glad someone is addressing the out of shopoholism and materialism rampant in the West

Archive of Bollyn’s work PRE-disappearance

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From: Eddie
Date: Feb 26, 2008 1:15 PM

Kosovo drug mafia supply heroin to Europe

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See how KOSOVO is the base of HEROIN TRAFFICKING! THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY US NATO IS PUSHING FOR KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE!

CIA DRUG RUNNERS!

AFGHANISTAN OPIUM: Financing the Enemy; Expanding the War

BUSH CIA IS THE KINGPIN OF COCAINE TRAFFICKING!

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Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan
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by Vladimir Radyuhin

Global Research, February 24, 2008
Frontline

The global proceeds of the Afghan drug trade is in excess of 150 billion dollars a year. There is mounting evidence that this illicit trade is protected by the US military.

Historically, starting in the early 1980s, the Afghan drug trade was used to finance CIA covert support of the Islamic brigades. The 2003 war on Afghanistan was launched following the Taliban government’s 2000-2001 drug eradication program which led to a collapse in opium production in excess of 90 percent.

The following report, which accuses the United States of using military transport planes to ship narcotics out of Afghanistan confirms what is already known and documented regarding the Golden Crescent Drug Trade and its insiduous relationship to US intelligence.

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Russia, facing a catastrophic rise in drug addiction, accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking from Afghanistan.
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AFP
JOHN MACDOUGALL
February 23, 2008

Afghan workers cutting open poppy bulbs, the first stage in the harvesting process, in Jalalabad.

Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world’s heroin supply.

Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

Commenting on reports that the United States military transport aviation is used for shipping narcotics out of Afghanistan, the Russian envoy said there was no smoke without fire.

“If such actions do take place they cannot be undertaken without contact with Afghans, and if one Afghan man knows this, at least a half of Afghanistan will know about this sooner or later,” Kabulov told Vesti, Russia’s 24-hour news channel. “That is why I think this is possible, but cannot prove it.”

Afghan narcotics are an extremely painful issue for Russia. They first hit the Russian market during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s when Russian soldiers developed a taste for Afghan heroin and smuggled it back to Russia.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991 threw open the floodgates of drug trafficking from Afghanistan across Central Asia to Russia and further west to Europe. Afghanistan’s narcotics struck Russia like a tsunami, threatening to decimate its already shrinking population. According to the Federal Drug Control Service, 90 per cent of all heroin sold in Russia comes from Afghanistan. Russia today has about six million drug-users – a 20-fold increase since the collapse of the Soviet Union and a huge figure for a country of 142 million people.

The Federal Drug Control Service said earlier in January that as many as 30 to 40 million people in Russia may have tried drugs at least once. Annually, some 80,000 Russians die of drug-related causes. One in five crimes committed in Russia is related to drugs. The illegal drug turnover in Russia is estimated at between $10 and $15 billion, discounting transit trafficking.

Narcotics have become an integral part of the youth subculture in Russia. In Moscow alone narcotics are sold at about 100 discotheques and cafes frequented by young people, the city drug control service reported in December. About 45 per cent of Russian university students use drugs, according to Russian Minister for Education and Science Andrei Fursenko. He described the situation as “critical”. The Moscow city government plans to introduce mandatory drug tests for all students in the Russian capital this year. Schoolchildren may be next in line for screening: some surveys indicate that four out of five young Russians are familiar with drugs. The Russian Parliament is planning to discuss a law to allow compulsory treatment of drug and alcohol addicts.

President Vladimir Putin has described the drug abuse problem as a “national calamity”. The catastrophic rise in drug addiction in Russia has been spurred by the painful transition from socialism to capitalism that Russia has been going through since 1991. Millions lost their jobs and were reduced to abject poverty during Russia’s worst-ever economic meltdown in the 1990s. But external factors have played a crucial role in the spread of drugs. Last year Putin bluntly stated that Russia and Europe had been victims of “narco-aggression”.

When the Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent states, Moscow overnight lost control of nearly 5,000 kilometres of former Soviet borders in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the same time, nearly 8,000 km of what used to be internal nominal boundaries between ex-Soviet republics became Russia’s new state borders.

