From
Opium War to Liberation
by Israel Epstein
The drug industry is major worldwide conglomerate
of intertwined business interests. The information in this book is integral
to an accurate understanding of what is going on today under the names
of "big business", "finance" and "monopolistic capitalism". Too often the
interests of "business" supersede the interests of the public. This is
true in many aspects of the pharmaceutical industry including psychiatry,
cancer, AIDs and more. It was also true when the East India Company developed
the first widespread militaristic monopoly on the opium production of India
and forcefully exported it for many years, at incredible profits, to China.
The power and expansion of Great Britain could not have occurred without
the incredible profits earned off the the suffering of the addicted opium
population of China. The fact that a major world power funded and directed
drug production and use, under force, should be understood not as a unique
and rare instance of historical international business immorality, but
as a par-for-the-course attitude of modern mega-corporate capitalism. Upper-crust,
"decent", and "honourable" folks spent much time and energy ensuring an
entire country was addicted to opium. The CIA has protected and assisted
cocaine and heroin production for many years. There IS something going
on here, and it is not what the media would have us believe.
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Book Description
The purpose of this concise treatment was
never to give a full account of China's great change - crucial for herself
and - since she is a fifth of manking - for the world. The aim was to speak
to western-educated people (not just those of western origin but many on
all continents schooled under colonial influence) - to help them to "shift
gears" from what they had been taught as history to things they had not
been taught or led to dismiss as marginal.
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