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The truth is that the truth is irrelevant to the ruling elites. The "War on Drugs" was Nixon's plan to militarize the police and disenfranchise the underclass. It never mattered that U.S. foreign policy favored major cartels, like the one run by Chiang Kai-Shek in partnership with the C.I.A.'s "Air America," which addicted American servicemen to heroin in Vietnam, or that the huge profits of drug dealing flowed through and propped up the American banking system. The Reagan Administration diverted the profits from drugs into their illegal support for the Contras in Nicaragua, and fueled the crack cocaine epidemic in places like South Central Los Angeles. The largest current recipient of U.S. aid in the Western Hemisphere is Colombia, a vicious human rights abuser, and home to some of the world's most notorious drug cartels. Under Bill Clinton, an expanded "no tolerance" for drugs policy facilitated the rise of the privatized prison-industrial complex, a major corporate contributor to the on-going presidential campaign of Hillary. Yet during this same period, we've witnessed an explosion in the public consumption of pharmaceuticals. Half the commercials on the nightly network news shows are for drugs, often advertised to treat "diseases" we never knew existed, and inevitably accompanied by a chilling list of side effects and interactions that are much worse than the initial complaint. Got a problem, real or imaginary? Pop a pill. Little wonder that there's a pharmacy on every other block in America. In the case of the never-ending "global war on terror," the tragic events of 9/11 conveniently provided the elites with the much sought-after pretext for expanding the military budget after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to ensure that trillions of taxpayer dollars would continue to flow uninterrupted into the coffers of politically well-connected "defense" contractors like Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, Northrup-Grumman, Boeing, General Electric, Raytheon, United Technologies, Bechtel, and General Dynamics. There would never be, as a snarling George Herbert Walker Bush informed us in 1991, any "peace dividend." When Karl Rove said that Cheney-Bush and company would create their own reality, regardless of the facts, he wasn't just bragging. Of course, these self-styled "masters of the universe" are completely insulated from any dire consequences for their sociopathic decisions, which have not only made a slaughterhouse out of much of the undeveloped world, but also threatens to bankrupt our increasingly contentious republic.