KABUL — The Taliban make Afghanistan's opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the ins...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: "Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work."
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Failed policies in the Middle East could be reshaped by learning from those who have managed to do surprisingly well for themselves: the Israelis, the Iranians and the Afghan drug lords.
Yahoo! News | VIVIENNE WALT | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Could Afghanistan's opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has...
The Washington Post | Pamela Constable | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have rise...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
With the Mexican drug war completely out of control, Afghanistan supplying 90% of the world's opium, and our economy in collapse, the media has finally begun to seriously question our approach.
Johann Hari | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
We now have a chance to bankrupt the Mexican cartels, the Taliban, the Bloods and the Crips, and the gangs that are shooting their way across world -- before they cause the collapse of two countries.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 01.21.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan and coalition troops found and destroyed 2.5 tons of marijuana in an abandoned school in southern Afghanistan, while...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In the years since the initial invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the nation's attention has steadily turned away from a mission that the Bush administr...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 01.12.2010 | World