The London Review of Books has a review by Neal Ascherson of McMafia: Crime without Frontiers by Misha Glenny. He ends the review by noting that
Glenny ends with a call for action. The task, which no government wants to confront, is to regulate the global markets and above all the financial markets. National governments (including the British) which issue sanctimonious statements about global crime must start by closing down their offshore banking centres (the Caymans, the British Virgin Islands and so on), which are the world's laundries for dirty money. There was a moment in the 1990s when regulation seemed possible. But nothing happened. Misha Glenny's closing words are despairing: 'Since the millennium . . . a hostile United States, an incompetent European Union, a cynical Russia and an indifferent Japan have combined with the unstoppable ambition of China and India to usher in a vigorous springtime both for global corporations and for transnational organised crime.'
That's it, in a nutshell.
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I think there is an additional level of corrupt complexity here. Catherine Austin Fitts (www.solari.com) is known in part for a presentation she made regarding Wall Streets role in the laundering of drug money. I suspect The City and also the offshore banking centers you refer to also provide a similar service.
The point she made, was that the US economy is now dependent upon processing the $100 billion + a year from the drugs industry. Without it, she stated, the US Govt pensions scam (scheme) would be inoperable. It would surprise few if the same dynamic was not also at play here in the UK.
So the occupation of Afghanistan is to ensure safe and continued supply of drugs so that funds thereby received can be processed through offshore and other banking centers thereby keeping the “economy” from too rapid a nose dive. Which puts the 500% increase in the Afghanistan poppy crop into some sort of context and shows that the US and UK forces their are doing there proper job of protecting production reasonably well.