{"id":140284,"date":"2019-08-12T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=140284"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T10:25:20","slug":"what-war-on-drugs-us-protection-of-afghan-opiates-has-killed-5-2-million-people-since-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/what-war-on-drugs-us-protection-of-afghan-opiates-has-killed-5-2-million-people-since-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"{What War on Drugs?} US Protection of Afghan Opiates Has Killed 5.2 Million People since 9-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

US-imposed Opiate Holocaust
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U.S. Army soldiers walk through a poppy field near the village of Sami Kalache in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar. \u00a9 Bob Strong \/ Reuters. FILE PHOTO<\/p><\/div>\n

11 Aug 2019 – <\/em>Numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts conclude that the US Government was responsible for the 9-11 atrocity (3,000 people killed) with some asserting Israeli and Saudi involvement, but US-beholden Western Mainstream media are united in \u00a0blind belief in the official version of \u00a0mendacious George Bush. However resolutely ignored is the UNODC report that 0.6 million people die from illicit drugs each year with 290,000 such deaths linked to US protection of \u00a0the Occupied Afghanistan opium industry.<\/p>\n

US Government-beholden \u00a0Mainstream media continue to turn reality on its head by ignoring this US-imposed carnage of 290,000 per year x 18 years = 5.2 million opiate drug-related deaths world-wide linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007 [1-7]. Further, Mainstream media ignore the reality that Iran is the world leader in combating this deadly scourge of \u00a0US-protected opiate drugs and instead beat the drums of war against \u00a0Iran by the nuclear terrorist and serial invader countries of the US, Apartheid Israel, the UK and France against \u00a0Iran, a country that has not invaded another country for 1,500 years [2], does not have nuclear weapons, nor any intention of building them, \u00a0and repeatedly declares that it wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Iran accounts for 74% of the world\u2019s opium seizures and 25% of the world\u2019s heroin and morphine seizures. However Iran\u2019s role as a world leader in the War on Drugs and in combating\u00a0 opiate drugs from US-occupied Afghanistan \u00a0comes at a heavy price. Thus Iran has a 900 kilometer border with US-occupied Afghanistan \u00a0that produces about 90% of the world\u2019s opium under US Alliance protection. Iran has spent about $700 million policing its borders against drug movement. \u00a0About 2.5 million Iranians are drug users with opium accounting for 67% of drug use. 4,000 Iranian police have been killed protecting Iran and the World from US-protected opiate smugglers [1-3]. The US Alliance restored the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007 [1-7]. Drought reduced the Afghan share \u00a0of the world opium production in 2018 to 82% [7].<\/p>\n

UNODC (2017): \u201c[Occupied] Afghanistan continues to be at the epicenter of the global illicit opium trade. In 2017 as highlighted in the Afghanistan Opium Survey, opium cultivation reached record levels, rising by 63 per cent compared to 2016. The survey also showed opium production increased by 87 per cent to a record of 9,000 metric tons in 2017 compared to a year earlier. The donor community and other international stakeholders in the country have expressed alarm over these record numbers\u201d (page 32 [1]).<\/p>\n

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UNODC World Drug Report (2019): \u201cGlobally, some 35 million people, up from an earlier estimate of 30.5 million, suffer from drug use disorders and require treatment services. The death toll is also higher: 585,000 people died as a result of drug use in 2017 (page 1 [7])\u2026 Global production of opium was even more affected than was cultivation by the drought in Afghanistan, which produced 82 per cent of the world\u2019s opium in 2018. After an upward trend over the last two decades, global production fell by 25 per cent from 2017 to 2018, to some 7,790 tons. Despite that drop, the amount of opium produced was the third largest amount since UNODC started to systematically monitor opium production in the 1990s (pages 8-5 [7])\u2026 Some 585,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of drug use in 2017. More than half of those deaths [over 293,000] were the result of untreated hepatitis C leading to liver cancer and cirrhosis; almost one third were attributed to drug use disorders [almost 193,000] ]. Most (two thirds) of the deaths attributed to drug use disorders were related to opioid use [129,000] (page 19 [7]). Note \u00a0that synthetic opioids (notably fentanyl and tramadol) are of deadly importance, particularly in wealthy North America.<\/p>\n

