Trump spars with Colombia’s president over drugs, cuts U.S. funding for nation +

Trump spars with Colombia’s president over drugs, cuts U.S. funding for nation

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Rant 02-10-2025: Doveryai, No Proveryai

Pascal did it again! He keeps bringing on David Pyne, without disclosing that he’s a member of the hawkish group, Committee on the Present Danger: China. Pyne is far from neutral on the issue of China!

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Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk

Decades of drug war tactics have failed, merely shifting production of fentanyl precursors from China to India, Myanmar, other parts of Southeast Asia, and even Canada. Canadian authorities report “superlabs” are shipping fentanyl to drug dealers in Australia and New Zealand and, to a lesser amount, to the US.

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Fentanyl Trafficking 2023

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The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (PDF)

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Isolationist Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

President-elect Donald Trump threatened on Saturday that the U.S. would reassume control of the Panama Canal if it felt that Panama wasn’t honoring the terms of a 1977 treaty regarding the waterway’s legal status.

Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

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