Just like Bush Snr’s ‘War on Drugs’, the invasion of Afghanistan has provided the drugs trade with a new lease of life. Now the opium trade, which was effectively broken by the Taliban, is flourishing like never before
In the weeks after 9/11, Wesley Clarke recalls being told at the Pentagon how America would respond. A ‘senior general’ told him: ‘We’re going to take out seven countries in five years.’ Iraq and Syria were at the top of a list, which ended with Iran
It seems like history is repeating itself in Afghanistan and in more ways than one
Afghanistan has just seen its biggest opium harvest ever. Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, reports on a web of intrigue involving, President Putin’s friends, Alexander Litvinenko and the production of heroin on an industrial scale
Indications that a crackdown, ostensibly to fight “terror” and help “stabilise” the situation in Iraq, may be imminent
A survivor of the 7/7 London bombings, Daniel Obachike speaks about how police appeared to be very selective with evidence and ignored his testimony
Bomber was being tracked just months before the 7/7 attacks although Blair has ruled out a public inquiry (probably because it would even more “oversights” by the security services. Ed)
The Blair government has become adept at burying the truth, writes the former British envoy to Uzbekistan. As a rule of thumb, if Blair’s spin doctors want you to know it, it probably isn’t true
Amy Goodman talks to Craig Murray (left), the former British consul to Uzbekistan, on why he posted classified memos on his website and openly criticised US and British government support of torture by the Uzbek regime
A former British Ambassador and Head of the Foreign Office’s Marritime Section explains how
We are not being told everything about the London terror attacks and, just like 9/11, contradictions and anomalies are appearing in the official account. We look back and try to fathom what really happened?
First hand witness testimony tells of strange occurrences in bombing aftermath