Roman Law Roman Law begins with the concept that all men are beasts: “The law of nature is that law which nature teaches to all animals. For this law does not belong exclusively to the human race, but belongs to all animals, whether of the earth, the air, or the water.” (The Institutes; Of Persons). Under Roman Law, there is no distinction made ...
The story of the Britain’s Opium Wars against China is well known. What is less well known, except by some experts, is the open British control of world narcotics traffic all the way up until World War II, and that, today, it is the unregulated financial institutions in British Crown colonies, such as the Caymen Islands, which continue to finance ...
Narcotics trafficking, like slavery, is a necessary activity of the modern Anglo-Dutch Empire. That Empire has played the controlling role in global drug trafficking since its inception, and it continues to play that role today. On the one hand, it is a business which makes hundreds of billions of dollars. On the other hand, it is an indispensab...
As soon as the British East India Company consolidated its rule over the Indian province of Bengal in 1757, they began turning whole sections of the countryside into opium plantations. This involved taking land out of food production, with the murderous results discussed above. The British were not the first to do this; the Dutch had begun even ...
How did the British defend these actions? Simple, they didn’t. Their claim was that the wars against China had nothing to do with drugs(!!!), but that the causus belli of the war – which justified the English military onslaught – were the Chinese protectionist measures which were injurious to the British democratic policies of Free Trade—the exac...
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