Afghanistan's transformation into a preeminent narco-state owes a significant debt to Washington, writes Alan McLeod. Now, with a heroin shortage threatening to increase fentanyl abuse, the U.S. faces possible blowback.
By Alan MacLeod
MintPress News
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A gunman opened fire on Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself off-campus amid an hours-long manhunt during which frightened students hid in the dark.
Forbes has a report on how Chinese state media use TikTok to try to influence American elections. It dwarfs the piddling effort the Russians made several cycles ago: TikTok accounts run by the propaganda arm of the Chinese government have accumulated millions of followers and tens of millions of views, many of them on videos editorializing about U.S. politics without clear disclosure that they were posted by a foreign government.