UNODC (2019): \u201cThe amount of heroin seized in the Americas has shown a clear upward trend over the last decade. Most of this trafficking takes place within North America, usually from Mexico to the United States, although the heroin found in Canada originates in Afghanistan. Analysis of wholesale seizures of heroin in the United States has shown the increasing predominance of heroin originating in Mexico. Some 80 per cent of the heroin samples analysed in 2016 came from Mexico\u2026 In the case of fentanyl, for example, the bulk of the substance found on the illicit market comes from illicit manufacture, although some small diversions of fentanyl [from medical use] have been reported in the United States. The large market for tramadol for non-medical use in North Africa and the Near and Middle East also seems to be supplied by tramadol specifically manufactured and trafficked for the illegal market, but information remains limited\u2026 Outside North America, where the diversion of pharmaceutical opioids such as codeine and oxycodone from the licit to the illicit market is evident, such diversions are not reported in large quantities. This could be the result of underreporting or the limited capacity of law enforcement authorities to detect diversions\u201d \u00a0(page 18 [7]).<\/p>\n

Global drug deaths totalled about 0.2 million in 2001 and about 0.6 million in 2019, \u00a0and accordingly \u00a0the average of annual drug deaths in this period was 0.4 million per year. \u00a0Assuming that 90% of these drug deaths were opioid-related, \u00a0that of these about 90% were due to opiates (such as opium and \u00a0heroin, as opposed to synthetic opioids such as \u00a0fentanyl and tramadol), and that of these opiate-related deaths 90% were linked to Afghan opium production [7], then the average global death rate from Afghanistan-derived opium in the last 2 decades would have been about 290,000 million deaths per year \u2013 or a total of 5.2 million since 9-11.<\/p>\n

For religious reasons the Taliban banned alcohol, banned smoking for public servants, and after 2000 banned opium production. Thus one can estimate that as of September \u00a02019 \u2013 18 years after the \u00a09-11 atrocity in which 3,000 were killed \u2013 \u00a0about 18 years x 290,000 deaths per year = 5.2 million people would have died due to US restoration of \u00a0the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6%\u00a0 of world market share in 2001 to 90% in 2007.<\/p>\n

In terms of body count one can see that Presidents \u00a0George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been the worst drug pushers in history since Great Britain\u2019s \u00a0Queen Victoria who devastated China with imposed opium \u00a0from British-enslaved India in the 19th century (up to 100 million Chinese died in the Opium Wars and the Tai Ping rebellion [8], with the \u00a0Chinese GDP remaining almost \u00a0the same between 1820 and 1950, and dropping from 30% of world GDP in 1820 to a mere 5% in 1950 ) [9, 10]. The Indians suffered a similar catastrophe under the rapacious British. Thus eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed India of $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938. \u00a0I have \u00a0estimated that if India had remained free with 24% of world GDP as in 1700 (like China) instead of similarly collapsing to 5% by 1950, \u00a0\u00a0then its cumulative GDP would have been $232 trillion greater (1700-2003) and $44 trillion greater (1700-1950). Deprivation kills and it is estimated that 1.8 billion Indians died avoidably from egregious deprivation under the British (1757-1947) [11-17].<\/p>\n

The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist \u00a0(NAZI)-subverted Anglo-American Mainstream media, politician, commentariat and academic presstitutes lie by omission about this horrendous \u00a0Occupied Afghanistan-derived, \u00a0opiate-related carnage of 5.2 million people \u00a0\u2013 a US-imposed Opiate Holocaust that is similar in magnitude to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence or imposed deprivation) [18-20]. \u00a0One can well understand\u00a0 how the Mainstream can \u00a0resolutely ignore the \u00a0\u00a0compelling question of who did the 9-11 atrocity in which 3,000 people were killed, \u00a0and the opinions of numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts who conclude that the US Government \u00a0must have been involved, with some concluding \u00a0that Apartheid Israel and misogynistically Apartheid Saudi Arabia were also involved [21].<\/p>\n

