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As reported in May of this year by Robert Sheer in the LA Times, the Bush administration gave the Taliban government $43 million dollars for declaring that opium growing is "against the will of God." http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n922/a09.html Dissent not heard http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0917-01.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0917-06.htm This is from May of this year and is by Chalmers Johnson, the author of Blowback. This is a great book and the title comes from a CIA term that is used to describe the unintended consequences of US action abroad. http://www.commondreams.org/views/050400-103.htm http://www.progressive.org/webex/wx091201.html http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxzinn091401.html http://www.counterpunch.org/saidattacks.html http://www.counterpunch.org/russianwarn.html http://www.counterpunch.org/vesttaliban.html http://www.cursor.org/default.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1547000/1547561.stm President Bush and his senior officials aim to uproot perceived terrorist networks spanning 60 countries in America's war against those who carried out Tuesday's suicide plane attacks in New York and Washington. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0917attacks-hate17.html # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net