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Will Americans Pay to Bailout Yet Another Foreign Bank … in Afghanistan?
Sep 5th
As we have repeatedly pointed out, American taxpayers have been bailing out foreign banks for years. For example, I noted in May:
As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Federal Reserve might open up its “swap lines” again to bail out the Europeans: More >
$547 Million Can’t Paper Over Failure Of Afghanistan War
Sep 2nd
The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547 million and employing more than 27,000 people. But, as our latest Rethink Afghanistan video shows, all that wasted P.R. money can’t paper over the fact that the Afghanistan War isn’t making us safer, and it’s not worth the cost. More >
Whole Communities Hooked On Heroin In Afghanistan
Jun 22nd
KABUL, Afghanistan — Drug addicts as young as a month old. Mothers who calm their children by blowing opium smoke in their faces. Whole communities hooked on heroin with few opportunities for treatment.
Use of opiates such as heroin and opium has doubled in Afghanistan in the last five years, the U.N. said Monday, as hundreds of thousands of Afghans turn to drugs to escape the misery of poverty and war.
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1,000 AMERICANS DEAD IN AFGHAN WAR
May 18th
He was an irreverent teenager with a pregnant girlfriend when the idea first crossed his mind: Join the Army, raise a family. She had an abortion, but the idea remained. Patrick S. Fitzgibbon, Saint Paddy to his friends, became Private Fitzgibbon. Three months out of basic training, he went to war.
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Afghanistan Is The World’s Top Hashish Producer
Mar 31st
VIENNA — Afghanistan is not only the world’s largest supplier of opium, it also is the global leader in hashish production, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said it estimates that 10,000 to 24,000 hectares (24,700 to 59,300 acres) of cannabis are grown in Afghanistan every year and that this is used to make an estimated 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hashish annually.