It gets worse. Thus the UNODC reports the annual drug-related deaths of 15-64 year olds in 2017 in the following \u201cWhite\u201d countries of the US Alliance and of the \u00a0Anglosphere \u201c5-Eyes\u201d Intelligence Club, with opioids being the leading cause of death: the US (70,237), Canada (3,998), UK (3,394), \u00a0Australia (1,899), Germany (1,333), France (257), and New Zealand (261). By way of comparison, the figures are as follows for some further entities: the World (585,000), China (25,727), Russia (7,529), Iran (3,021), Vietnam (2,184), Kenya (1,338), Indonesia (447), Myanmar (275), Uzbekhistan (220), Kazakhstan (141), Mexico (113), and Afghanistan (16) (no data for Pakistan and India) [2].<\/p>\n

Applying a correction factor of 0.6 (to obtain average deaths in the last 2 decades) one can estimate total 15-64 year old opioid drug-related deaths \u00a0in the 18 years (September \u00a02001-September 2019) since 9-11 in these US Alliance countries and inescapably linked to the substantial worldwide impact of US-protected \u00a0Occupied Afghanistan opiates (with similarly inescapably connected US synthetic opioids now very being important in the US and Canada): the US (759,000), Canada (43,000), UK (37,000), \u00a0Australia (21,000), Germany (14,000), France (3,000), and New Zealand (3,000). By way of comparison, these UNODC-based \u00a0figures are as follows for some further entities: the World (6,318,000), China (278,000), Russia (81,000), Iran (33,000), Vietnam (24,000), Kenya (14,000), Indonesia (5,000), Myanmar (3,000), Uzbekhistan (2,000), Kazakhstan (2,000), Mexico (1,000), and Afghanistan (170). One notes that the low figures for the major opiate producers (Occupied Afghanistan, Myanmar and Mexico; no data for Colombia) indicate that the impoverished inhabitants in these countries cannot afford to buy the opiates their fellow countrymen produce.<\/p>\n

CIA-linked, \u00a0US-backed opium production shifted from Turkey in the 1960s, and to South East Asia during the Vietnam War years [22-24], \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0before shifting massively to Afghanistan after 9-11 and the war criminal US invasion. \u00a0CIA-linked black profits aside, the strategic motivation was subversion and damage to Russia and China. Starting massively in the Vietnam War years, drugs have devastated African American communities and crippled the democratic prospect of African Americans holding the balance of power in the US (felony laws excluding \u00a0large numbers of African American males from voting assisted this perversion of democracy by the White American Establishment) [25-28].<\/p>\n

Anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone famously stated \u201cGovernment lie\u201d [29, 30], \u00a0and famed American writer Gore Vidal observed: \u201cUnlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying\u201d [31] . Indeed the bigger the atrocity the more assiduously do Anglosphere Mainstream media presstitutes \u00a0lie to the public [32, 33]. Thus patriotic Americans would generally be aware that 3,000 people were killed on 9-11, \u00a0and that about 8,500 US Alliance soldiers have died in the US War on Terror [34]. However hidden from them by mendacious Mainstream media are the following appalling post-9-11 realities: 31 million American preventable deaths from lifestyle or political choices [35-40], \u00a0 7 million Occupied Afghan deaths from violence or deprivation [41, 42] , 4.6 million Iraqi deaths from violence or deprivation, 1990-2011 [41, 43] , \u00a06.3 million World drug-related \u00a0deaths, 5.2 million World opiate drug-related deaths linked to US-protected Afghan opium production in US-occupied Afghanistan, 759,000 US drug-related deaths, and 130,000 US veteran suicides [44]. They are, of course, \u00a0utterly unware of\u00a0 32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government\u2019s 9-11 false flag atrocity [45] \u2013 the bigger the US-imposed atrocity the more assiduously is it white-washed away by US-beholden Mainstream media.<\/p>\n

In my own country, fervently US lackey and resolutely \u201clook-the-other-way\u201d \u00a0Australia, people are aware of 3,000 people being killed on 9-11 and possibly that only about 40 Australian solders have died in the US War on Terror. \u00a0However they are utterly unaware that since 9-11 there have been 5.2 million World opiate drug-related deaths linked to US-protected Afghan opium production in US-occupied Afghanistan, that about 1.5 million Australians have died from \u201clifestyle\u201d or \u201cpolitical choices\u201d [46-50], that 21,000 Australians have died from drug-related causes \u00a0(mostly opiate-related) [2], or that that 1,400 Australian veterans of US Alliance wars have suicided [44].<\/p>\n

