The Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd2.1.1.html
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U.S. Military Confidence Sinks on Winning Afghan War, Poll Finds
The military's confidence that it will win the Afghan war is declining, according to a new tracking poll showing only 60 percent of active-duty military personnel believe the U.S. can triumph.
https://snipurl.com/vhmx7
Mexico drug war kills almost 23,000
The report, leaked to media on Tuesday, indicated that security forces were involved in most of the violence.
https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201041432158263233.html
Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Charles Bowden
"This thing started in 2006 with the new president, as a statement of his personal power. You know, mano dura-"I'm a strong man." He ripped the mask off Mexico. In other words, he was going to claim he's the big guy. And the mask he ripped off revealed what's really going on in Mexico: mass poverty and social disintegration. Now it's turned into a war by the Mexican government against the Mexican people."
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25244.htm
Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?
By Mike Whitney
The militarization of the war on drugs has been a colossal disaster which has accelerated the pace of social disintegration. Mexico is quickly becoming a failed state, and Washington's deeply-flawed Merida Initiative, which provides $1.4 billion in aid to the Calderon administration to intensify military operations, is largely to blame.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25319.htm
From Information Clearing House
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U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
https://act.commondreams.org/go/292?akid=29.124981.MHAcOz&t=28
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Ciudad Juarez: The Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Audio
Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "How is the so-called 'war on drugs' and NAFTA affecting Mexico? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with journalist Charles Bowden, author of 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields.' In 2009, 23,000 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico, 4,300 of them in Ciudad Juarez alone. What explains the rise in drug violence?"
https://www.truthout.org/ciudad-juarez-the-global-economys-new-killing-fields-audio58825
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mexico
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=opium
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Dale+Scott
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=scott-pd
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dunya+Cope
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Bowden
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rose+Aguilar
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd2.1.1.html
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U.S. Military Confidence Sinks on Winning Afghan War, Poll Finds
The military's confidence that it will win the Afghan war is declining, according to a new tracking poll showing only 60 percent of active-duty military personnel believe the U.S. can triumph.
https://snipurl.com/vhmx7
Mexico drug war kills almost 23,000
The report, leaked to media on Tuesday, indicated that security forces were involved in most of the violence.
https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201041432158263233.html
Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Charles Bowden
"This thing started in 2006 with the new president, as a statement of his personal power. You know, mano dura-"I'm a strong man." He ripped the mask off Mexico. In other words, he was going to claim he's the big guy. And the mask he ripped off revealed what's really going on in Mexico: mass poverty and social disintegration. Now it's turned into a war by the Mexican government against the Mexican people."
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25244.htm
Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?
By Mike Whitney
The militarization of the war on drugs has been a colossal disaster which has accelerated the pace of social disintegration. Mexico is quickly becoming a failed state, and Washington's deeply-flawed Merida Initiative, which provides $1.4 billion in aid to the Calderon administration to intensify military operations, is largely to blame.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25319.htm
From Information Clearing House
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U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
https://act.commondreams.org/go/292?akid=29.124981.MHAcOz&t=28
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Ciudad Juarez: The Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Audio
Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "How is the so-called 'war on drugs' and NAFTA affecting Mexico? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with journalist Charles Bowden, author of 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields.' In 2009, 23,000 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico, 4,300 of them in Ciudad Juarez alone. What explains the rise in drug violence?"
https://www.truthout.org/ciudad-juarez-the-global-economys-new-killing-fields-audio58825
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mexico
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=opium
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Dale+Scott
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=scott-pd
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dunya+Cope
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Bowden
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rose+Aguilar
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
rudkla - 15. Apr, 08:26
