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.
No Afghan national army has ever saved a government, or even tried to. Instead, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d’état, or participated in one itself.
The murder and "disappearance" of vast numbers of Colombians is part and parcel of the U.S.'s policy to "drain the sea [the civilian population] to kill the fish [the insurgents]."
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 2, 2012.
The popular image of street gang violence in the US as being "drug-related" is largely mistaken, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report.
Emily Dickinson, Washington Monthly. January 16, 2012.
Colombia’s incredible turnaround strategy has become a rare success story in the drug war, as well as its most formidable brand and export. It is, however, problematic.
Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, may struggle to help you find a legitimate abortion clinic, but ask where to bury a dead body or get a blow job, and she's got loads of ideas.
Shay O'Reilly, Campus Progress. September 11, 2011.
The slaying of Lawrence King has alarmed gay rights activists and led to demands that middle schools do more to educate youngsters about discrimination.
Angus Stickler, Caelainn Barr, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. September 8, 2011.
Despite ample evidence of ethnic cleansing, widespread torture and extra-judicial killings by Ethiopian government forces, the US, UK and EU continue to lavish aid on Addis Ababa
Let's have no more celebrations of anyone's death, but on that glorious day when the US doesn't kill any person on this planet, then let us sing and dance in the streets.
Thanks to the anti-choice movement, poor women throughout the U.S. cannot afford safe abortions and are sometimes forced to make extremely dangerous choices.
David Swanson, davidswanson.org. February 5, 2010.
Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.