Interestingly, in 2008 the Australian PM Kevin Rudd suggested to a \u00a0NATO meeting on Afghanistan \u00a0that the Coalition should destroy the Afghan opium crop that presently kills about 290,000 people each year. His suggestion was, of course, rejected [51], \u00a0notwithstanding the glaring reality that unlike Afghan combatants fighting the US and NATO Alliance, plants are sessile, cannot run away, and accordingly elaborate a huge array of chemical defences (including opiates) [52].<\/p>\n

About 31,000 Americans die gun-related deaths each year and 558,000 will have died thus (from homicide, \u00a0suicide \u00a0or accidents) in the 18 years since 9-11 [35-40]. Notwithstanding this carnage and an almost \u00a0weekly occurrence of mass shootings \u00a0in the US, there is inaction on gun control laws due to the lobbying power of the National \u00a0Rifle Association (NRA). Similarly, there are about 80,000 annual drug deaths in the 5 nations of the US-led, White Anglosphere, \u00a0\u201cFive-eyes club\u201d (the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and 1.4 million will have died thus in the 18 years since 9-11 (most of these deaths \u00a0being opioid-related and inescapably connected \u00a0to the 18 year US Alliance war in Afghanistan). \u00a0However for whatever secret strategic reason, \u00a0the US Alliance will not \u00a0destroy the Afghan opium crops that are killing huge numbers of US Alliance citizens.<\/p>\n

Yet while only about 60 Americans \u00a0have been killed in America since 9-11 by jihadi psychopaths, this tiny \u2013 albeit horrible \u2013 \u00a0death toll provides a continuing \u00a0basis for the US War on Terror \u00a0in which 20 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government\u2019s 9-11 false flag atrocity [45]. It gets worse because the US War on Terror has been associated with a long-term accrual cost of about $6 trillion, a vast sum that could have been used for keeping millions of Americans alive \u00a0at home instead of killing millions of Muslims abroad \u2013 1.7 million Americans die preventably\u00a0 \u00a0each year from \u201clife-style\u201d or \u201cpolitical\u201d choices and 31 million Americans will have died thus in the 18 years since 9-11 [35-40].<\/p>\n

A compelling rationalization of this irrational, US-imposed Orwellian nightmare \u2013 \u201cWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength\u2026 [and] \u00a02 plus 2 does not equal 4\u201d [53] \u2013 \u00a0is that the American Establishment is resolutely committed to mendacity, subversion, violence, war and mass murder to ensure continuing \u00a0American global hegemony for the benefit of the US One Percenters. .Australian writer John Menadue has cogently commented on bullying US attempts to involve Australia (and indeed other US allies) in a Cold War and potentially a hot war against China : \u201cWe [Australians and other US allies] are\u00a0 being softened up again step by step to support the US military and industrial complex that promotes\u00a0 perpetual war. The US is the greatest threat to peace in the world. It is an aggressor across the globe. It is the most violent country\u00a0 both at home and abroad. And people know it. The Pew Research Centre found in 2018 that 45% of people surveyed around the world saw US power and influence as a major threat\u2026 In so far as China is any sort of distant threat it would be much less so if we were not so subservient to the US. The US is determined to make China its enemy. We are cooperating in that process. The US is a very dangerous ally. It is more likely to get us into trouble than out of trouble. We are joined at the hip to the most violent and dangerous country in the world\u201d [54].<\/p>\n

One notes that the \u00a0US subverts all countries [55, 56], has removed 67 national governments (many of them democratically elected) [57], has trashed secular government and modernity in the Muslim world\u00a0 [58], has collaborated with jihadi and non-jihadi terrorists around the world [56, 58], has over 700 military bases in over 70 countries [59], and has invaded 72 countries (52 after WW2), as compared to the English \u00a0193, Australians 85, France 82, Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, \u00a0Apartheid Israel 12, \u00a0China 2 and Iran zero (0) [8, 60-64].<\/p>\n

