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.
DHS has little to show for its drone spending spree other than stacks of seized marijuana and a few thousand immigrants who crossed the border without visas.
Aurelia Fierros, Huffington Post. December 7, 2011.
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs", the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
We must respect sex workers as humans with rights and choices, and crusade against exploitation. Media freak-outs about sex work and trafficking accomplish neither.
Audacia Ray, RH Reality Check. September 22, 2010.
Many independent sex workers use the Internet to gain control over their working conditions and avoid agencies, pimps, gentleman's clubs, and brothels.
When Ramil Autencio arrived in Iraq, he had the promise of a two-year job, making $450 a month to better life for himself and his family in the Philippines. What he got was a wartime nightmare.