In 1993, Russian border guards returned to Tajikistan in an effort to contain the flow of drugs from opium-producing Afghanistan. In 2002 alone they intercepted 6.7 tonnes of drugs, half of them heroin. However, in 2005 Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon, hoping to win financial aid from the U.S., asked the Russian border guards to leave, saying Tajikistan had recovered enough from a five-year civil war (from 1992-97) to shoulder the task. Within months of the Russian withdrawal, cross-border drug trafficking increased manifold.

Turkmenistan, another major opium route from Afghanistan, threw out Russian border guards in 1999. Since 2000, Turkmenistan has reported no drug seizures to international organisations. President Saparmurat Niyazov, who died last year, claimed his country had no drug problem. However, independent surveys indicate that up to half of Turkmenistan’s male population use drugs. In 2002, the country’s Prosecutor-General Kurbanbibi Atadzhanova was arrested for operating a drug-trafficking ring.

Seventeen years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, borders between the newly independent states are still porous and travel is visa-free. Air passengers arriving from Central Asia are routinely screened for drugs in Russian airports, but if drugs are shipped by land, there is only a remote chance that they get intercepted.

Afghanistan under the U.S.

When Russia backed the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the post-9/11 scenario, the last thing it expected to happen was that drug trafficking from Afghanistan would assume gargantuan proportions under the U.S. military. Since 2001, poppy fields, once banned by the Taliban, have mushroomed again. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world’s heroin supply.

The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] forces in the country have not only failed to eliminate the terrorist threat from the Taliban, but also presided over a spectacular rise in opium production. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Afghanistan was on the brink of becoming a “narco state”.

Narco business has emerged as virtually the only economy of Afghanistan and is valued at some $10 billion a year. Opium trade is estimated by the U.N. to be equivalent to 53 per cent of the country’s official economy and is helping to finance the Taliban.

“Unfortunately, they [NATO] are doing nothing to reduce the narcotic threat from Afghanistan even a tiny bit,” Putin angrily remarked three years ago. He accused the coalition forces of “sitting back and watching caravans haul drugs across Afghanistan to the former Soviet Union and Europe.” As time went by, Russian suspicions regarding the U.S. role in the rise of a narco state in Afghanistan grew deeper, especially after reports from Iraq said that the cultivation of opium poppies was spreading rapidly there too.

“The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] provides protection to drug trafficking.”

U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in American Chronicle in December what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told NewsMax.com in March 2002 of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.”

AFP

A USAF cargo plane takes off from the U.S. airbase in Incirlik in Turkey in March 2003. (photo removed from the site…)

A Russian news channel reported that drugs from Afghanistan were hauled
by American transport aircraft to the U.S. airbases in Kyrgyzstan and Turkey.

Now Russia has joined the fray accusing the U.S. military of involvement in the heroin trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. The Vesti channel’s report from Afghanistan said that drugs from Afghanistan were hauled by American transport aircraft to the U.S. airbases Ganci in Kyrgyzstan and Incirlik in Turkey.

The Ganci Air Force base at the Manas international airport in Kyrgyzstan was set up in late 2001 as a staging post for military operations inside Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz government threatened to close the base after neighbouring Uzbekistan shut down a similar U.S. airbase on its territory in 2005, but relented after Washington agreed to make a one-off payment of $150 million in the form of an assistance package and to pay $15 million a year for the use of the base.

One of the best-informed Russian journalists on Central Asia, Arkady Dubnov, recently quoted anonymous Afghan sources as saying that “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by U.S. aviation.”

A well-informed source in Afghanistan’s security services told the Russian journalist that the American military acquired drugs through local Afghan officials who dealt with field commanders in charge of drug production.

Writing in the Vremya Novostei daily, Dubnov claimed that the pro-Western administration of President Hamid Karzai, including his two brothers, Kajum Karzai and Akhmed Vali Karzai, are head-to-heels involved in the narcotics trade.

The article quoted a leading U.S. expert on Afghanistan, Barnett Rubin, as telling an anti-narcotics conference in Kabul last October that “drug dealers had infiltrated Afghani state structures to the extent where they could easily paralyse the work of the government if decision to arrest one of them was ever made.”

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke said in January that “government officials, including some with close ties to the presidency, are protecting the drug trade and profiting from it.”

In an article carried by Washington Post, the diplomat described the $1-billion-a-year U.S. counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan as “the single most ineffective programme in the history of American foreign policy.”

