US extends National Guard stay on Mexico border
A National Guardsman watches over the US border © AFP/Getty Images/File John Moore AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The 1,200 National Guard soldiers deployed to the…
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BATF Sent Guns to Terrorists: Will Obama AG be Held Accountable by Congress?
Jack Blood, Contributing Writer Activist Post The headline reads: “House Committee demands documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious.” The buck does not stop with Obama…
The Mexican Drug Cartels Are A National Security Issue
Drug war related murders in Mexico 2006-2011 – Wiki Image Grace Wyler Business Insider The U.S. and Mexico have categorically rejected a recent report from…
Senate report: The Latin American war on drugs has ‘largely failed’
NORML image Stephen C. Webster Raw Story A U.S. Senate subcommittee report this week called into question efforts to curb drug exports from Latin America,…
Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose…
The War on Drugs and the Surveillance Society
NORML image Jay Stanley ACLU June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “war on drugs” — a war that…
Government Pays For Marijuana Study But INSIST Synthetic Chemical Is Used (Video)
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War on drugs not working, says global commission
Governments should decriminalise drug use, according to high profile panel, including Kofi Annan and Richard Branson Guardian/AP The global war on drugs has failed and…
Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure
CNN Saying it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance…
The War on Drugs is a War on Consciousness
Graham Hancock Reality Sandwich We are told that the “war on drugs” is being waged, on our behalf, by our governments and their armed bureaucracies…
US, Mexico build police academy in anti-drug effort
Editor’s Note: Throwing good money after bad in the war on drugs to fight the supply chain. Never mind that the magnet of demand is…
US lawmakers urge terrorist label for Mexican cartels
A broken windshield © AFP/File AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Key US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter released Friday to support…
‘Unprecedented’ level of violence in Mexico: FBI
confrontation with members of a gang in Mexico © AFP/File Antonio Palacios AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Using unusually blunt language, FBI Director Robert Mueller told…
US broadens LatAm drug strategy
Editor’s Note: More tax dollars going to another foolish war that is impossible to win. Gil Kerlikowske, director of National Drug Control Policy © AFP…