July 2015

Despite US taxpayer billions, Afghanistan remains global leader in illicit opium

[Above image: a seedhead of Opium Poppy Papaver somniferum with white latex] Despite $8.2 billion U.S. tax dollars poured into counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan, that country remains the world’s leader in the illicit opium trade. That’s according to a new report […]

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5 Years after BP Oil Spill: Lingering Problems and Scorched Earth

NBC’s Kerry Sanders finds lingering problems and scorched earth five years after BP’s oil spill. [button link=”https://www.today.com/video/has-gulf-recovered-5-years-after-bp-oil-spill-430694979703″]Watch NBC’s BP Oil Spill Report[/button] See some of my previous reporting on BP. The first report is a reminder of how difficult it was

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