“It’s not just a waste of money. It actually strengthens the Taliban and Al Qaeda, as well as criminal elements within Afghanistan,” Holbrooke wrote in the The Washington Post in early January.

It is an open question whether the Russian charges of U.S. complicity in drug trafficking are based on hard evidence or have been prompted by Moscow’s frustration at Washington’s failure to address the opium problem in Afghanistan. But it is a fact that the U.S. and NATO have stonewalled numerous offers of cooperation from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a defence pact of six former Soviet republics.

Nikolai Bordyuzha, CSTO Secretary-General, quoted a Pentagon general as telling him: “We are not fighting narcotics because this is not our task in Afghanistan.”

Instead of joining hands with the SCO and the CSTO in combating the narcotics threat, the CSTO chief said, the U.S. was working to set up rival security structures in the region. Washington is working to “drive a geopolitical wedge between Central Asian countries and Russia and to reorient the region towards the U.S.”, Bordyuzha said last year.

With the U.S. and NATO rebuffing their cooperation offers, Russia, China and the Central Asian states have to rely on their own forces in combating the narcotics threat from Afghanistan. The CSTO has been running a wide-ranging aid and military assistance programme for Afghanistan, which includes training Afghan anti-narcotic police.

Last year, the SCO joined in signing a cooperation protocol with the CSTO, which is aimed, above all, at curbing drug trafficking. At its summit in Bishkek, the Kyrgyzstan capital, last August, the SCO decided to set up jointly with the CSTO an “anti-narcotics belt” around Afghanistan.

Robert A. Scalapino (Director Emeritus)

Peter Ackerman
Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.

some great information, some lies, some disinfo.

Mixed Batch:

look at the panel. who do they look like? maybe the government should spy ON THEM!

The Assassination of Larry Davis: an interview with nephew Barry Davis and POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr

pt. 1

by Minister of Information JR

Larry Davis, a former New York city resident with the persona of an 80’s hood folkloric figure, was assassinated in Shawanga Concentration Camp in Upstate New York, reportedly on February 19th after being shanked (knifed) numerous times, while he was in captivity. Larry Davis’ name is huge in the streets of Black ghettos across Amerikkka, because he was drug dealer who worked directly for the pigs, and wanted to quit, so the police sent a hit squad to kill him. When they kicked in his door, they were met with gunfire and a number of the officers who were sent to assassinate him, were seriously injured, while Larry escaped. 17 days later, he was cornered and taken captive.

I felt like this was a very important interview to bring to the community because of all of this media push behind this drug dealing government agent Frank Lucas in the recent box-office release “American Gangster” being viewed as the “kingpin” behind the heroin boom of the 60’s and 70’s that was coming out of the Vietnam War affected areas instead of the U.S. Government, the real masterminds behind the drug trade. Larry Davis’ story is free of any government sanctioned embellishments. Larry was working for the police. He didn’t want to do it any more, so they tried to kill him. He shot some of them in that particular police home invasion, and got away, and eventually was captured. After B.E.T., the makers of the television series “American Gangster” contacted Larry Davis, who was being held captive, about doing his story, he ended up dead.

To discuss this in part 1 of this series of articles, I have Barry Davis, the nephew of Larry Davis, and POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr to discuss the life of Larry Davis, in context to the politics of the American government and the devious role that it continues to play in the drug trade in the Black community. Read the words of Barry Davis and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. in this exclusive Q and A.

MOI JR: Who is your uncle Larry Davis?

Barry Davis: Larry Davis is basically a person who went to war with the cops. He was a young guy caught up in the middle of a bunch of turmoil in New York city streets, took a couple of wrong turns, and tried to come out of that the best way that he could, and did it the best way that he could. And that was by defending himself, and he got it done.

MOI JR: Can you give us a more in depth history of who Larry Davis is, I understand that he was a kingpin, in the New York area, that was working directly for the police at one point?

Barry Davis: At one point, you know? I wouldn’t say that he was a kingpin, I would say that he was more of a pawn, and the real kingpins were the police that he was working for.

MOI JR: No doubt. Can you talk about a little bit about his relationship with the police and how it went sour?

