Why the People’s Republic of China Is Not Responsible for America’s Drug Problem
The FBN Myth On the “War on Drugs” Crusade
Sep 25, 2024
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What is linked in the first line above is actually a collection of articles by Cynthia Chung, living mostly AFAIK, in Montreal and married to Matthew Ehret.
The FBN Myth On the “War on Drugs” Crusade [Find the text at left and below re Federal Bureau of Narcotics about 20% down the file linked in the first line above.]
“What cannot now be denied is that US intelligence agencies arranged for the release from prison of the world’s preeminent drug lord [Lucky Luciano], allowed him to rebuild his narcotics empire, watched the flow of drugs into the largely black ghettoes of New York and Washington, D.C., escalate and then lied about what they had done. This founding saga of the relationship between American spies and gangsters set patterns that would be replicated from Laos and Burma to Marseilles and Panama.”
- Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
The beginning of what would be the modern-day opioid pushers would come out of the American presence in Asia during WWII. Recall that the original opioid pushers in the 19th century and earlier were the British East India Company, who destroyed India’s textiles so they could not compete with Britain’s cotton industry and turned India into a British colony and an opioid producer (this is also what justified the cotton slave plantations in the American South). This was followed by Britain claiming
1. its right to forcefully sell said opium to China as per their “free market” rules and
2. fought [fight] two Opium Wars with China, taking possession of Hong Kong and Shanghai in the process.
(Hence the opium dealing bank HSBC, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, being a City of London bank).
To quickly pick out the real central essence whence this multicountry impossible problem sprang from, find the following text at maybe 80% of the way down what I'm forwarding.
Cynthia Chung's carefully edited and footnoted text is all around you now. And you will find excellent documentation of how this drug problem really came about.
The FBN Myth On the “War on Drugs” Crusade
“What cannot now be denied is that US intelligence agencies arranged for the release from prison of the world’s preeminent drug lord [Lucky Luciano], allowed him to rebuild his narcotics empire, watched the flow of drugs into the largely black ghettoes of New York and Washington, D.C., escalated and then lied about what they had done. This founding saga of the relationship between American spies and gangsters set patterns that would be replicated from Laos and Burma to Marseilles and Panama.”
- Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
-Fred