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Original Technorati articles tagged “war on drugs”

• in Politics
  Congress to Consider Decriminalizing Marijuana
  Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank introduce a bill that would decriminalize marijuana.
  by elizabethross / on Jun 24, 2011
• in Politics
  War on Drugs an Epic Fail, Says New Report by World Leaders
  World leaders say we lost the war on drugs. Now what?
  by jimmyzuma / on Jun 2, 2011
• in Politics
  The Institutionalization of the War on Drugs
  As the death toll rises in Mexico, failed U.S. drug policy continues uninterrupted.
  by theflylooper / on May 2, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “war on drugs”

 

• [Interview] Caveman

  
  Proxart — Authority: 108
  When I first discovered Caveman, they were a little-known band from Brooklyn with one of the unexpectedly best albums of the year . However, their debut album, CoCo Beware , had yet to be released and they were still playing mostly local shows. But soon after it was released last fall, many finally caught wind of ...
  5 days ago

• Sir Richard Branson – It’s time to end the failed war on drugs

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  Treating addicts as criminals has done absolutely nothing to address this crisis, writes Richard Branson. The war on drugs has been a costly failure, says Sir Richard Branson Photo: PAFrom Telegraph: Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has failed globally. Over ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian adults overwhelmingly support legal pot

  
  Eideard — Authority: 127
  Canadian adults overwhelmingly support legal pot.
  1 week ago

• The New Jim Crow - Now in Trade Paperback

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  Leonard Pitts writes, " The new Jim Crow alive and thriving ," in his syndicted column.  Its via his home paper, the Miami Herald. In June of 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, The New Jim Crow , by Michelle Alexander, which I called a “troubling and profoundly necessary” work. Alexander promulgated ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Justified’ Open Thread: Smart On The Draw

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 833
  This post contains spoilers through the January 17 episode of Justified. Before plunging into what looks to be a tremendously exciting season of Justified , a thought: why is it that our great prestige television about cities that aren’t New York, Los Angeles, or Washington, DC has to be about the drug trade? ...
  1 week ago

• New Chapter Day! [This post has been found in violation of H.R. 3261 S.O.P.A. and has been removed]

  
  Chris Dee's Cat-Tales Blog — Authority: 94
  The new chapter is ready.  It would have gone up today, but instead, it will be released tomorrow so I can add just one small voice to the SOPA Blackout in progress at Wikipedia, Reddit, and other sites trying to spread awareness of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA bill which the US Congress will vote on next ...
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• BLACKWATER GOES TO MEXICO - AND BY NOW YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT GOOD. WHERES DOJ IN THIS?

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7310
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• Features & Columns

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will form the Adultery Party Politics the electoral college will be replaced by a system where voters will choose the polling firm they trust the most. Barack Obama will be re-elected because his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden will be replaced by Hillary Clinton, thereby ...
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• WTF?! – Pentagon Transfers War on Drugs to Private Mercenaries Including Blackwater

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 134
  by Eric Blair Activist Post Since the drug war has become so unpopular with the electorate, instead of politicians actually changing the drug laws, the Department of Defense seeks to reduce and conceal the real costs by transferring the “dirty work” to private contractors to do what “ U.S. military ...
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• Incarceration Rates of Americans as a Percentage of Population

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 110
  Tweet [IMG: http://www.jordoncooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/US_incarceration_rate_timeline.gif]
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• UNPOPULAR WAR ON DRUGS TRANSFERRED TO PRIVATE MERCENARY CONTRACTORS - POLITICIANS LOVE THIS WAR BUT CITIZENS DO NOT

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/war-on-drugs-transferred-to-private.html Ka ching! The money goes round and round.
  1 week ago

• Murder City: Death and Drugs in Mexico

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 97
  I just finished Charles Bowden’s Murder City , possibly the most disturbing book I’ve ever read. The horrifying death toll in Mexico due to the “War on Drugs” is an international catastrophe that nobody in the world seems to give a damn about. Articles headlined the ‘Drug War Death Toll’ say maybe ...
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• Who Won the Debate?: January 16th 2012 Edition

  
  The Swash — Authority: 129
  *Written by Rob Rimes . I’ve lost count of all the debates that we’ve had thus far but thank god we only have another half dozen or so, unless of course they decide to work more into the schedule somewhere. This one was thrown by Fox News and held in South Carolina as their primary is less than a week away. Fox ...
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• [hot off the press] SXSW 2012

  
  Concrete Opinions — Authority: 113
  SXSW is right around the corner (March 9 – 18) and the music schedule is is now live. Other than CMJ , this is by far the best music festival in the US.  I don’t have the time and/or patience to list the hundreds of bands announced to play, but some of my favorites include: Alabama Shakes, Built to ...
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• Linksplat – 17/01/12

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  – Depressingly, I don’t find it hard to believe that a Republican Congressman could be caught publicly praying for Obama’s death . However, given the exact Bible quote he was referring to, isn’t it entirely possible he was just hoping for the guy to lose an election? – These statistics on drug-related ...
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• ‘Michelle Alexander: Jim Crow Still Exists in America’

  
  Friends of Justice — Authority: 411
  By Melanie Wilmoth In a recent episode of Fresh Air on NPR, Dave Davies interviews attorney and author Michelle Alexander. In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Alexander argues that, as a result of the war on drugs, the U.S. has created a system of mass incarceration which ...
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• The GUNS ARE pointed at all our heads !

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 413
  I have to share this video. Stefan feels Ron Paul can change things….something I doubt , something I doubt about any one running…but everything else he said moved me.(Sorry B’man, I think your words and math would be lost here.) After watching it, I wanted to stand on my street and scream ” WHAT THE HELL IS ...
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• My solution for the jobs problem

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 413
  Read and just scroll down to my comment. Interesting story there. http://www.drugwarrant.com/2012/01/dea-creating-a-world-wide-prison-industry-here-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-104580 Filed under: Big Prison , Blogs: Information, Politics and Humor , Drug War , Uncategorized , War on Drugs , War on ...
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• #NowPlaying @ SXSW

  
  Blue Sky + Hard Rock — Authority: 120
  Bands recently announced to play @ SXSW in Austin this March… B e s t   C o a s tM.  W a r...
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• SXSW 2012 Schedule Up Today!

  
  The Silver Tongue — Authority: 435
  Quick, all you uber music fans out there scramble to get your SXSW 2012 personal schedules together. Today marked the release of the official schedule and, with it, some band and artist names that weren’t previously included on the ‘to-play’ list. I won’t lie; I started working on my schedule a month ago. But ...
  1 week ago

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