops. The Daesh forces, known locally as ISIS-Khorasan, a long-term United States asset, their protestations to be combatting them are no more than propaganda.
The conversion of opium into heroin requires chemicals that are not produced in Afghanistan. They have to be imported, and the major source countries are Italy, France and the Netherlands. It is no coincidence that all three countries have been contributors to the United States war effort in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have given assurances to their Russian and Chinese supporters that they retain their zero tolerance for the production of heroin. Assuming them to be as good as their word, the Americans will have to find another country to be the source for their heroin production and distribution industry.
That will not be easy as there are a diminishing number of countries willing to tolerate a United States military presence and with it the multiple social problems that invariably accompanies a United States military presence.
Asia is now closed off to them and there are few countries in the world that will tolerate being a replacement for Afghanistan, even if they have the geographical conditions that permit a growing of the crop.
An incidental benefit to the closing of the Afghanistan heroin fields is that the CIA will lose access to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of illicit “off the book’s” income. It is little wonder that the CIA was one of the strongest opponents of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The silence of the Australian media on the facts behind the production and distribution of the Afghanistan heroin has been shameful. It reflects the generally shabby reporting of the longest war Australia has been involved in. One might hope, probably in vain, that lessons have been learnt and that Australia will be more reluctant in the future to attach itself to another United States misadventure.
*Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com
James,
well everyone with a brain knows that the CIA is the greatest drug supplier in the world, after the pharmaceutical business.
Your last paragraph sums up our FAKE mass media and Crooked Dishonest politicians.
To think that the aforesaid consider themselves to be honest persons of high morality and integrity. They have no idea as to what the public really thinks of them.
X22report.com is interesting with a few topics, besides explaining the deep state doing regime changes in the past, including recently in the US. Explains, what had happened in Afghanistan etc.
RON BRIERLY (‘Bowerbird’ ! aged 84 years) comes up at about 9 min timeline…………..Now that is significant. Even today’s Saturday Telegraph gives the knighted New Zealander a double page spread with his collection of child photographs……………….. More to come re others from Maxwell?????
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-2557b-less-than-10-no-the-full-story-the-shot-heard-around-the-world/
Note re the Afghan withdrawal mess……….. compared with Dunkirk!!!!!!
Pity ‘The BIDEN’ did not study how Australians escaped Gallipoli without loss.
(Recall the 303s discharge delayed by water weights?. Our public would be too dumb these days to be that smart)
Terry, Note the 26+ min mark. WELL, you told us!!! Testing Testing!!!!
THE YELLOW DOT from about the 35 min timeline.
I knew about tracking printers decades ago!!. (there would hardly be a barrister practising criminal law who would not have known. In addition, with photocopies…….The trash/dust marks on the glass!!)
Poor democrats and our silly fake mass media and drongo sucked in politicians!!
Another good article James. A possible benefit from the curtailment of the opium fields could be that less of the population will be unthinking morons and scams like the Covid-19 event may be harder to pull off.
It must be remembered that it is not only the rabble of society that is hooked on the dangerous drugs. Who is it that has the finance to not only use the finished product but to pay for the purchase and distribution? Certainly not the unwashed, unemployed. People like Jeffery Epstein and young Biden come to mind.
Ned, following up on your video re military tribunals, a few days ago, it appears the story is correct. I have located court summaries of both Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. Both were found guilty with Hillary being hanged and Podesta faced a firing squad.
From same source Tom Hanks and Susan Rice have been dispensed with while William Jefferson Clinton’s trial is in progress. Bill Gates has been arrested and awaiting trial. His wife has pimped against him for a lesser criminal charge.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
But, still, I want to try a tickle with a feather to the nostril/s to check. Then again, a knitting needle would be preferred.
Bill Clinton got life in prison. Seems he sang like bird to be granted such a mercy.
I don’t see any mention of this in the Herald-Sun, do I have to wait for the next “Time” magazine ? ? ?
Have all of the above taken leave of their senses?
The Talibam wil continue the heroin sales to the west because the Chinese have already pointed out the historic justice and irony of reversing the Opium Wars. They did not need to mention the source of balance-of-trade income.