Final Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN Office on Drugs and \u00a0Crime ( UNODC) \u00a0reports that 0.6 million people die from illicit drugs each year, and it is estimated that of these about \u00a0290,000 deaths per year are linked to US protection of \u00a0the Occupied Afghanistan opium industry. There are 80,000 annual drug deaths in the 5 nations of the US-led, Anglosphere \u00a0\u201cFive-eyes club\u201d (the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and 1.4 million \u00a0will have perished thus in the 18 years since 9-11. However \u00a0Western Mainstream media resolutely ignore this largely US-imposed carnage while fervently \u00a0adhering to the science-incompatible, lying Bush \u201cofficial version\u201d \u00a0of the 9-11 \u00a0atrocity (3,000 people killed, assertedly by technically-illiterate jihadi fanatics \u00a0hiding in Afghan caves).<\/p>\n

What can decent Humanity do in the face of this horrendous US Establishment mendacity and mass murder? Decent Humanity must (a) inform everyone they can about the largely US-imposed Opiate Holocaust , and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those \u00a0people, politicians, parties, corporations and countries involved in this deadly assault on Humanity. The 80,000 annual US drug-related \u00a0deaths are just the tip of a horror in which 1.7 million Americans die preventably each year from \u201clife-style\u201d and \u201cpolitical choice\u201d reasons. Decent, patriotic Americans in particular who love their fellow citizens \u00a0must demand at the very least that those responsible for the deception and mass murder of \u00a0their fellow Americans in the ongoing Opiate Holocaust are removed from public life as utterly unelectable and utterly unfit to hold public office.<\/p>\n

References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Annual Report 2017: https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/AnnualReport\/Annual-Report_2017.pdf<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[2]. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0statistics and data: https:\/\/dataunodc.un.org\/drugs<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[3]. \u201cAfghan Holocaust, \u00a0Afghan Genocide\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/afghanholocaustafghangenocide\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[4]. UNODC World Drug Report 2007: http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/data-and-analysis\/WDR-2007.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[5]. World Drug Report 2009: http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/data-and-analysis\/WDR-2009.html<\/a> \u00a0.<\/p>\n

[6]. World Drug Report , Opium\/heroin market, 2009: http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/wdr\/WDR_2009\/WDR2009_Opium_Heroin_Market.pdf<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[7]. UNODC, Executive Summary, World Drug Report 2019 : https:\/\/wdr.unodc.org\/wdr2019\/prelaunch\/WDR19_Booklet_1_EXECUTIVE_SUMMARY.pdf<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[8]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBody Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950\u201d, that includes a succinct history of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http:\/\/globalbodycount.blogspot.com\/ <\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

[9]. \u201cHistorical GDP of China\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_GDP_of_China<\/a> \u00a0.<\/p>\n

[10]. \u201cAngus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angus_Maddison_statistics_of_the_ten_largest_economies_by_GDP_(PPP)<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[11]. Gideon Polya, \u201cLegacy of colonialism: Britain robbed India of $45 trillion<\/em> & thence 1.8 billion Indians died from deprivation\u201d, Global Research, 19 December 2018: https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/legacy-of-colonialism-britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-and-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation\/5663351<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[12]. \u201cHow much money did Britain take away from India? About $45 trillion in 173 years, says top economist\u201d, Business Today, 19 November 2018: https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/current\/economy-politics\/this-economist-says-britain-took-away-usd-45-trillion-from-india-in-173-years\/story\/292352.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[13]. Gideon Polya, \u201cJane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability\u201d, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008 that \u00a0is now available for free perusal on the web: http:\/\/janeaustenand.blogspot.com\/ <\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

[14]. Gideon Polya, \u201cReview: \u201cInglorious Empire. What the British did to India\u201d by Shashi Tharoor\u201d, Countercurrents, 8 September 2017: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2017\/09\/08\/review-inglorious-empire-what-the-british-did-to-india-by-shashi-tharoor\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[15]. Shashi Tharoor, \u201cInglorious Empire. What the British did to India\u201d, Scribe, 2017.<\/p>\n

