{"id":91135,"date":"2013-11-14T02:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/afghanistan-opium-crops-at-all-time-high-despite-western-intervention\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:11:30","slug":"afghanistan-opium-crops-at-all-time-high-despite-western-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/afghanistan-opium-crops-at-all-time-high-despite-western-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Opium Crops at All-Time High Despite Western Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opium trade is alive and well in Afghanistan, despite the efforts of Western nations to control it \u2014 At least according to NPR. I&#8217;m not especially convinced that the United States is doing much to control opium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/10\/14066.html\" target=\"_blank\">and I don&#8217;t think it wants to. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/11\/13\/244983523\/despite-western-efforts-afghan-opium-crop-hits-record-high?ft=1&amp;f=1001\" target=\"_blank\">Via NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The amount of land under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at a record high, released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Opium production in 2013, meanwhile, rose 49 percent over 2012, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey. The country is the world&#8217;s No. 1 poppy producer.<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s findings come as Western troops prepare to leave Afghanistan in 2014 more than a decade after they deposed the Taliban and attempted to bring stability to the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/11\/13\/244983523\/despite-western-efforts-afghan-opium-crop-hits-record-high?ft=1&amp;f=1001\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opium trade is alive and well in Afghanistan, despite the efforts of Western nations to control it \u2014 At least according to NPR. I&#8217;m not especially convinced that the United States is doing much to control opium, and I don&#8217;t think it wants to. Via NPR: The amount of land under opium poppy cultivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":91136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}