It’s true. Alfred McCoy wrote a book all about it called “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.”
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totally true. he messed up with their business after all. us gov sent several mercenaries to colombia over the years to make sure they controlled the area. have you read whiteout? I’ll look for mccoy, thanks!
Criminalization of drugs is massively profitable. The wealthiest country in the world has the highest percentage of incarcerated people in the world.
3 million or so, mostly considered non-producers by the capital class, are re-sourced as laborers in the prison system. $75/day/person for the private prisons + essentially free labor allows the ruling class to turn the “unproductive” into profit.
We think we cleared ourselves of slavery, but slavery continues behind walls and behind the protection of the corporations who write self-serving laws.
Ross is not in jail because what he did is immoral. He is in jail because he challenged the profitability of the prison-industrial complex which relies on the criminalization of drugs and the incarceration of millions of our poor
I highly recommend Chris Hedges’ “Wages of Rebellion” if you’re interested in learning more about how the Prison-Industrial Complex is designed to serve the rich at the expense of the poor.
Just tax the hell out of all drugs until it is only affordable to the extremely rich. Illegal drugs just make criminals and cartels rich.
that’s the point. who runs cartels? the ones who keep it illegal. venezuela is the best example. brazil as well.
the mass genocide, you mean. the perfect excuse to keep the monopoly on white collars hands while the slaves get slaughtered on prisons and favelas by themselves — and the cops, the “capitães do mato”. a win win game.
Yes.
Malcom X: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.”
And we’re all irritated at claims that everything is racist. It’s super annoying. But these claims largely dilute the real issue of racism, that we prop up certain classes at the expense of others. It doesn’t matter what we say or tweet. It matters that policies are designed to shift value away from the poor and to the rich.
The government uses constant “wars” to justify its existence and its taxes on the masses.
The War on Drugs is one of the most effective. Keep people in fear, and the government can spend billions on militarizing the police and on limiting access to cash. They can justify tracking and CBDC’s. They can increase their incarcerated population on demand of the prison system by slight alterations of what constitutes a crime.
fear is the social fabric without which governments would have no reason to exist
To push back on the unfair treatment of Ross, and Assange, and thousands of dissidents out there that are being punished for the wealthy’s want of a power monopoly, we have to push back on the etiology of power.
The legal humanization of non-human corporations, which will never work for social good but pursue profit at the expense of social good, opens all areas of independent life to the exploitation of the rich.
Imperialist behavior by the military, which serves resource extraction and the exportation of inflation, funds exploitation at home.
If I could zap every prisoner, I would.
They make 10-25 cents/hour, and pay extravagant prices for basic needs like toothpaste. If they get out, they’re still tied to a system designed to get them right back in.
Slave labor is illegal…unless we write laws to justify it. Then it’s ok.
we could fund rebellions, I like that. as wilson das neves would sing: “on the day people from favelas go down and it's not carnival”.
and @snowden, btw.
we definately can’t rely on those with power. people have to crawl by themselves outta their non-life, their self-imprisonment, out of this hermeticism created in an inorganic manner by the elites — whether the intellectual left or/and financial right. and the fugue state, though we still close our eyes to the possible routes being traced by the people in the middle of our rhetorical, is in full swing.
Of course. Sorry to leave you out of the conversation, #[3]
Profitable for private prisons, the military-industrial complex, big pharma, and alcohol/tobacco companies, but it's a huge net loss for society on the whole.
Absolutely. 3 million people who cannot contribute and who cannot raise their children. They’re in a system designed to keep them in. Most are there for minor offenses and drug charges. Most are victims of a financial system that left them miserable and destitute.
Use those billions to provide training, to create jobs for them, and to provide access to housing and care for their young. It’s a lot cheaper for the government to provide real social services than for it to enrich corporations at our expense.
later on, google “família do norte” + massacre + presídio + boa vista + manaus. as soon as farc fell after that peace deal, PCC came in and took control of north. a carnage. and who used to be PCC’s lawyer? current supreme court judge, alexandre de moraes. politicians are the drug dealers. the rest are pawns.
