Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson – review
This life of Thomas De Quincey is as dizzyingly complex and passionate as its subject Thomas de Quincey: ‘His genius was to take something sordidly familiar and make it arresting … Continue reading
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson – review
A seamless, stirring, sublime biography, which takes you to the heart, or rather the head, of the opium-eater, says Dasiy Dunn DASIY DUNN Standard, Thursday 31 March 2016 English … Continue reading
Banking and the World’s Biggest Business
Assembled as one picture, the hard evidence available from the Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement bodies leaves only one possible conclusion: The drug “industry” is run as a … Continue reading
PART II How the Drug Empire Works
Introduction The basis of this investigation In the following pages we will take the reader from the opium-growing mountains of the Far East’s Golden Triangle, to the offices of opium … Continue reading
Nixon’s war on drugs
It is not widely known that President Nixon was a casualty in the war against Britain’s drug invasion of the United States. Had Nixon not taken up the most basic … Continue reading
Mounting the drug invasion
The United States’ fourteen-year experiment in Prohibition accomplished precisely what its British framers had intended. Ralph Salerno, an internationally recognized authority and historian on organized crime, a law enforcement consultant … Continue reading
3 – Britain’s “Noble Experiment”
In the years 1919 and 1920, two events of critical strategic importance for Britain’s opium war against the United States occurred. First, the Royal Institute of International Affairs was founded. … Continue reading
The British Brahmins in the U.S.
The nature of the London-centered cycle of international trade from cotton to opium further cultivated a group of British financial allies in the United States. Some of these allies are … Continue reading
The Chinese entry
Opium and morphine, in the early days of the mob, were not illegal drugs; heroin only came into circulation at the turn of the century and was not made illegal … Continue reading
2 – Palmerston’s Fifth Column,USA
The assassination bureau Narcotics traffic was the business of organized crime during the 19th century no less than in the 20th, and Britain’s Opium War cabinet spun out a web … Continue reading
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