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Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd2.1.1.html

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U.S. Military Confidence Sinks on Winning Afghan War, Poll Finds

The military's confidence that it will win the Afghan war is declining, according to a new tracking poll showing only 60 percent of active-duty military personnel believe the U.S. can triumph.

http://snipurl.com/vhmx7



Mexico drug war kills almost 23,000

The report, leaked to media on Tuesday, indicated that security forces were involved in most of the violence.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201041432158263233.html



Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

Charles Bowden

"This thing started in 2006 with the new president, as a statement of his personal power. You know, mano dura-"I'm a strong man." He ripped the mask off Mexico. In other words, he was going to claim he's the big guy. And the mask he ripped off revealed what's really going on in Mexico: mass poverty and social disintegration. Now it's turned into a war by the Mexican government against the Mexican people."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25244.htm



Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?

By Mike Whitney

The militarization of the war on drugs has been a colossal disaster which has accelerated the pace of social disintegration. Mexico is quickly becoming a failed state, and Washington's deeply-flawed Merida Initiative, which provides $1.4 billion in aid to the Calderon administration to intensify military operations, is largely to blame.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25319.htm


From Information Clearing House

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U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
http://act.commondreams.org/go/292?akid=29.124981.MHAcOz&t=28

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Ciudad Juarez: The Global Economy's New Killing Fields

Audio

Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "How is the so-called 'war on drugs' and NAFTA affecting Mexico? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with journalist Charles Bowden, author of 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields.' In 2009, 23,000 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico, 4,300 of them in Ciudad Juarez alone. What explains the rise in drug violence?"

http://www.truthout.org/ciudad-juarez-the-global-economys-new-killing-fields-audio58825



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