The recent “forced disappearance” of 12 young people from an after-hours club in Mexico City (an estimated 26,000 people have disappeared in the past six years) has resulted,…
Drug War
If you are interested in finding solutions to the War on Drugs, you will want to take a look at the Organization of American States document titled Scenarios…
The war on drugs is like the classic mafia protection racket: our government creates a perpetual problem and then charges us exorbitantly to ‘protect’ us from it.
Why keep an undercover officer in play almost a year after the protests that put him into motion as a spy?
What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?
Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today’s debate about capital punishment, prisons and guns goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must…
Mexico’s reception of President Barack Obama last weekend and of his immigration reform bill is decidedly mixed. The bill’s emphasis on border security and its downgrading of family…
Neill Franklin: While 45 percent of Americans oppose legal marijuana, 70 percent think enforcing federal drug laws is a waste of money.
Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of
The US criminal justice system has transformed into a tool of the national security state.