When commenting on the horrors of ISIS and all of their violent videos promoted around the clock by CNN and other mainstream media outlets, I will often hear people say, ‘This is just pure evil. How could they do such horrible things?’ Far from being some existential mystery, there are answers to these questions, but if you are waiting for your elected representatives or their highly paid media surrogates to provide any, you will be waiting in vain.
This week, yet another clue surfaced when Lebanon’s Daily Star reported:
‘The Internal Security Forces announced Tuesday that an operation to smuggle 3.5 million Captagon pills into Saudi Arabia has been foiled…’
‘Captagon? Never heard of it,’ would be your standard answer in the west.
This story is much deeper than most people realize. Captagon is a highly addictive compound, currently produced in places like Lebanon and Syria and currently expanding to other locations across the region. Here’s where it gets interesting: its proceeds inject hundreds of millions of dollars back into Syria’s black-market. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this is one of the main drivers of this war.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on OCTOBER 14, 2016.
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