<Dl> <Dd> Refusal of peasants to pay rent, taxes, or loan payments . Increase in the number of entertainers with a political message . Discrediting the judicial system and police organizations . Characterization of the armed forces as the enemy of the people . Appearance of questionable doctrine in the educational system . Appearance of many new members in established organizations like labor organizations . Increased unrest among laborers . Increased student activity against the government and its police, or against minority groups, foreigners and the like . An increased number of articles or advertisements in newspapers criticizing the government . Strikes or work stoppages called to protest government actions . Increase of petitions demanding government redress of grievances . Proliferation of slogans pinpointing specific grievances . Initiation of letter - writing campaigns to newspapers and government officials deploring undesirable conditions and blaming individuals in power . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Refusal of peasants to pay rent, taxes, or loan payments . Increase in the number of entertainers with a political message . Discrediting the judicial system and police organizations . Characterization of the armed forces as the enemy of the people . Appearance of questionable doctrine in the educational system . Appearance of many new members in established organizations like labor organizations . Increased unrest among laborers . Increased student activity against the government and its police, or against minority groups, foreigners and the like . An increased number of articles or advertisements in newspapers criticizing the government . Strikes or work stoppages called to protest government actions . Increase of petitions demanding government redress of grievances . Proliferation of slogans pinpointing specific grievances . Initiation of letter - writing campaigns to newspapers and government officials deploring undesirable conditions and blaming individuals in power . </Dd> <P> Author Doug Stokes claims that there is a major discrepancy between the U.S. "stated goals of US policy and the actual targets and effects" of the war on drugs in Colombia, arguing that U.S. military assistance has been primarily directed at fighting the FARC and ELN guerrillas despite the fact that past CIA and DEA reports have identified the insurgents as minor players in the drug trade . Stokes proposes a revisionist continuity theory: that the War on drugs is a pre-text and this war, just as the Cold War that preceded it and the War on Terror that followed it, was mainly about Northern Hemisphere competition to control and exploit Southern Hemisphere natural resources . In other words, "the maintenance of a world capitalist order conducive to US economic interests ." As this competition for third world resources has continued even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there would be continuity in US foreign policy . </P> <P> In 1986, the U.S. Defense Department funded a two - year study by the RAND Corporation, a private organization with a long and close relationship with the U.S. government . This study found that the use of the armed forces to interdict drugs coming into the United States would have little or no effect on cocaine trafficking and might in fact raise the profits of cocaine cartels and manufacturers . The 175 - page study, "Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction," was prepared by seven researchers, mathematicians and economists at the National Defense Research Institute . The study noted that seven prior studies in the past nine years, including one by the Center for Naval Research and the Office of Technology Assessment, had come to similar conclusions . Interdiction efforts using current armed forces resources would have almost no effect on cocaine importation into the United States, the report concluded . </P>

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