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Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Leads U.S. Peace Caravan: Will Americans Wake Up to Our "Absurd" Drug War's Blood Trail?

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 10, 2012.

One of Mexico’s best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his son was murdered by drug traffickers. Now, he is on a mission to transform drug policy.

Why Has It Become Standard Practice in the U.S. to Embalm Our Dead?

Frankie Colmane, AlterNet. July 7, 2010.

Is it necessary to be disinfected, preserved, cosmetized and deodorized for your going-away party?

How Dead People Have More Rights Than You Do!

Ray D. Madoff, Yale University Press. July 1, 2010.

The new book 'Immortality and the Law of the Dead' explores America's own strange approach to the legal powers of the deceased.

Matt Taibbi on Breitbart\'s Death: \"Don\'t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out\"

Kristen Gwynne, December 31, 1969.

Egyptians Fight Back, Protest the Military

December 31, 1969.