– By Jack Blood (www.jackblood.com)

I just about fell out of my sneakers when I heard some goon on MSNBC suggest that the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan was due to funding coming from bumper opium crops. The very crops the Taliban nearly eradicated when in power before 9.11.01. Of course many believe that one reason to expel the Taliban in the first place was because they were cutting off supply of the drug, a drug that has a long history connected with the CIA

I am no Taliban sympathizer, but the fact remains; after the Taliban were excused from power in Afghanistan, record poppy harvests begin to roll in. Some would blame this on the “Warlords” who are allegedly funding their former arch enemies the Taliban… but if you believe these regional governors work as independents, free from outside tax, and able to move and refine these huge quantaties of smack – well I have a cliché bridge to sell you.

What we already know through the foreign un-embedded press. That is the “Taliban” who were honored guests of George Bush Jr. at his Crawford Texas ranch in early 2001, were flown out on C-130’s into safe havens in Pakistan. As we speak the former spokesman for the Taliban is attending, you guessed it, Yale University on a scholarship studying political science. The Bush Administration is also locked into business deals with the UAE, who openly support the Taliban… I am sure that you remember the deals to have them secure our Ports that blew up in Ws face.

The Phony war on drugs:

A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is a copy of that statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Yet another stands in front of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to prep school

Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the "Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by George Washington, it was successful throughout the Revolutionary War. Nathan was the only operative to be ferreted out by the British, and after speaking his famous regrets, he was hanged in 1776. Ever since the founding of the Republic, the relationship between Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has been unique.

In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the purpose of acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China. Russell and Company bought out the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and moved the primary center of American opium smuggling to Connecticut. Many of the great American and European fortunes were built on the "China"(opium) trade.

One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was Warren Delano, Jr., grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other Russell partners included John Cleve Green (who financed Princeton), Abiel Low (who financed construction of Columbia), Joseph Coolidge and the Perkins, Sturgis and Forbes families. (Coolidge's son organized the United Fruit Company, and his grandson, Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the Council on Foreign Relations.)

William Huntington Russell ('33), Samuel's cousin, studied in Germany from 1831-32. Germany was a hotbed of new ideas. The "scientific method" was being applied to all forms of human endeavor. Prussia, which blamed the defeat of its forces by Napoleon in 1806 on soldiers only thinking about themselves in the stress of battle, took the principles set forth by John Locke and Jean Rosseau and created a new educational system. Johan Fitche, in his "Address to the German People," declared that the children would be taken over by the State and told what to think and how to think it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at the University Of Berlin in 1817, and was a professor there until his death in 1831. Hegel was the culmination of the German idealistic philosophy school of Immanuel Kant.

It is from this that the Hegelian Dialectic spawns: Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis, or as it is better know today: Problem, Reaction, Solution.