I wouldn’t know anything about it but I would think a ban on opium would mean a ban on CIA &/or Mohammad Bloggs producing and selling opium. The Russians will probably distribute it to Germany where they will find a new generation of enthusiastic locked-down and suicidal customers.
There’s no fooling you, W3
I saw a movie called “Tiergarten” in the 80’s which was the big nature park in Berlin, it was infested with junkies, probably with the Turks moving into Germany them, maybe
Who needs smack, where everyone will be ‘juiced up’ with luciferase (lucifer race).
Part of Trump’s deal with the Taliban was to have the poppy fields plowed under. The word ‘taliban’ means ‘student’. So now, Afghanistan, belongs to the rightful people and there will be no more incursions by Western nations.
Due to shortage of ploughs, Russian contractors will be engaged to plough the poppy fields for the next ten years ( renewable contract )
Present John Howard with a pick and send the bastard to go earn a honest living.
He can pay for his expenses out of our parliamentary pension trough.
Nemesis.. who is your source? Enid Blyton.
Heroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by the US-led War on Afghanistan by Michel Chossudovsky
By 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan had reduced opium production by 97 percent. As a result of Washington’s invasion, opium production jumped from 185 tons to 9,000 tons.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/06/heroin-addiction-america-spearheaded-us-led-war-afghanistan/
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A Conspiracy Theory that became a “Conspiracy Fact”: The CIA, Afghanistan’s Poppy Fields and America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-became-a-conspiracy-fact-the-cia-afghanistans-poppy-fields-and-americas-growing-heroin-epidemic/5533673
By Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 01 2016
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The heroin epidemic resembles the days when “Crack cocaine” became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in the early 1980’s…………
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…………Now the question is why heroin use has dramatically increased since 2002? Maybe the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 after the September 11th attacks under the Bush regime had something to do with it? The main-stream media (MSM) establishment mouthpiece The Washington Post admitted in 2006 that heroin production in Afghanistan “broke all records” while under U.S. occupation:
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Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world’s heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday.
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In addition to a 26 percent production increase over past year — for a total of 5,644 metric tons — the amount of land under cultivation in opium poppies grew by 61 percent. Cultivation in the two main production provinces, Helmand in the southwest and Oruzgan in central Afghanistan, was up by 132 percent
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Washington claims that Mexico is the source of the heroin that is flooding U.S. streets “with 10,500 hectares under poppy cultivation in 2012” while Afghanistan had “224,000 hectares” according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a 2014 report but the numbers tell a different story. Mexico’s heroin trade is small in comparison although it has been increasing its production capabilities.
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Read on –
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-became-a-conspiracy-fact-the-cia-afghanistans-poppy-fields-and-americas-growing-heroin-epidemic/5533673
x+… It seems you did not read my article “The Drug Lords War on Drugs” of a few years back.
I have lost many good bros to heroin. Someone wants to get pinned, so what, they know the risks.
The ones that looked down, as those(my bros) struggled with their stuff…, calling them junkies(or whatever), line up to be pinned now.
Karma is tough
what, no thumbs up, grrrr
(iknow just did this recently, I b shh now,peeps in all)
crazy times, no, question mark
Hey… not too fucking shabby. That’s talent and total commitment.
Agree, City of London/ Crown/CIA still run global drug trade. However, this is all one big psy op.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5H3iHZbOIlI
• The Daily Nationalist: Hope for Afghanistan – Sven Longshanks with Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson
https://www.radioalbion.com/2021/08/the-daily-nationalist-hope-for.html
Very topical and enlightening on quite a number of aspects.
It is not just the demise of the heroin trade – also perverted liberalism, institutionalised child abuse and usury.
Not far off topic …
If it’s from Eva K Bartlett it is topical and worth listening to …
• Eva K Bartlett interview with Marwa Osman on the criminal Israeli bombings of Syria yet again two nights ago, violating Lebanese airspace again to do so
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/interview-with-marwa-osman-on-the-criminal-israeli-bombings-of-syria-yet-again-two-nights-ago-violating-lebanese-airspace-again-to-do-so/
See the embedded video
• Marwa Osman with Eva K Bartlett on the Israeli bombings of Syria & the electricity, fuel & financial crisis in Lebanon
I didn’t realised that Marwa was such an expert on the workings of the private central banking Ponzi scheme, nor of the extent and depth of local corruption by petty oligarchs with Lebanon itself. She could almost be talking about Australia – and she is.
