Recent Posts Tagged With 'opium'

• UNODC mugged by reality

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 06:02 in afghanistan, antonio costa, opium, unodc

  Sanho Tree, writing below for the Transform blog, responds to the Guardian report last week that 'UN wants 'flood of drugs' in Afghanistan to devalue opium':United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a "flood of drugs" in the co...

• Ministry of Defence propaganda and the Afghan drug war

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 12:17 in mod, afghanistan, propaganda, heroin, opium, badscience, unodc

  The media today is full of reports about a massive military operation in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, codenamed DIESEL. Closer examination reveals reporting of the operation to have been dramatically propagandized by the Ministry of Defense, ...

• Afghan Opium and the Emperor’s New Clothes

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 10:12 in afghanistan, antonio costa, taleban, opium, foreign office, unodc, chatham house, rammell

  Last week the UNODC launched its latest report on opium production in Afghanistan. Steve Rolles and I attended the presentation of the report at Chatham House by Antonio Maria Costa Executive Director UNODC and Bill Rammell, Minister of State Foreig...

• Images from the Afghan drug war

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 10:07 in afghanistan, war on drugs, heroin, drug war, opium

  There is a powerful set of images by the brilliant photographer Aaron Huey taken the front line of the war on drugs; Afghanistan. It not only shows the the futile eradication efforts and the very real conflict the drug war involves - with victims on ...

• Mark Easton - The mystery of the missing opium

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 05:51 in afghanistan, opium, unodc, mark easton

  "It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared."Mark Easton has an excellent blog on an issu...

• UK produces more opium than 24 of Afghanistan's 35 provinces

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 05:09 in conservatives, afghanistan, daily mail, opium

  According to Dr. Liam Fox, Shadow Defence Secretary, in 2007 the UK was the 11th largest producer of opium poppy.Fox, writing a blog on the CentreRight website says,'... figures recently released by the Government show that when the United Kingdom is...

• The opium war's front line: Afghanistan, Iran and Hampshire

  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 08:58 in afghanistan, un, heroin, antonio costa, opium, unodc

  There has been a series of opium stories in the last couple of days that highlight some of the big questions in drug policy that the media and politicians rarely if ever want to mention, let alone explore in a rational and intelligent way. First up ...

• World Bank/DFID: eradication risks increasing Afghan instability

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 06:41 in world bank, drug war, opium, drugs and conflict

  A new report, jointly produced by the World Bank and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) stresses that a poppy eradication strategy in Afghanistan risks increasing support for anti-government forces. Published yesterday the repo...