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Can Drug Policy Prevent Reefer Madness?
A cross-national comparison of alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents indicates that stricter laws may prevent high school kids from drinking, but not from smoking pot. Raise your hand …
Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
Tom Engelhardt: Introduction Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception
Haiti: US Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to …
News Media Coverage of “Risk of Instability” in Haiti Is Letting Politics Slow Aid
Over 10,000 US troops are in Haiti right now. That's at least one US soldier for every 100 Haitians. If these soldiers were actually distributing food and water, every …
Honduran Coup d’Etat a “Win” for the US?
Today, Pepe Lobo will be inaugurated as the new president of Honduras in what many consider to be an institutionalization of the coup d'état, which took place seven months …
Truthout Daily Newsletter 1/21/2010
Thursday 21 January 2010 ACORN Controversy: A Video Interview With CEO Bertha Lewis Matt Renner, Truthout: "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has been …
Haitian Radio Helps Keep a Country Afloat
Signal FM, a music radio station, survived the quake and is helping others in the aftermath. Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Radio presenter and DJ, Jean Gary Apollon, had just put …
At San Isidro Air Base, a Missed Opportunity to Help Haiti
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Last Wednesday, a team lead by the US State Department and the US Armed Forces, along with help from Dominican forces and the US …
Profiting From Haiti’s Crisis: Disaster Capitalism in Washington’s Backyard
US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic …
William J. Astore | A Very American Coup: Coming Soon to a Hometown Near You
The wars in distant lands were always going to come home, but not this way. It's September 2016, year 15 of America's “Long War” against terror. As weary troops …