Nothing knew about the antics of the cowardly antihumans in the region though.
This is a great presentation by Daniel Dumbrill. Highly contextual if not topical. Please review his channel if you haven’t met him before.
• New Atrocity Consent Manufacturing Propaganda For America’s Next/Post-Afghanistan War – Daniel Dumbrill
Watch that first, then reflect on this:
“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.“
“Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of “propaganda.”
“… the injection of the poison of hatred into men’s minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
Read on … (please do – and share this resource)
• Falsehood of War-Time – Arthur Ponsonby
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.pdf
(Ponsonby was writing in 1928 about WWI, so none of this is new and original)
and then we can understand this …
“Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we’re only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final.
Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence and the weeds crop up again – those historical weeds of historical truth.”
Sefton Delmer – former Jewish British/Australian chief of ‘Black propaganda’ in a conversation with Dr Friedrich Grimm (German Professor of International Law)
Twenty Years (In Afghanistan) – parody song by B’Man (Abuse Productions)
Featured here in a comment by ‘BMan’ (BeulahMan) himself
https://www.winterwatch.net/2021/08/the-winter-watch-reference-guide-to-prepping-for-survival
Been busy at Winter Watch on this thread … a great conversation if anyone is interested. SC (Simple Citizen) is a particularly well-informed contributor.
https://www.winterwatch.net/2021/08/the-planned-bankster-duping-of-adolf-hitler/
Thanks for sharing my stuff!
I should have posted this on the parody thread …
The Zionists are a favourite part of Swissy’s disguise, they are an effective decoy which appeals strongly to certain Europeans. Today on one of the videos I heard a guy saying Swissy had a submarine tunnel from Geneva to the Atlantic. This tunnel would go straight under Lyon. I met a couple of young fellows from Lyon on a boat in Halong Bay, Vietnam, not so long ago, they were junior merchant bankers. One was chatty, one was secretive.
I think I hears Lyon had some history in this respect, it is very close to Swissy so, of course.
Only one way to deal with these Swissies
This is just tragic – on so many levels. He still hasn’t questioned what he was sent there for – and by whom.
• ‘Was losing my legs worth it?’ Aussie Paralympian ex-soldier questions his Afghanistan sacrifice amid Taliban takeover
https://www.rt.com/sport/532808-paralympian-curtis-mcgrath-afghanistan
The one thing we can be sure of regarding Afghanistan is that things are not what they seem. I just had a very informative and healthy exchange with my Uzbek neighbour. We resonate on most of the so-called ‘history’ of the last century (but certainly not all) and he has his own personal testimony on life under Stalin, coming from that region of the world (he is not a fan!). I also got a run down on Gog and Magog and a few other things – we don’t converge on everything but at least we are filling in some of the gaps.
In a roundabout way that chat made me recall Sheikh Imran Hosein and I am always interested in getting his perspective – and sure enough, here he talks about Afghanistan.
From 10:00 …
“… because on the 11th of September it will be 20 years since they invaded Afghanistan. And how did they do it? Yes, you know the story and I am not afraid to tell you what others are afraid. I’ve never been afraid to tell it – that there are three kinds of lies – you know it – the normal lies and then there are great lies and then there’s 9 11. … “
• Implications for Islam of US defeat in Afghanistan – Sheikh Imran Hosein
More watchers of the fake Kabul plane vid will have noticed the prominent number on it : 1109….
Just saw the y-tube (!) vid today, had different things to do…like being injected by mossad marmots in a carefully locked Amsterdam Tropen Hotel room in the night, I am still alive & kicking not exactly what they had in mind.
https://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/05/opium-war-reason-afghan-war-cia-killing-soldiers/
” The slc sweet little country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean since 1948″ murdered Pat Tillman to avoid him becoming an anti-war icon …”.He exposed in April 2004 the cia/mossad opium game of the j.bankers syndicat behind it all.
CIA O
Matthew Raphael Johnson – The Orthodox Nationalist – “The Taliban Victory”
https://www.radioalbion.com/2021/08/the-orthodox-nationalist-taliban.html
Great podcast by MRJ – some very telling observations and insights worth listening to – recommended.