[16]. Gideon Polya, \u201cEconomist Mahima Khanna, \u00a0 Cambridge Stevenson Prize And Dire Indian Poverty\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, 20 November, 2011: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya201111.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[17]. Gideon Polya, \u201cAustralia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine\u201d,\u00a0 Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya290911.htm<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

[18]. Martin Gilbert \u201cAtlas of the Holocaust\u201d, Michael Joseph, London, 1982.<\/p>\n

[19]. Martin Gilbert, \u201cJewish History Atlas\u201d, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969.<\/p>\n

[20]. Gideon Polya, \u00a0 \u201cUK Zionist Historian Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) Variously Ignored Or Minimized WW2 Bengali Holocaust\u201d, Countercurrents, 19 February, 2015: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya190215.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[21]. \u201cExperts: US did 9-11\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/expertsusdid911\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[22]. \u201cIllegal drug trade in Turkey\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Turkey<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[23]. \u201cOpium production in Myanmar\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opium_production_in_Myanmar<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[24]. \u201cAllegations of CIA drug trafficking\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[25]. Gideon Polya, \u201cReview: \u201cBecoming\u201d By Michelle Obama \u2013 Mainstream Lying, Genocide Ignoring & \u00a0Holocaust Ignoring\u201d, Countercurrents, 27 June 2019: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2019\/06\/review-becoming-by-michelle-obama-mainstream-lying-genocide-ignoring-holocaust-ignoring<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[26]. Michelle \u00a0Alexander, \u201cThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\u201d, The New Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

[27]. Michelle \u00a0Alexander, \u201cThe war on drugs and the New Jim Crow\u201d, Race, Poverty, Environment, Vol. 17, No. 1 | Spring 2010: http:\/\/reimaginerpe.org\/20years\/alexander <\/a>.<\/p>\n

[28]. Gideon Polya, \u201cTruth & Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Can Overcome Huge Inequities Suffered By African Americans Under American Apartheid\u201d, Countercurrents, 29 September 2014: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya290914.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[29]. I.F. Stone, quoted in \u201cTwo words \u2013 governments lie. Iraqi oil, climate change and Tony Blair\u201d, Media Lens, 22 January 2003: http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=239:two-words-governments-lie-iraq-oil-climate-change-and-tony-blair&catid=17:alerts-2003&Itemid=42<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[30]. I.F. Stone, quoted in Gideon Polya, \u201cIraqi Holocaust\u201d, ConScience, Australasian Science, 2 June 2004: http:\/\/www.shiachat.com\/forum\/index.php?\/topic\/33427-iraqi-holocaust\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[31]. Gore Vidal interviewed by Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show\u201d, 2008: http:\/\/warincontext.org\/2012\/08\/01\/remembering-gore-vidal-change-is-the-nature-of-life-and-its-hope\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[32]. \u201cMainstream media censorship\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammediacensorship\/home<\/a> \u00a0;<\/p>\n

[33]. \u201cMainstream media lying\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammedialying\/<\/a> \u00a0;<\/p>\n

[34]. \u201ci-casualties\u201d: \u00a0http:\/\/icasualties.org\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[35]. Gideon Polya, \u201c14 million Americans will die preventably under a 2-term Trump Administration\u201d, Countercurrents, 22 March 2017: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2017\/03\/over-14-million-americans-will-die-preventably-under-a-2-term-trump-administration<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[36]. Gideon Polya, \u201cMovie review: \u201cWho to Invade Next\u201d by Michael Moore \u2013 Hammer, chisel down for social humanism\u201d, Countercurrents, 23 April 2016: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya230416.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[37].\u00a0 Gideon Polya, \u201cOne million Americans die \u00a0preventably \u00a0annually in USA \u201d, Countercurrents, \u00a018 February 2012: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya180212.htm <\/a>.<\/p>\n

[38]. Gideon Polya, \u201cAmerican Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel To Americans\u201d, Countercurrents, \u00a0<\/strong>27 August, 2013: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya270813.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

[39]. Gideon Polya, \u201cOne Percenter Greed & War Means Over 1.5 Million Americans Die Preventably Each Year\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, 19 September, 2014: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya190914.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[40]. Gideon Polya, \u201cWest Ignores 11 Million Muslim War Deaths & 23 Million Preventable American Deaths Since US Government\u2019s False-flag 9-11 Atrocity\u201d, Countercurrents,<\/strong> 9 September, 2015: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya090915.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

