Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Week in Review: 

Afghan Drug Trade, 

Police State Business 

and the Bilderberg Conference

Global Research, May 30, 2012

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31143

Afghan Drug Trade: The American sponsored “Tulip Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan (March 2005) was another conspicuous product of the CIA-Pentagon forward strategy doctrine. It came at a time when George W. Bush repeatedly spoke of a “forward strategy of freedom,” and Bush later, when visiting Georgia, endorsed the changeover (more like a bloody coup d’etat than a “revolution”) as an example of “spreading democracy and freedom.”[25] But the new Bakiyev regime, in the words of Columbia University Professor Alexander Cooley, "ran the country like a criminal syndicate.” In particular many observers accused Bakiyev of taking over and running the local drug traffic as a family enterprise. DRUG-FINANCED SALAFI JIHADISM: The Afghan Drug Trade, A Threat to Russia and U.S.-Russian Relations Police State Business: On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the Department of Defense that, among other things, would prescribe the number of military personnel in Afghanistan through 2014. The bill, H.R. 4310 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, allows for $643 billion in spending. WAR & POLICE STATE GOOD FOR BUSINESS: Defense Contractors Look for Return on Investment With National Defense Authorization Act Bilderberg Conference: On the eve of the annual meeting of the notorious Bilderberg Conference, Green Party Congressional Candidate Joseph Diaferia (NY-16) has issued a statement demanding that the 58 year old conference’s meetings, deliberations, and decisions be made public. The Conference, founded in the Netherlands in 1954, is a yearly assemblage of political and business leaders from North America and Western Europe that meets clandestinely.  Politicians and heads of state are also frequently in attendance. BILDERBERG CONFERENCE 2012 The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadmap" to World War III ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER - by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham - 2012-07-14 The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-06-15 ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces... The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing the New World Order - by Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-06-03 SYRIA: Killing Innocent Civilians as part of a US Covert Op. Mobilizing Public Support for a R2P War against Syria - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-05-30 Iran: A Nation That Wants To Live In Peace - by Kourosh Ziabari - 2012-05-30 BILDERBERG CONFAB, Climate Change Alarm, Fake Envionmentalism, Worldwide Social Engineering Chantilly, Virginia, May 31 -June 3 - by Paul Joseph Watson - 2012-05-30 GLOBAL WEB OF PRIVATE POWER: Bilderberg Power Masters meet in the US Chantilly, Virginia, 31 May -June 3 - by Adrian Salbuchi - 2012-05-30 BILDERBERG CONFERENCE 2012 Chantilly, Virginia, May 31, to June 3rd - 2012-05-30 VIDEO: Protests Against Brutal Repression and Draconian Law in Quebec Get all the details on GRTV - by Oscar Leon - 2012-05-30 VIDEO: Radioactive Tuna from Fukushima Found Off California Coast Watch GRTV to find out what's happening - by Jessica Menton - 2012-05-30 VIDEO: US Veterans Toss Medals Back at NATO Find out more about their heroic act on GRTV - 2012-05-30 The Rise of Syriza: Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left - by Michalis Spourdalakis - 2012-05-30 Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans: US Military Presence in the former Yugoslavia - by Rick Rozoff - 2012-05-30 Syria Under Attack by Globalist Death Squad Experts - by Brandon Turbeville - 2012-05-30 When media gives you the answers, you need to ask more questions - 2012-05-30 TERRORISTS PORTRAYED AS "OPPOSITION": BBC Wages Propaganda War on Syria - by Stephen Lendman - 2012-05-30 Reform of the US Monetary System: Message of 12 Year Old Victoria Grant Out of the Mouths of Babes: Twelve-Year-Old Money Reformer Tops a Million Views - by Ellen Brown - 2012-05-30 Atrocities Made to Order: How Wall