The Afghan trap

(via The Real News Network)

As Obama sends 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, we look back to the roots of the conflict. Ray McGovern says that the USSR was “mousetrapped” into invading Afghanistan by the CIA under both the Carter and Reagan administrations. He adds that the CIA policies of that day are “largely responsible” for the existence of today’s armed fundamentalist groups.

February 22, 2009, 12:46pm

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Secret of Thai success in opium war

High up in the beautiful mountains where Thailand, Burma and Laos meet, the landscape has been transformed in the years since the “Golden Triangle” produced practically all the world’s opium.

February 19, 2009, 5:01pm