05-03-2015, 09:35 AM
I find it highly relevant that the graph showing the increase in heroin deaths (2002-2013) corresponds almost exactly with the US war in Afghanistan (2001 - 2014), by far the world's largest heroin producer:
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This correlation shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Almost anywhere the US wages war in the world, narcotic trafficking follows. This occurred in the Vietnam war where heroin shipments to the US was the business of the CIA (see Prof. Alfred McCoys seminal book on the subject "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia"). Since that time cocaine followed what became a highly successful and exceptionally profitable CIA business model - and now we're back to heroin in Afghanistan.
For me it's a real pity - and an obvious dereliction of responsibility - that Time Magazine hadn't the balls to take this story in this direction. But then, the US media has well learned many lessons about publishing stories that fly in the face of US government criminality, and don't inform the public or interfere in the US state sponsored narcotics trade. Ask the colleagues of Gary Webb at the San Jose Mercury News who ran to preserve their jobs and ultimately abandoned Webb -- having earlier feted him. These days no one wants to remember that the National Society of Professional Journalists awarded Webb the prestigious Journalist of the Year 1996, for his Dark Alliance series.
So, don't expect the main media to ever tell the full story about the drugs trade again.
This correlation shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Almost anywhere the US wages war in the world, narcotic trafficking follows. This occurred in the Vietnam war where heroin shipments to the US was the business of the CIA (see Prof. Alfred McCoys seminal book on the subject "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia"). Since that time cocaine followed what became a highly successful and exceptionally profitable CIA business model - and now we're back to heroin in Afghanistan.
For me it's a real pity - and an obvious dereliction of responsibility - that Time Magazine hadn't the balls to take this story in this direction. But then, the US media has well learned many lessons about publishing stories that fly in the face of US government criminality, and don't inform the public or interfere in the US state sponsored narcotics trade. Ask the colleagues of Gary Webb at the San Jose Mercury News who ran to preserve their jobs and ultimately abandoned Webb -- having earlier feted him. These days no one wants to remember that the National Society of Professional Journalists awarded Webb the prestigious Journalist of the Year 1996, for his Dark Alliance series.
So, don't expect the main media to ever tell the full story about the drugs trade again.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14