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America blames China for its opioid epidemic

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The United States of Amnesia is at it again. Blasting China with a whole new round of sanctions and indictments, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claim on Tuesday, that China is responsible for the fentanyl crisis, diverts from the opioid epidemic caused by American companies Johnson & Johnson and others, “profiting from a flood of addictive painkillers that devastated communities”. As a result, J&J faced a $26 Billion lawsuit in 2021 but we’re encouraged to forget this as the social and health damage deepens.

From US doctors to China, the blame game goes on while the conditions of poverty and despair that breeds drug addiction are allowed to continue.

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The Steampunk Opium Wars: Lord Palmerston declares war on China video

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Egged on by Sir Jardine Matheson, Lord Palmerston declares war on China when Lin Zexu destroys the British opium stocks. Poem “After Kipling: Apology for the First Opium War” written and performed by John Crow. The Steampunk Opium Wars is written and narrated by Anna Chen. With Paul Anderson, Louise Whittle, Hugo Trebels, Neil Hornick,

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HSBC’s record drugs money laundering fine: from Opium Wars to Mexican drug lords

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Ain’t life funny? The HSBC started off in the 19th century opium wars, servicing the British narcocapitalists, and here they are still at it, laundering drugs money for Mexican drugs lords. You’d think, given the severity of US drugs laws and how they slap every spliffer and cannabis-dealing youth into jail — especially if they’re

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Alice In Wonderland review: Disney and the Opium Wars

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Rather belatedly, I’m posting a review of Tim Burton’s 3D movie adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. Being a sucker for the technology (especially now that you get proper stylish Rayban-style spectacles and not the horrid — if nostalgic — cardboard face-wear of old), I had gone to see Alice the first week it opened at

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Gordon Brown signs Briton’s death warrant in China

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Being implacably opposed to the death penalty, I hope that China will put to one side the dishonest, unprincipled, British government and media dissembling over Copenhagen and show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, the British man caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin. It now appears he was mentally ill and deserving of clemency. In the face

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