Taliban Finances
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 20th, 2009 4:38 am by HL
Taliban Finances
The piece this morning on the Taliban’s financial network reminds me of Napoleon’s famous quote, “an army marches on its stomach”. Without the up to $400 million from the opium trade, that is used to pay the fighters, the Taliban…
Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - Taliban - Opium - Asia - Society and Culture
Does Citigroup Need China?
Most of the economists and pundits who could not see an $8 trillion housing bubble are telling us that the United States desperately needs for the Chinese government to keep buying its debt. This crew of failed analysts argues that…
Sponsored Topics: United States - Citigroup - China - U.S. government - Chinese government
Red Scare! Weekly Standard Goes After J Street Attendees ++ TIME’s Tony Karon Reviews Israel’s Terrible Week
I love it. All these years working in the pro-peace, pro-Israel camp and we could never dream of scaring the “Israel firsters” the way J Street has. The bad guys were able to just ignore us. No more. They are…
Sponsored Topics: Middle East - Israel - J Street - Warfare and Conflict - Israel-Palestine