Street and London Manufacture Tragedy to Sell War and Regime Change. - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-30 What Drives the Fevered Response to the Massacre at Houla? - by Ralph Schoenman - 2012-05-29 PR Roll-out of Orchestrated Regional War: Muslim Brotherhood are Western Proxies Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Joins US-Euro-Israeli Chorus for War in Syria. - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-29 Syriza Program For Greece - 2012-05-29 FAKE JOURNALISM: Slaughter Slant: Houla massacre sparks media blame-game Interview - by Keith Harmon Snow - 2012-05-29 FUKUSHIMA. GLOBAL NUCLEAR RADIATION? California Fish Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation “Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation - by Washington's Blog - 2012-05-29 VIDEO: US Drone Strikes Kill 31 in 72 Hours Learn the latest on GRTV - by Mohammad K. Imani - 2012-05-29 VIDEO: Syria Must Determine Its Own Future See the interview on GRTV - by F. William Engdahl - 2012-05-29 LIES AND FABRICATIONS: The Houla Massacre Full text of Syria's Amb. to the UN Dr Bashar Al-Ja’afari’s Press Conference - 2012-05-29 WAR ON IRAN: US Launches New Computer Virus "Weapon of Mass Destruction" - by Finian Cunningham - 2012-05-29 Unholy Alliance Forming Against Syria Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara, Brussels, Arab puppet regimes, Extremist Wahhabis, Al-Qaeda - by Ismail Salami - 2012-05-29 HARSH NEW SANCTIONS REGIME AGAINST IRAN? Tensions with Iran rise after failed Baghdad talks - by Peter Symonds - 2012-05-29 US threatens military intervention in Syria following Houla massacre - by Chris Marsden - 2012-05-29 Workers Rights in Canada: Workers at CP Get Railroaded - by Andrew Stevens, Doug Nesbitt - 2012-05-29 Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation ONLINE READER - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-05-28 The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected. BREAKING NEWS: Pentagon Plans for Military Strike on Iran Veiled Threats by Defense Secretary Panetta - 2012-05-28 Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria - by Patrick Henningsen - 2012-05-28 SYRIA: Guardian's Houla Massacre Propaganda Stunt Uses "Little Kid". Another case of reckless journalism aimed at selling war - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-28 "This man should be arrested for war crimes," Tony Blair accused of war crimes by protester at Leveson inquiry - 2012-05-28 NARCOTICS: CIA-Pentagon Death Squads and Mexico's 'War on Drugs" Mexico Arrests Three Army Generals - by Tom Burghardt - 2012-05-28 "THE SALVADOR OPTION FOR SYRIA": US-NATO Sponsored Death Squads Integrate "Opposition Forces" - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-05-28 NATO SUPPORTED DEATH SQUADS? Syria Categorically Denies Responsibility of the Syrian Forces for al-Houla Massacre - 2012-05-28 How Osama Re-elects Obama - by Pepe Escobar - 2012-05-28 DEATH SQUADS: UN Security Council issues statement condemning Houla Massacre - 2012-05-28 VIDEO: Diplomat: "American Policies are Dictated by Amazing Ignorance" The West's long record of warmongering discussed on GRTV - by Peter Dale Scott - 2012-05-28 VIDEO: Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians Make a Bang Learn what's happening on the streets of Quebec on GRTV - by Gayane Chichakyan - 2012-05-28 NATO'S "MEDIA WARFARE": Syrian Government Blamed for Atrocities Committed by US Sponsored Deaths Squads Houla, Syria Stunt Proves: Old Tricks are the Best Tricks - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-28 THE IMPACTS OF LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) ON THE ECOSYSTEM: Gas Battle Heats Up In Australia - by Patrick O’Keeffe - 2012-05-28 Government Repression of Quebec Student Movement Sparks Massive Protests - by Roger Annis - 2012-05-28 Language and Empire: My Language, Your Prison - by Dr. Thorsten Pattberg - 2012-05-28 MEDIA DISINFO: BBC criticised for using Iraq 2003 photo to illustrate Syrian massacre BBC acknowledges "Mistake" - 2012-05-28 The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves The Slaves That Time Forgot - by John Martin - 2012-05-28 The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. SYRIA: The