How the US Government Created the 'Drug Problem' in the USA

"The bottom line on this whole business has not yet been written."

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
CIA Technical Services Staff director for the MK-ULTRA program

Eighteenth-century German philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel long ago developed, among other things, what he called the principle of "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" to explain the process of deliberately enacted social disorder and change as a road to power. To achieve a desired result, one deliberately creates a situation ("thesis,") devises a "solution," to solve the "problems" created by that situation ("antithesis,") with the final result being the ultimate goal of more power and control ("synthesis.") It is unsurprising Karl Marx and his disciples like Lenin and Trotsky, as well as the US government in its so-called War On Drugs, made this process a keystone of their drive for total control of all individual actions that, in their views, were not, in Mussolini s terms, "inside the state" and thus controllable by the same. READ MORE ...

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Venezuela reacts angrily to US report on cocaine smuggling and corruption

Venezuela said United States must stop publishing “interventionist” reports criticizing the country’s drug interdiction practices in order for relations to improve. A report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office, GAO, amounts to “political blackmail” warned the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs ministry in an e-mailed statement.

GAO detailed the deteriorating relationship between US and Venezuelan drug enforcement agencies and the increased flow of Colombian cocaine across Venezuelan territory.

“Cocaine shipments over Venezuelan borders more than quadrupled between 2004 and 2007 to 260 metric tons. Rampant government corruption and lax enforcement make it easier for smugglers to ship drugs into Venezuela from Colombia and load it onto planes at clandestine air strips or use boats bound for the US, Africa and Europe” indicated the report.

“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela confirms that the normalization of political relations with the United States is subordinated to the cessation of this intolerable practice,” the ministry said Tuesday.

The statement comes weeks after Venezuela and the US agreed to send ambassadors to each others’ capitals for the first time since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expelled the U.S. envoy in Caracas in September.

GAO, which is an investigative arm of US Congress, said that US government officials have seen a 63% increase in suspicious air traffic out of Venezuela from 2004 to 2007, with most flights heading to Hispaniola and Central America. Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office reported that in 2008 it destroyed 325 secret runways.

The GAO report also said that files obtained last year from the computer of a deceased member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC, show that ties between the Colombian guerrilla group and the Venezuelan government are “well established.”

“Venezuela may have provided the FARC with 300 million USD, along with medical care and weapons”, the report said.

“The GAO would make better use of US taxpayer money by concentrating its efforts on dismantling the networks of corruption that make its own country a paradise for drug dealers and gangs” added the ministry.

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