EPISODE · May 5, 2026 · 1H 36M
Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 5: Who is really causing our Drug epidemic?
from Badlands Media · host Badlands Media
Spoiler: it's not China. Matt Ehret traces North America's drug crisis from the British Empire's original opium wars through the CIA's Air America heroin pipeline, Afghan poppy fields guarded by Western troops, and the Sackler family's OxyContin empire. He shows how Afghan opium production exploded the moment US forces arrived in 2001 and collapsed again the moment the Taliban returned in 2023, a fact the Pentagon's trillion-dollar budget apparently could not replicate. He also names the actual players fueling today's fentanyl crisis: Khalistani organized crime networks in British Columbia, money-laundering banks including TD Bank and a bank belonging to the British Royal Family, and a pharmaceutical company that paid a fine smaller than its profits. If China were really running a reverse opium war, they're doing a terrible job. Everyone else in this story seems far more competent.
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