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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, US Military, Sco, World Cup, Afghanistan, Drug War, Ignoramus, Dalai Lama, Pakistan, North Korea, Mexico, Iran, Drugs, Tibet, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, War on Drugs, Taliban, South Africa, g20, Barack Obama, Pyongyang, Lisbon Treaty, Missile Launch, Chinese Military, American Journalists, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ali Larijani, China, Czech Republic, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A Failed Mexican State? Facts: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Mexico and committed more ...

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Taking the Pro-Pot Position (Because Somebody Has To)

Dan Sweeney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana Legalization, Obama Online Town Hall, Marijuana, Barack Obama, Drug War, Obama Drug Policy, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Obama Marijuana, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

Ganja may cause the giggles, but legalization shouldn't be a laughing matter. And it certainly shouldn't be treated as cavalierly as it has by the current administration.

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News
Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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Obama Readies Major Anti-Drug Effort On Mexican Border

Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu and Mary Beth Sheridan | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexico Drug War, President Obama, Obama Administration, Mexico, Drug War, War on Drugs, Politics News

President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felip...

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Guns and Drugs: How US Policies Destroy Our Inner Cities and the Third World

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Laws, Gang Violence, Mexican Drug Trade, Cocaine, War on Drugs, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

By arresting minorities, America tries to show that it's fighting the drug problem while Whites in the suburbs are free to use and abuse drugs without solid police interference.

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Another Spectacular Failure: The War on Drugs

Philip Slater | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Prisons, War on Drugs, Politics News
Philip Slater

We Americans seem to be incapable of learning from past mistakes. We learned nothing from the debacle of 1929. We learned nothing from Vietnam. And...

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An Ounce of Gold and Ounce of Cocaine, a Trillion Dollar Deficit and a War in Vain

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drugs, Coca, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Legalization, Drug Legalization, Cocaine, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

What if I told you there is a way to reduce federal and state government spending, increase tax revenue, stabilize friendly foreign governments, fight terrorism and reduce the crime rate, all in one fell swoop?

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Time to Show the World

Russell Simmons | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Nyc, Russell Simmons, Protest, Governor David Paterson, New York, Drugs, War on Drugs, Celebrities Talk Politics, Politics News
Russell Simmons

The nation is watching to see if we will do the right thing in New York by repealing the Rockefeller Drug Laws. And if we do the right thing, the nation will follow in our footsteps.

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Obama Nominating Seattle Police Chief as Drug Czar

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Barack-Obama-War-on-Drugs, Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Czar, Medical Marijuana, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug War, Obama Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, Kerlikowske, Obama Drug Policy, Politics News
Ethan Nadelmann

What gives me hope is the fact that Seattle has been at the cutting edge of harm reduction and other drug policy reform developments in the U.S. over the last decade.

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USA Fumbles UN Drug Policy in Vienna

Allan Clear | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Needle Exchange, United Nations, Harm Reduction, Obama Administration, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, World News
Allan Clear

Will this be the year that member states will move towards a public health and human rights approach to drug policy? The signs have not been good.

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On Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, HIV is Close to Home in NYC

Rona Taylor | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, War on Drugs, Poverty, New York City, NYC Marathon, Living News
Rona Taylor

Until we begin understanding HIV as a problem of communities rather than individuals, and begin addressing it with services and systems, the numbers of women living with the virus will keep growing.

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Dumping the Rockefeller Drug Laws for a New Direction in New York

Russell Simmons | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Andrew Cuomo, War on Drugs, David Paterson, New York, Russell Simmons, Politics News
Russell Simmons

Today, there are approximately 12,000 people in New York prisons under the Rockefeller Drug Laws, more than 90 percent of who are Black and Latino. There is no excuse for this disparity.

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Happy To See My Mug Shot on the Home Page of the NY Times

Anthony Papa | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Drugs, Treatment, Breaking Politics News, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Prison, Politics News
Anthony Papa

The reason my mugshot was on the New York Times site is because they featured me in a video on the New York Assembly passing legislation yesterday to overhaul the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

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In Anti-Drug Policy, Race Remains

Jamie Fellner | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Drug War Race, Drug War, Racism, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Race, Drug Laws, Politics News
Jamie Fellner

It only takes fifteen minutes in any courthouse, watching the parade of black defendants arrested on drug charges, to realize racism still haunts us.

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Ending the "War on Drugs": The Fierce Urgency of...When?

