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• Amnesty accuses Mexican military of torture

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 457
  The Mexican military has tortured and illegally killed citizens and committed other serious human rights violations as it battles the nations drug cartels and organized crime groups, Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday. The human rights group accuses authorities of failing to investigate allegations of ...
  10 hours ago

• Anti-depressants ‘can change personality’

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 154
  Anti-depressants really can change someones personality, researchers find, as patients become more extrovert and less neurotic.
  14 hours ago

• 10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending

  
  bluebeerriver — Authority: 136
  By Tony Newman~AlterNet 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of America’s longest running war. Here’s 10 reasons why. 2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance promoting alternatives to the war on drugs for 10 years, and I can ...
  14 hours ago

• Who Wants War?: Ron Paul

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 154
  The President’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons we began the conflict.
  15 hours ago

• A Dubious Record in Mexico’s Drug War

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  By Ian Vasquez In 2008, there were some 6,300 drug war killings in Mexico, double that of the previous year. El Universal newspaper in Mexico reports that deaths related to the drug war have just surpassed 7,000 since the beginning of 2009, with more than 1000 of those homicides in the last 48 days. That’s a ...
  15 hours ago

• 10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 154
  2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of Americas longest running war. Heres 10 reasons why.
  15 hours ago

• EVO-lution!

  
  The Unapologetic Mexican — Authority: 564
  THE GUEST FROM DC spins things a bit, and positions the landslide win as positive because of alleged anti-cocaine programs promised by Morales. She also explains Morales’ policies’ popularity as a formulaically-minded “2/3 of the nation is poor and 1/3 is very poor” fashion, concluding that this is why his ...
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• Agent Orange: A tainted peace

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 154
  "I was about 16 when I saw the planes flying overhead, and I saw the spraying until I was married," said Kieu, 58. "It smelled like ripe guava. No trees could survive. It made my clothes wet."
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• Mexican drug gangs recruiting teens along the border

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 530
  BROWNSVILLE ( My San Antonio ) — The Texas Department of Public Safety last month warned parents of Mexican gang recruitment and the Border Patrol is continuing a “scare and awe” campaign highlighting the risks, including torture and death, of cartel employment that seems to promise street status and easy money. ...
  2 days ago

• juarez, nuevo leon: people of suburbia mexicana/ drug war

  
  alejandro cartagena — Authority: 126
  13 dead after shoot out in juarez nuevo leon. this is something that makes me rethink my projects i am pursuing there... this video was filmed here:
  2 days ago

• Poll: Mexicans Want to Keep Drug War Going

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  Few adults in Mexico would consent to the legalization of drugs, according to a poll by GEA-ISA. 75 per cent of respondents think it is necessary to keep fighting drug traffickers for an unlimited amount of time.Mexican president Felipe Calderón took over as Mexico’s head of state in December 2006. During his ...
  3 days ago

• President Obama Promises Full Employment

  
  aid and comfort — Authority: 107
  For drug addict dealers, drug gangsters, cartels and their terrorist suppliers. That is the only full employment promise that authoritarian Barack Obama made; full employment for drug addict dealers, drug gangsters, police and prison guards. These are the people who have job security as long as drug ...
  3 days ago

• How Minorities Are Targeted in Drug Enforcement

  
  Chris Moody — Authority: 123
  Racial minorities account for a majority of the population who are convicted of drug related crimes, but make up  no where near the majority of users. This is due to a variety of reasons, but one that I have found interesting is because most drug enforcement is done in public spaces, where minority drug peddlers do ...
  4 days ago

• Blogging the Masters Thesis

  
  Chris Moody — Authority: 123
  I began work on my masters thesis this year, and have decided that one of the best ways for me to retain some of the information is to blog it periodically. I will use this space to share bits of information that I find fascinating, and my analysis of it. To be submitted to The Johns Hopkins University in two years ...
  4 days ago

• Poll: Mexicans Want to Keep Drug War Going

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Few adults in Mexico would consent to the legalization of drugs, according to a poll by GEA-ISA. 75 per cent of respondents think it is necessary to keep fighting drug traffickers for an unlimited amount of time. Mexican president Felipe Calderón took over as Mexico’s head of state in December 2006. During his ...
  4 days ago

• student to obama: legalize prostitution, gambling & drugs

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 431
  from raw replay: One student in Allentown, Pennsylvania had a humorous question for the president Friday. “I was wondering if maybe if you checked out some of the statistics about legalizing prostitution, gambling, drugs and non-violent crime in order to stimulate some of the economy?” asked the second year ...
  5 days ago

• John P Walters – Drug Warrior to the Bitter End

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 443
  John P Walters is either ignorant, willfully misleading, or both. Saturday’s WSJ contained a pro/con section discussing legalization of drugs. The pro-legalization side, written by Steven B. Duke , mostly dwells on the benefits of legalizing marijuana, with arguments you’ve probably heard before: tax revenue, ...
  5 days ago

• World Cup Draw, Drugs, Bodies

  
  To the People — Authority: 122
  --Find a comfortable seat near a TV at 12 pm EST for the 2010 World Cup draw . Similar to the NCAA basketball bracket, the draw either gives hope to teams like the US or makes 3 years of hard work during qualifying seem utterly pointless in a matter of seconds. Whats not to like? If youre a US fan youre hoping for a ...
  5 days ago

• Media Outlets Of Interest

  
  GreenPassion.org - Dedicated to Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation and Education. — Authority: 164
  This thread is an attempt to consolidate media outlets of interest, including press services, TV and radio stations, periodical publications, web-based publishers, etc. Please confine the postings herein to this purpose, and provide the necessary contact details known. I will be scanning the forums to try and bring ...
  6 days ago

• It’s a raging drug war that has turned Phoenix, Ariz.,...

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 445
  It’s a raging drug war that has turned Phoenix, Ariz., into the second kidnapping capitol of the world. NGC correspondent Lisa Ling embeds with the Phoenix Police Department as they investigate the latest drug-related kidnapping, uncover a cache of $3 million worth of marijuana and ambush suspects at a ransom ...
  6 days ago

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