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The CIA, Drug Trafficking and American Politics: The Political Economy of War
The CIA supported various Afghan rebel commanders, such as Mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who were fighting against the government of Afghanistan and the forces of the Soviet Union which were its supporters. Historian Alfred W. McCoy stated that: “In most cases, the CIA’s role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking … [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA’s role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability.” In order to provide covert funds for…
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Political Economy as a Student’s Required Academic Discipline.
Article by Wheeler Randy A student is required to take a course in high school or college that is dedicated to political economy. Political economy narrates a person about many countries’ trade unions and their cooperation with each other. Trade may even become a subject of secret service agencies’ interest at some point. An example to this would be U.S. officials’ blame for the attempt to dissolve the trade contract with China using subtle means of manipulation of the world’s economy. The following activity is best presented in the film ‘Spy game’ starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. Political economy also…