Amy Goodman
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The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe
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12:41Now PlayingIn the 13 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the country's opium production has doubled, now accounting for about 90 percent of the world's supply. To learn more, we are joined by Matthieu Aikins, a Kabulbased journalist whose latest report for Rolling Stone magazine explores Afghanistan's heroin boom. "What has happened in Afghanistan over the last 13 years has been the flourishing of a narcostate that is really without any parallel in history," Aikins says. "This is something that is extraordinary, that is catastrophic, that has grave danger for the future and yet there has been virtually no discussion of in recent years."
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