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The US is dramatically escalating the drug war in Colombia. The billion dollar plus increase in aid will mostly go to the security forces who are implicated in cocaine trafficking and human rights violations. Elite US Special Forces are in Colombia training the military in counterinsurgency tactics. The militarisation of the decades long civil conflict will only further destabilise the country and the Andean region. While Colombia gets chemical weapons and helicopter gunships, US drug prevention and rehab programs are starved for funds.
Noam Chomsky, MIT professor, is known the world over for his trenchant critiques of US foreign policy and the media. For many he is a symbol of resistance to the depredations of private and state power. The Guardian calls him, "One of the radical heroes of our age." He is the author of Power and Terror, Middle East Illusion and Hegemony or Survival." He's done a series of interview books with David Barsamian including The Common Good and Propaganda and the Public Mind.
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