Mexicans Are Fed Up with the War on Drugs– The Beacon
By Robert HiggsSunday April 10, 2011 at 11:32:17 AM PDT A few days ago, tens of thousands of Mexicans in scores of Mexican cities participated in public protests against the War on Drugs and the use of...
View ArticleColombia Is No Model for Mexico’s Drug War
What’s made clear in this Re-post of a Borderland Beat post is that, as in the United States, the War on Drugs is a war on the poor. It isolates them, makes them subject to more criminals, and U.S....
View ArticleAmerica’s Flimsy Fortress
America’s Flimsy Fortress Bruce Schneier Wired Magazine, March 2004 Every day, some 82,000 foreign visitors set foot in the US with a visa, and since early this year, most of them have been...
View ArticleCA Neighbor Mexico Spirals Into Anarchy | CalWatchDog
Instead of the Bush-Obama “war” on drugs being exported to Mexico, there are two actions that can end, or at least greatly reduce, the country’s deadly gang wars and massive government corruption....
View ArticleDrug-Related Mexican Violence Soars, As US Policy Bolsters Cartels — News...
Drug cartels are tightening their grip in Acapulco, where civilian communities attempt to resist by John Glaser, August 31, 2011 As of early August, 650 people had been killed in Acapulco, Mexico in...
View ArticleHappy and safe Labor Day weekend to all. Tuesday’s Gadfly Radio show will...
Kyle Kazan twice led his department in felony arrests. He also testified as a court certified expert in drug sales. Kyle’s work as a foot soldier in the war on drugs gave him insight into the...
View ArticleTonight on Gadfly Radio w/ Martha Montelongo and CalWatchDog’s John Seiler,...
Gadfly Radio Tonight, at 8 PM PT To Listen Live, Click here, on Channel 2: Live Call in number: 1-818-602-4929 September 6, 2011 Tonight live at 8PM PT: Tonight on Gadfly Radio, Ben Boychuk of CA...
View ArticleA Democratic Tea Party and a Turning Point on Opposition to the War On Drugs...
“Mr. O’Rourke’s stance in favor of marijuana legalization is also something to watch. Conventional wisdom holds that such a view will kill a political career. But Mr. O’Rourke may have been helped by...
View ArticleThe Damage to Modern Policing by Our War on Drugs
By Sean Dunagan, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Posted on Radley Balko’s site, The Agitator The war on drugs has claimed innumerable victims. The tens of thousands killed in Mexico, the half a...
View ArticleFeds probe drug task force in south Texas– More evidence, the War on Drugs...
The police officer sons of two south Texas law enforcement chiefs who made fighting corruption the cornerstones of their careers have been taken into custody on suspicion of waylaying drug caches...
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