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  • Duterte divorces USA while killing drug users in the streets

    Duterte divorces USA while killing drug users in the streets

    Duterte at the Philippines-China Trade Investment Forum in Beijing
    Duterte at the Philippines-China Trade Investment Forum in Beijing

    Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced in Beijing this week a new strategic relationship with China and an end to the close military ties with the USA.

    “America has lost now. There are three of us against the world, China, Philippines and Russia. It is the only way”, he told an international trade conference.

    Meanwhile in the Philippines police have killed over 3,000 drug users and dealers in the 100 days since he came to power, publicly displaying the bodies with signs warning people not to deal in drugs. He criticises the USA for hypocricy in the war on drugs.

    During the presidential election campaign Duterte promised to fill the Bay of Manila with the corpses of 100,000 criminals should he come to power.

    Rodrigo Duterte interview: Death, drugs and diplomacy

    “We have three million drug addicts, and it’s growing. So if we do not interdict this problem, the next generation will be having a serious problem. If you destroy our young children, I will kill you. That is a very correct statement. There is nothing wrong in trying to preserve the interest of the next generation.”

    http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2016/10/exclusive-rodrigo-duterte-war-drugs-161015100325799.html

     

    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/09/philippines-duterte-killer-drug-war-160905094258461.html

     

    MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte’s shock “separation” from the United States has thrown Philippine foreign policy into confusion, with the Americans saying they are baffled and some of his top aides contradicting him.

     

    http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/afp/2016/10/22/481745/Duterte-divorces.htm

    America has lost now. I have realigned myself in your ideological flow, and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world, China, Philippines and Russia. It is the only way.”

    http://www.voanews.com/a/duterte-declares-philippine-separation-from-us/3559129.html

    Will “They” Really Try to Kill President Duterte?

    The hitless of the Empire reads like a catalogue of illustrious world leaders: from Patrice Lumumba (Zaire), Mohammad Mosaddegh (Iran), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Sukarno (Indonesia), Juvénal Habyarimana (Rwanda), Salvador Allende (Chile) to Muammar Gaddafi (Libya), Al-Basheer (Sudan) and Fidel Castro (Cuba), to name just a few. Some were directly assassinated; others were ‘only’ toppled, while only a handful of ‘marked’ leaders actually managed to survive and to stay in power. There were several grave crimes committed by almost all of them include: defending the vital interests of their nations and people, refusing to allow the unbridled plunder of natural resources by multinational corporations, and standing against the principles of imperialism. Simple criticism of the Empire has also been often punishable by death.

    http://journal-neo.org/2016/10/17/will-they-really-try-to-kill-president-duterte/

  • Heroin floods USA post-Taliban

    Heroin floods USA post-Taliban

    US-occupied Afghanistan provide six sevenths of the world's heroin
    US-occupied Afghanistan provide six sevenths of the world’s heroin

    Seven thousand deaths from heroin in the USA during 2014 can be directly traced to opium sourced from US-occupied Afghanistan claims a report by NY Congressional Candidate Will Edstrom published last week.

    Six sevenths or Eighty Five percent of the world’s heroin, 6,400 tonnes, now comes from US-held Afghanistan. Ten thousand of the 4.5million US heroin users die every year.

    The Taliban banned opium production outright in 2000. Since 2001, the area under opium cultivation has increased from less than ten thousand hectares to over 200,000.

    Congress’s Take On The Heroin Epidemic

    Members of Congress and candidates comment on the Heroin epidemic in the US.

    http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/08/congresss-take-on-the-heroin-epidemic/

    A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares in 2001 (when the War in Afghanistan began) to 224,000 hectares currently. The Taliban outlawed opium in Afghanistan in 2000 and within a year it was all but gone, demonstrating that Afghan opium can be eradicated quickly for any administration that chooses to do so. Afghanistan is, by far, the number one source globally of both opium and heroin. In 2014, 7,554 tons of raw opium were produced worldwide, including 6,400 tons in US-occupied Afghanistan and 173 tons from Mexico and Colombia. US-occupied Afghanistan produces 85% of the world’s heroin. Mexico and Colombia produce only 2%.