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Let's Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists

Mike Gray | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Poppy, Afghanistan, Drug War, Terrorism, Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Drug Policy, World News
Mike Gray

International drug prohibition, headed by the United States, has, in effect, created a global mechanism that is in the process of eating our civilization alive. Fortunately, we can reverse it with a pen stroke.

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The CIA, The Brothers Karzai and Spinning our COIN Wheels

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Durgs, Nato, Coin, Cia, Poppy, Afghanistan, Opium, Andew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Richard Allen Smith

We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Strategic Bombing, Karzai, M1117, Sheriff of Nottingham, Mraps, Poppy, Afghanistan, Robin Hood, President Obama, Yugoslavia, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Iraq War, Afghan Poppy Crop, Humvees, Michael Brogin, Iraq, Opium, Belgrade, World News
Reese Schonfeld

I would like to propose that we consider another strategy -- strategic bombing. Take poppy fields, for example ... For once, we could be using our billion dollar bombers on billion dollar targets.

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Afghanistan Elections Could Hinge On Provincial Poppy Production

The Washington Post | Pamela Constable | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Sell Poppies, Poppy, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Opium, Elections in Afghanistan, Afghan Elections, Poppies, Make Opium, Opium Production, Drug War Afghanistan, Drugs Afghanistan, Opium, National Elections Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, Faizabad, Poppy Fields, World News

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have rise...

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Afghan Poppy Palace Photo Tour

True/Slant | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Poppy Palace, Afghan Poppy Crop, Afghanistan Poppy, Poppy, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Afghan Poppy Palaces, Afghan Corruption, Taliban Afghanistan, Aghanistan Corruption, Afghan Taliban, Poppy Crop, Advocacy, World News

Here in Kabul, the poor live in unimaginably squalid conditions and the rich live like kings. Kings in very ugly castles. We call them Poppy Palaces ...

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Rangoon Raids Yield 28 Kilograms Of Heroin

Irrawaddy.org | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Poppy, Myanmar, Drug Raid, Burma, Rangoon, Kota Tegap, Drugs, Heroin, Golden Triangle, Narcotics, Opium, Asia, World News

Police and customs officers in Rangoon have confirmed that a special anti-narcotics task force has seized substantial quantities of heroin in a series...

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A Salute to Those Who Have Fought For Us

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Wire, France, Alan Seeger, Flanders Fields, John McCrae, World War I, Memorial Day, Poppy, Belgium, Veterans Day, Willy McBride, Tim Sullivan, Armistice, Waterloo, Kaiser, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

Our honoring of Veterans Day suffers by comparison with Memorial Day, which has a similar purpose and is more widely observed as a holiday because it starts the U.S. summer season.

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