World-News

By Lewis Lapham

The war against human nature strengthens the fear of one s fellow man. The red, white, and blue pills sell the hope of heaven made with artificial sweeteners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33280.htm



Proof The Drug War Is A Joke'

By Matt Taibbi

This is the disgrace to end all disgraces. It doesn t even make any sense.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33371.htm



Mexico s new government offers blistering critique U.S.-backed drug war

''The rate of increase in homicides places us among the highest in the world,'' he said. ''In recent years, because of the violence linked to organized crime, thousands of people have died and thousands of people have disappeared.'' Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said.

http://is.gd/O91yke



10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society

From racial injustice to flawed foreign policy, the war on drugs causes harm on many fronts.

http://is.gd/Wx0dbf



The House I Live In

Video Documentary

The War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world s largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong, and what can be done?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34464.htm



10 Shocking Examples of Police Killing Innocent People in the 'War on Drugs'

Many innocent victims have become collateral damage in our pointless, destructive drug war.

http://is.gd/P6DT6w


From Information Clearing House

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When Will the Drug War Finally End?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/11-1

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Next Target: Latin America
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war-1/next-target-latin-america.html

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The war on drugs is still not working

Mother Jones
by Asawin Suebsaeng

04/02/13

Four decades ago, President Nixon launched the US-led global War on Drugs. It has cost the nation over a trillion dollars. 50,000 people have lost their lives to shootouts, bombings, torture, and execution, and that s only counting six years in Mexico. And it is still not working...

http://tinyurl.com/bpcwylh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Growing War on the War on Drugs

Andrew Cohen, Brennan Center for Justice: The problem of the mass incarceration of America didn t start with a single event, and it won t end with one. There will have to be incremental reform, because throwing millions into prison for drug crimes isn t working.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15659-the-growing-war-on-the-war-on-drugs



There Is No Good Drug War

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: Carl Hart contends that we should concentrate public policy energy around confronting the core problems that decimate communities, not fighting a war to eradicate certain illegal drugs.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17865-bad-science-and-the-drug-war-book-review-interview-with-carl-hart



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