
A War of Anonymous Death
• counterpunch.orgMay 11th, 2011 - Parents of the Slain Rise Up Against the Drug War in Mexico
May 11th, 2011 - Parents of the Slain Rise Up Against the Drug War in Mexico
John Gibler - Immigration: "U.S. Drug Demand Destabilizes Mexico" - Author: "To Die In Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War" / Mish Shedlock - China & U.S. Debt - World Economy
Middle Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade?
"Mom, was my dad a bad guy?" 4-year-old Joel Guerena plaintively asked his mother Vanessa after her husband, 26-year-old Jose, was killed in a withering barrage of gunfire during a SWAT invasion of their home. "They killed my dad! Police killed my da
Michael Gerson's attempt to taint the untaint-able philosophy, along with his complete misunderstanding and miss-characterization of the implications of Republican Presidential Front-runner, Dr. Ron Paul, M.D.'s, positions, gave rise to this letter.
Almost two-thirds of the arrests were made in New South Wales state, followed by Western Australia, and included numerous assaults on police officers. Other offences included drink-driving, urinating in public, failing to quit a licensed premises
Not all of the guns acquired in the US and crossing the border go to the Narco Trafficantes. Many end up in the hands of regular folks looking to survive.
After repeatedly ordering a man to lower his window at a DUI checkpoint in California, police broke the window and arrested the car’s two occupants for resisting arrest. The incident was caught on video by the passenger, which was released last we
Medical marijuana is now a $1.7-billion market in the U.S. This means that sales of medical marijuana rival the annual revenue generated by Viagra, a $1.9-billion business.
WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT. Why would you put out neo BS?
Read LetterRobert Watson, a high-ranking Republican state legislator in Rhode Island, is in hot water after being charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Drug charges alone would be bad enough fo
Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone.
In establishing a standard for trial courts in determining “drug dog” reliability for search PC, the Oregon supremes throw science and common sense out the window.
A lawmaker's speech railing against drunken driving reform _ mocked mercilessly by political opponents _ is no laughing matter to activists who say it perpetuates the state's dangerous boozy culture. Bar owner Alan Hale said in a speech on the Hou
Proposition 203 has sparked dismissal of pot-possession charges in Mohave County against at least 10 people who had out-of-state medical-weed cards.
About 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence, and about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States, according to a new study.
“She was trying to tell me something,” he said, a day after the funeral for Daisy Oviedo Mejía, 22, who died in a storm of bullets while watching her brother play soccer a few weeks ago. “But she couldn’t. I gave her mouth-to-mouth but there was too
The Colombian military began using U.S.-supplied surveillance drones for counterterrorism and counter-narcotics operations in 2006, according to a classified State Department cable released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.
Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white film produced in 1942 by the USDA outlining a plan to distribute 400,000 lbs. of cannabis seeds to American farmers with the goal of producing 350,000 acres of cannabis by 1943 -- all for the war effort. The USDA
The Las Vegas deputy district attorney who prosecuted Paris Hilton for cocaine possession was arrested over the weekend after allegedly buying a rock of cocaine, authorities said on Monday.
Stepping up its involvement in Mexico’s drug war, the Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexican territory to gather intelligence that helps locate major traffickers and follow their networks, according to American and Mexican of
It may be the IRS and not the DEA that puts the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana out of business. Alliance founder Lynette Shaw was stunned when the IRS audited her 2008 and 2009 tax returns and disallowed the foundation's business deductions, th
Remember, kids. According to mother Hillary, only barbaric regimes use violence against peaceful protesters and activists. Never mind the dozen medical marijuana facilities raided today.
Do police departments ever target law abiding citizens because they want to find grounds to seize their property?
Do police departments ever target law abiding citizens because they want to find grounds to seize their property?
Why Cops Love the Drug War
I’m leaving Mexico. No, it’s not because I’ve been robbed, beaten, or kidnapped by the drug cartels. And it’s not because some corrupt policias tried to shake me down, because I contracted swine flu, or that beheaded bodies were left in the street ou
In an industrial section of Oakland, California, former Morgan Stanley investment banker Derek Peterson hops into a trailer being outfitted with shower drains, lights and humidifers, all used for growing marijuana.
Fighting a multi-decades war against plants is just a dumb idea, ranking up there with other such gems as spending our way out of recession, borrowing our way out of debt, and invading other countries to reduce hatred against America.
The pro-legalization group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition fretted that President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon were embarking on a counterproductive mission after the two pledged "renewed cooperation" on the drug war Thursda