Barry Davis: Be it that I was kind of young during the time, from my perspective of what was going on be it that I was there, was that he was a soldier working for them, and decided, because you gotta understand his fam and background because he comes from a real baptist background, everybody goes to church on Sunday, and his mother and father they were there. Being from that background, he knew what he was doing, and when he tried to come up out of that, they wouldn’t let him, because he was making so much money for them. And the way he did it, they just couldn’t allow for it to go down like that. He had to do what he had to do.

MOI JR: What year did he catch his case, and could you tell the people a little bit about his case?

Barry Davis: Around the time, ‘86, that’s when he did what he had to do with these police officers, but when he had his run, it was prior to that, you’re talking about maybe ‘82-’86. From then, he was just running around doing what the police had him doing; drugs, strongarm or whatever. Whatever they needed for him to do, that’s what he was doing for them.

MOI JR: Was he reportin’ directly to the police in uniform, or was he reporting to pigs that were undercover?

Barry Davis: Yes, more or less, they were plain clothes police; detectives that we called Sullivan and Crazy Joe. Those were the guys that he was working for.

MOI JR: What was he charged with?

Barry Davis: He was convicted of some alleged murder of some drug dealer. But the actual shooting of the cops, he beat that hands down. You know, he never was convicted of shooting those cops. He won that. That particular trial he won, but they got him on some underhanded, lowdown, out of the public eye conviction on some drug dealer in the Bronx. And that’s what they convicted him on. He got that life sentence on that.

MOI JR: When did the family hear that Larry Davis was assassinated?

Barry Davis: It’s still kind of hard to believe, because it is so fresh going through my head. It has been kind of speedy the last couple of days, but I’m gonna do my best with that one. We got the word Tuesday night that something had happened to him, and Wednesday morning was the conformation that he was killed in Shawanga. You know that there is an ongoing investigation as we speak, so as from what I’m understanding now is that we might have been two days late on the information, with them actually contacting us, that anything that happened to him.

MOI JR: Do we have any details around the assassination?

Barry Davis: Not at this particular time, you know its real sketchy, and we won’t know anything until further inquiry on what’s going on.

MOI JR: Many of us believe that there is a bigger plot at hand, but who is the particular assassin in this case, the one who’s hand was on the weapon?

Barry Davis: Actually I don’t have too much information on this guy, as far as I know his name is Luis Carsadio, but none of that is really sticking with us right now, just cause how everything went down, from what we are understanding right now. We can’t really point no fingers on anything right now.

MOI JR: Chairman Fred, can you give the people a backdrop as to what was happening in the waning years of the Black Power Movement, where drugs were flooded into these neighborhoods, and could you speak about what you know about the case of Larry Davis?

Ch. Fred: First and foremost let me extend my condolences to Brotha Barry and the entire family, and even to the community because it is a lost to the entire community. The deal is that the drug economy that was pushed on the Black and other oppressed communities was and is a “illegal capitalist economy”. And I say a quote on quote illegal capitalist economy, because the fact is that every economy that this government got going; everything from the prison economy to many of the 9 to 5 jobs that go on out here, in fact we got this term that when people have a job we say “you are going to the plantation”, because this whole system is illegitimate and illegal, but in particular it was the drug-imposed economy on our people. A majority of these brothas and sistas, in fact none of them, engaged in the drug trade out of their own volition. I just want to re-iterate what brotha Barry pointed out, that by no means could Larry Davis or any other force in the community be defined as a kingpin because in reality we know who the real gangsters are; the Ronald Reagans, the Bushes, the Rockefellers, and so on and so forth. So again, the way that we must view anybody that engaged in hustling or whatever, is that it is a drug imposed economy by force one way or another or whether it be by the direct, pigs planting stuff on brothas and sistas in the community, or just limiting access to any other ways to resources or means of survival to people in the community and saying that this is your “option”. And a lot of people say that I don’t believe that the government makes people sell drugs, on the contrary they do in one way or the other.

I just want to point out to that Larry Davis, and so many other forces was a victim, and Larry Davis was the average cat but again not the average cat. He was a victim who took the position that he was going to be a fighting back victim. And he is a symbolism of defiance, a symbolism that transcended the borderlines of New York, where people throughout the world felt like he, in laymen’s terms, had the right to liberty and self-determination, and regardless of how many badges, or guns, or how many law books, or Constitutions, or rules that the system may run down to him, this brotha felt that he had a right to life, and he moved in defense of his life, and he took a courageous stance, and stood and still stands as a symbolism of resistance.