Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines - 2010/06/13 - They Just Found $1 Trillion in Afghanistan - Afghanistan was thought to be a hardscrabble wasteland good for producing little more than opium—that is until a gang of American geologists working from old Soviet maps uncovered a variety of mineral deposits thought to be rich enough to radically alter our whole concept of Afghanistan and the war to control it. http://ping.fm/vQOJk