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We face a wave of cheap Taliban heroin
Afghanistan currently supplies 90 per cent of the world’s illegal opium — but do not expect a crackdown the new fundamentalist government: it will be ramping up production for much-needed cash, warns STEVEN WALKER
The Taliban are involved in every part of the operation, growing, cultivating and trafficking opium and heroin around the world, as well as “taxing” cultivators and drug labs and charging smugglers fees for shipments
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AS the US and British surrender to the Taliban and scuttle back home with their tails between their legs, they join a long list of the world’s greatest powers whose missions in Afghanistan ended in failure.
Since the days of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, many have sought to control the territory now known as Afghanistan.
The country has long been known as the “graveyard of empires,” evoking its reputation for thwarting the expansionist ambitions of occupiers like imperial Britain.
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