the act of conducting trade or business, especially of an illicit kind. The international criminal banking cartel run most of the illegal trafficking worldwide including drugs, human (sex, organ harvesting, labor), arms, and laundering of money. Women and men, boys and girls are bought and sold worldwide. They may be living in poverty, unaccompanied children, migrants or people displaced by conflict. They are abused in many ways: Sexual exploitation & forced marriage, Forced labor & begging, Domestic servitude, child soldiers, and organ removal.
Arms trafficking is a crime which involves trafficking of weapons and ammunitions. Illegal trafficking of small arms is a trans-national phenomenon. This trade provides weapons to terrorist organizations operating around the world. Small arms trafficking is an approximately $1 billion-a-year illegal global business.
Drug trafficking by the CIA makes a major contribution to its black budget. Joël van der Reijden names this area as one of the most important covered up conspiracies of all time. After the CIA took over the heroin trade from the SDECE they upscaled it during the Vietnam War. This formula has been repeated in South America with cocaine, a process well documented and placed on the internet in the 1990s by Gary Webb. Post 9-11, the CIA has managed the drug trafficking out of Afghanistan. Drug trafficking is closely integrated with official US/Foreign Policy, although the official narrative remains that the CIA doesn’t engage in drug trafficking as a matter of policy.