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— Karl Marx

Culture Corner:
Fort Bragg Cartel and The Voice of Hind Rajab

Jan 19, 2026

Book: Fort Bragg Cartel, Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp, 2025

This best-selling investigative book focuses on U.S. military Special Forces, whose base is in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Delta Force, who went recently into Venezuela, is one of these units. The book tells mainly of their role in Iraq and Afghanistan, and back home in and around Fort Bragg.

When troops are listed in a country like Iraq, Special Forces are not listed, as their presence is secret. Kills by Special Forces, contractors, and drones are not included in totals. The author reports from numerous sources that this classified secret status allowed them to operate as hit squads, often without warrant. In Afghanistan the local allies were often poppy growing warlords. During the American occupation, 90% of the world’s heroin was produced in Afghanistan. And in Iraq, stress and a high work load caused the military to prescribe amphetamines, or speed, to soldiers.

The book shows how all these factors caused soldiers to be drug addicted, high risk taking, edgy and brutal and to have grave difficulties in their everyday life. Over 100 soldiers have died at Fort Bragg, 44 in just one year, 2020. Some are said to be suicides with numerous gunshot wounds. No matter what the crime, they are rarely prosecuted for anything. They remain, to this day, a secret tool of the military for the blackest of ops.

Film: The Voice of Hind Rajab, 2025, available for viewing at independent theaters

This film is a dramatic recreation of a car of Palestinians in Gaza coming under Israeli attack. It was riddled with 335 bullets. A five-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, is hiding under the car and calls an emergency hotline as her family lays dying. The film is unfurled in the narrow confines of the Red Crescent call center, with actors playing the roles of the four emergency workers who were on the other end of the line—but Hind’s voice is her own. The actors respond to the real voice, trying to encourage and console Hind as the emergency workers had done, recreating the agony of their ultimate failure.

This film lays bare the horror and despair as now over 20,000 children have died in Gaza and the deaths continue to this day.