Wednesday, July 21, 2010

All in the "Family." Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites

by Tom Burghardt from Antifascist Calling. The author provides more evidence that the lines separating the criminal drug rackets, the large banking institutions, and US government black operations are very thin ones.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODOC) state in their 2010 Annual Report that "money-laundering is the method by which criminals disguise the illegal origins of their wealth and protect their asset bases in order to avoid suspicion of law enforcement and to prevent leaving a trail of incriminating evidence," and that financial institutions, particularly U.S. and European banks are key to efforts to choke-off illicit profits from the grisly trade.

The trouble is these institutions, along with U.S. intelligence agencies, are the problem.