How Many Meme Stitches Does It Take to Sew Up a New Narco War?

How Many Meme Stitches Does It Take to Sew Up a New Narco War?
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Drugs, Guns & Nukes: Iran as the New 'Dope, Incorporated'
by Tom Burghardt l

As Israel, the United States and their NATO allies set their sights on the "prize," Iran's vast petrochemical wealth, multiple themes have been floated by corporate media to make the case for war.

Since the 1980s, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and now, according to the Treasury Department, Iran's alleged links to global narcotrafficking networks have all been evoked as clarion calls for "regime change."

It would serve us well however, to explore the recent history of the secret state's reliance upon the illicit trade and how such dalliances advance America's wider geopolitical goals.

Contras and Kosovars: CIA Shadow Wars

In the 1980s, it was the Sandinistas and "Castro-Communism" who did nicely for the Reagan administration. As money and weapons flowed to "our boys," the Contras, they repaid the favor by massacring Nicaraguans by the tens of thousands for Uncle Sam while generously providing cocaine by the ton, to party-happy Americans during that "go-go" decade.

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