MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

NATO has rejected an appeal made by Russia for eradication of opium fields in Afghanistan, arguing that the sole source of income in the region cannot be removed

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
2. Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade
3. Nato forces rely on illegal Afghan militias, CIC report says

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

"According to our indisputable information, the presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the drug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs," IRIB quoted Taheri as saying on Thursday

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
2. NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
3. Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

A lethal combination of rock bottom prices combined with a spike in the potency and availability of heroin on Massachusetts streets has led to a startling increase in the number of heroin-related deaths in recent years.NewsCenter 5’s Bianca de la Garza reported Tuesday that the state’s heroin crisis has spread from inner cities to tranquil suburbs

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
2. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
3. Marines Bypass Taliban Opium Fields in Afghanistan

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

American mercenaries in Pakistan are hundreds of miles away from areas believed to be hiding terrorists, involved in "operations" that can't have anything whatsoever to do with any CIA contract. These mercenaries aren't in Quetta, Waziristan or FATA supporting our troops, they are in Karachi and Islamabad playing with police and government officials and living the life of the fatted calf.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
2. Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade
3. Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington's payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss of All Bosses, have drawn up hit lists of rival, "Taliban" drug lords. "It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol."

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade
2. NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
3. Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

US and NATO forces have and continue to use weapons containing uranium components in Afghanistan, Iraq and other war theatres around the globe.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Depleted Uranium has Destroyed the Genetic Future of Iraq
2. The horrors of exposure to depleted uranium
3. The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

24th Marine Expe­di­tionary Unit moved into south­ern Hel­mand province, the world’s largest opium poppy-growing region, and now find them­selves sur­rounded by green fields of the ille­gal plants that pro­duce the main ingre­di­ent of heroin

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. U.N.: Opium Trade Soars in Afghanistan
2. NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
3. The Deceit of Depleted Uranium use in Afghanistan – Part 1

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

NATO forces in Afghanistan are increasingly reliant on illegal militias, often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses and drug trafficking

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
2. Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world
3. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The opium trade has soared since the U.S.-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, which had eradicated almost all of the country's opium poppies in 2001. Afghan opium cultivation grew 17 percent last year, continuing a six-year expansion of the country's drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92 percent, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released Thursday by the United Nations.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Marines Bypass Taliban Opium Fields in Afghanistan
2. Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
3. Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

"More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991," said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive."

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Depleted Uranium has Destroyed the Genetic Future of Iraq
2. “Falluja Worse Than Hiroshima” because of depleted uranium
3. Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Doctors in Afghanistan say rates of some health problems affecting children have doubled in the last two years. Some scientists say the rise is linked to use of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) by the US-led coalition that invaded the country in 2001.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. The Deceit of Depleted Uranium use in Afghanistan – Part 1
2. Depleted Uranium has Destroyed the Genetic Future of Iraq
3. The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children