The US Spent $7 Billion to Fight the Drug War in Afghanistan, and Guess What …
The US spent billion to fight the drug war in Afghanistan, and guess what …
The United States is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan having lost its battle against the country's narcotics industry, marking one of the starkest failures of the 2009 strategy the Obama administration pursued in an effort to turn around the war …
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As US withdraws from Afghanistan, poppy trade it spent billions fighting still …
U.S. officials say they have established a competent, well-trained Afghan counternarcotics police agency and a special drug court to discourage the trade. But the long-term sustainability of those efforts is uncertain as the West reassesses spending …
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Program note – Ionisation
For his percussion ensemble work Ionisation (1931), Edgard Varèse uses this scientific principle both as the work's title and as an extra-musical idea that impacts its form. For much of the piece, the composer explores instruments of indefinite pitch …
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