West Undermines UN Monitors. Paves the Way for NATO Intervention Western propagandists unanimously defer to "activists" despite hundreds of UN monitors on the ground in Syria. - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-27 Counter Revolution Disguised as Democracy in Egypt - by Shamus Cooke - 2012-05-27 Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars - by David Swanson - 2012-05-27 GLOBAL RECESSION: Mounting signs of deepening global economic slump - by Andre Damon - 2012-05-27 US-NATO MILITARY ENCIRCLEMENT: Missile-Defense: Is it Working? Securing the Peaceful Use of Space for Future Generations - by Bruce Gagnon - 2012-05-27 IS AMERICA GOING TO WAR? Anti-Iranian Propaganda in High Gear - by Stephen Lendman - 2012-05-27 Laying the Foundations for Preemptive Nuclear War Against Iran - by Nile Bowie - 2012-05-27 Upon launching a war against Iran, aggressor nations would likely utilize MEK forces as opposition insurgents and could even recognize the touted “parliament-in-exile”, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as Iran’s legitimate representative. ... THE IRAQ WAR READER: A History of War Crimes and Genocide. The Unleashing of America’s New Global Militarism ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK - by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham - 2012-05-27 The devastation of Iraq, unfettered aggression, crimes against humanity, and plunder and theft of sovereign resources. Israel, US at Loggerheads over Iran Nuclear Issue - by Ismail Salami - 2012-05-26 US-NATO SEEK TO TRIGGER INSTABILITY IN SYRIA: Death Squads Ravage Syrian Town - West Calls For "Action" Reports already conflicting as West attempts again to escalate instability - by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-05-26 MEDIA FABRICATIONS OF THE FACTS: When the Respectable Become Extremists. The Extremists Become Respectable - by Prof. James Petras - 2012-05-26 Death sentences for no other reason than that Tariq Aziz and his colleagues were part of the legitimate government of Iraq Open Letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - by Felicity Arbuthnot - 2012-05-26 Kosovo: NATO’s First “Success Story” Kosovo: Corruption, joblessness considered biggest problems - 2012-05-26 AN ONGOING DISASTER: Libya, Africa and Africom More than 50,000 Deaths - by Dan Glazebrook - 2012-05-26 Eurovision Song Contest: NATO and Western Oil Giants Behind the Stage of Euro Trash Spectacle - by Finian Cunningham - 2012-05-26 A Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite - by Nick Turse - 2012-05-26 Social Justice on Trial in Canada - by Stephen Lendman - 2012-05-26 Can Obama Stop Casino Capitalism? - by Shamus Cooke - 2012-05-26 Washington’s Hypocrisies - by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts - 2012-05-25 Puppet Regimes and Fake Democracy: Syria, Yemen, and America’s Quest for Imperial Dominance - by Eric Draitser - 2012-05-25 US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria - by Chris Marsden - 2012-05-25 VIDEO: The Truth on Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program Get all the information on GRTV - by Nile Bowie - 2012-05-25 American Politics: THE ELECTIONS WON'T BRING PROGRESSIVE CHANGE, SO WHAT CAN? - by Jack A. Smith - 2012-05-25 ORWELLIAN RIOT GEAR: Police “As Far As the Eye Can See” - by Julie Dermansky - 2012-05-25 VICTOR'S JUSTICE: ICC Prosecutor Ocampo Misleads UN Security Council on Saif Al Islam Gaddafi’s Detention - by Ronda Hauben - 2012-05-25 Owner of Pentagon’s Propaganda Firm Admits to Attacks on Journalists The former president said he acted alone, independent of the contractor - by John Glaser - 2012-05-25 QUEBEC PROTEST MOVEMENT: Charest Wants to Transform Quebec Into a “Right-to-Study State” - by Pierre Dubuc - 2012-05-25 VEILED THREATS AGAINST IRAN: Stalemate of Iran Nuclear Talks in Baghdad - by Stephen Lendman - 2012-05-25 SUPERPOWER: Behind the Scenes of America’s National Security Apparatus A not-to-be-missed feature documentary - 2012-05-24 NEW ECONOMIC VISIONS, SUSTAINABLE BANKING: Cooperative Banking in the Aquarian Age - by Ellen Brown - 2012-05-24 VIDEO: Police Captain to be Punished over OWS Support? An inside look at the "police state" on GRTV - by Capt Ray Lews - 2012-05-24