[41]. \u201cMuslim Genocide Muslim Holocaust\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[42]. \u201cAfghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide\u201d: http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/afghanholocaustafghangenocide\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[43]. \u201cIraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide\u201d: http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide\/<\/a> ).<\/p>\n

[44]. Gideon Polya, \u201c Australian state terrorism (4). Jingoistic, US Lackey Australia\u2019s Deadly Betrayal Of Its Traumatized Veterans\u201d, Stop state terrorism, 2018: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/stopstateterrorism\/australian-state-terrorism-4<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[45]. Gideon Polya, \u201cParis Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable\u00a0 Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11\u201d, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya221115.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[46]. Gideon Polya, \u201cAustralian State Terrorism \u2013 \u00a0Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya230914.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[47]. Gideon Polya, \u201cJingoistic, US lackey Australia\u2019s deadly betrayal of its traumatized veterans\u201d, Countercurrents, 18 May 2018: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2018\/05\/26768<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[48]. Gideon Polya, \u201cCoalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull\u201d, Countercurrents<\/strong>, 1 November, 2015: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya011115.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[49]. Gideon Polya, \u201cPro-Apartheid Australia\u2019s New White Australia Policy & compulsory Australian values statement\u201d;, Countercurrents, 12 May 2017: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2017\/05\/12\/pro-apartheid-australias-new-white-australia-policy-compulsory-australian-values-statement\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[50]. Gideon Polya, \u201cOn Anzac Day Australia ignores its complicity in horrendous war crimes & climate crimes\u201d, Countercurrents, 24 April 2017: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2017\/04\/on-anzac-day-australia-ignores-its-complicity-in-horrendous-war-crimes-climate-crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[51]. Louise Yaxley, NATO commits to \u201csubstantial\u201d increase in Afghanistan troops\u201d, ABC News, 4 April 2008: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2008-04-04\/nato-commits-to-substantial-increase-in\/2392926<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[52]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBiochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds\u201d, Taylor & Francis, 2003.<\/p>\n

[53]. George Orwell, \u201cNineteen Eighty-Four\u201d, Secker & Warburg, 1949.<\/p>\n

[54]. John Menadue, \u201cTugging our forelock again and again to our dangerous ally. An update\u201d, John Menadue \u2013 Pearls and irritations\u201d, 9 August 2019: http:\/\/johnmenadue.com\/john-menadue-the-us-alliance-is-more-likely-to-get-us-into-trouble-than-out-of-trouble-an-update\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[55]. John Perkins, \u201cConfessions of an Economic Hit Man\u201d, Ebury Press, 2005.<\/p>\n

[56]. Philip Agee, \u201cInside the Company: CIA Diary\u201d, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1975.<\/p>\n

[57]. John Pilger, \u201cJohn Pilger: the war on Venezuela is built on lies\u201d, Green Left Weekly, 1 March 2019: https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/john-pilger-war-venezuela-built-lies<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[58]. Gideon Polya, \u201cFundamentalist America Has Trashed Secular Governance, Modernity, Democracy, Women\u2019s Rights And Children\u2019s Rights In The Muslim World\u201d, Countercurrents, \u00a021 May, 2015: https:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya210515.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[59]. David Vine, \u201cWhere in the world is the U.S. military?\u201d, Politico, July\/August 2015: https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/06\/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[60]. Gideon Polya, \u201cThe US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 \u2013 Make 4 July Independence From America Day\u201d, Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya050713.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[61]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBritish Have Invaded 193 Countries: \u00a0Make \u00a026 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day\u201d, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya230115.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[62]. Gideon Polya, \u201cAs UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)\u201d, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya090215.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[63]. Gideon Polya, \u201cPresident Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD\u201d, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya150114.htm <\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

[64]. \u201cStop state terrorism\u201d : https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/stopstateterrorism\/<\/a>\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based scientist, writer, artist and humanitarian activist, an academic at La Trobe University for 4 decades, and the author of<\/em> Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds; Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History; and<\/em> Body Count-Global Avoidable Mortality since 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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