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Drug War, Marijuana, Economy, Terrorism, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Norm Stamper, Politics News
Norm Stamper

The nation's longest running armed conflict, the drug war, financed to the tune of about $70 billion a year, is an unmitigated economic disaster.

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Leaving Cards on the Counter-Terror Table: Ways to Better Wage the "War on Terror"

Shahid Buttar | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tariffs, Free Trade, Military, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy, Agriculture, Corporate Welfare, Civil Liberties, Liberty, National Security, Obama Administration, Subsidies, Military Contractors, War on Drugs, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

We need not sacrifice our nation's fundamental constitutional freedoms to address extremist violence. Rather, we need merely stop pursuing corporate subsidies that inadvertently encourage it.

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Potential Drug Czar's Family Connection To Failed Drug War

Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Traffic, Drug Trafficking, Steven Soderbergh, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Marijuana, President Obama, Gil Kerlikowske, Drugs, War on Drugs, Michael Douglas, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

In the Academy Award winning film Traffic , Michael Douglas plays the nation's new Drug Czar who discovers just how unwinnable The War On Drugs really...

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Ireland: Dutch Woman Jailed 6 Years For Swallowed Bags Of Cocaine

BBC | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Belfast, Netherlands, HMRC, Ireland, Drugs, War on Drugs, Europe, Coke, Cocaine, World News

A Dutch woman who swallowed cocaine worth £520,000 in an attempt to smuggle it into Northern Ireland has been jailed for six years....

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Obama's New Drug Czar Couldn't Be Any Worse Than Bush's. Will He Be Any Better?

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Phelps, Gil Kerlikowske, Marijuana, Drug Czar, Drug War, Drugs, War on Drugs, Legalization, Prohibition, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Obama Drug Czar, Kerlikowske, Obama Drug Policy, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Current Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske will no doubt do a better job as the nation's "drug czar" than his predecessor, John Walters, who was a fanatic enemy of science and reason.

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Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse

Johann Hari | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan Narco State, Afghanistan Drugs, Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Mexico Drug War, Afghanistan, Mexico, Mexico Drugs, Drugs, War on Drugs, Afghanistan Opium, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Drug Policy, Politics News
Johann Hari

We now have a chance to bankrupt the Mexican cartels, the Taliban, the Bloods and the Crips, and the gangs that are shooting their way across world -- before they cause the collapse of two countries.

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One Cop To Another: Don't Arrest Phelps for Bong Photo

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: War on Drugs, Legalization, Marijuana, Drug Policy, Michael Phelps, Phelps Pot, Phelps Marijuana, Michael Phelps Pot, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Michael Phelps Bong Photo, Michael Phelps Smoking a Bong, Michael Phelps Smoking Pot, Michael Phelps Bong, Phelps Bong, Michael Phelps Smoking, Entertainment News
Norm Stamper

I'd be willing to bet your pension, Sheriff, that every police officer in the country knows you have no legal mandate to arrest Michael Phelps.

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What If a State Failed and Nobody Cared?

Adam Elkus | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug War, National Security, Failed State, Mexico, BORDER ISSUES, World News
Adam Elkus

No one puts Mexico in the same category as a violent, unstable state like Pakistan. No one, that is, except the Pentagon.

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Obama's Choice: Sane U.N. Drug Policy or the Same Old Failed War-on-Drugs Routine?

Allan Clear | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, Obama, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, United Nations, World News
Allan Clear

By making drug use as dangerous as possible, the US has facilitated the spread of HIV and hepatitis, and has created a prison system unlike anything since the Soviet gulags.

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Drug War is Not Just a Metaphor; So How Do We Stop the Shooting?

Sito Negron | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Silvestre Reyes, Drug War, Border Security, El Paso, newspapertree.com, Juarez, Beto O'rourke, War on Drugs, Politics News
Sito Negron

As seen in El Paso, from its inception, the Drug War has been about fear and a rushed response to a missed diagnosis.

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Strange Bedfellows: Bush Bids Farewell to Ex-Con

Anthony Papa | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, War on Drugs, President Bush, Faith-Based Initiatives, Bush Last Press Conference, George Bush, Speech, Presidential Pardons, Bush Last Speech, Bush Pardons, Politics News
Anthony Papa

Former drug-war prisoner Julio Medina opened Exodus Transitional Community in East Harlem, New York, to assist formerly incarcerated men and women as they integrated back into the community.

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