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By Chris Abani
By Martin Jacques
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The Pentagon has traditionally played a major role in monitoring U.S. borders and assisting the Coast Guard in intercepting drug shipments, but the burden of Iraq has forced the military to scale back its efforts, opening holes for drug smugglers to exploit.
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The same research lab that cloned Dolly the sheep has found a way to produce cancer-fighting proteins in genetically modified chicken eggs. Although practical treatments could be years off, the process promises to reduce the cost and complexity of generating cancer medicine.
Posted on Jan 14, 2007
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illustration by Peter Scheer
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Researchers from Dublin City University already believed that drug use was on the rise in Ireland, but they were surprised when their study indicated that 100 percent of Ireland’s banknotes bear traces of cocaine.
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Froma Harrop —
When they said a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, they couldn’t have been talking about James Brown, whose surprising longevity made fools of the health-conscious.
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jwharrison.com
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The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with 2.2 million people in prison and 7 million in prison, on probation or on parole. China, which has about a billion more people than the U.S., has only 1.5 million prisoners.
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By Marie Cocco — A new study suggests Medicare will lose $30 billion in overpayments to private companies over the next five years. While Republicans made the mess, the Democrats have threatened to do little more than spray Windex on a landfill.
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narconews.com
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The Observer’s online edition says it has obtained documents that show U.S. officials allowed a drug informant to continue a campaign of murder in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, so as to preserve his ability to share information. At least 12 people were killed, with knowledge of the murderer allegedly extending into the upper echelons of American power. Thanks to Cynthia Marler-Wills for the tip.
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Confused and panicked by plainclothes police officers attempting to serve a warrant, the elderly woman shot three police officers before being killed herself. A new Cato Institute report estimates that 40,000 such paramilitary-style raids take place each year—courtesy of America’s criminally wrongheaded approach to drug control.
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The sheer pleasure of getting lessons in etiquette from Karl Rove and the right-wing media passeth all understanding.
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By Steven Kotler — In this summer’s most talked-about movie, “A Scanner Darkly,” Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against?
This article ran in May, but we’re trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week.
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By Tom Hayden — The social and political activist discusses the war in Iraq, U.S.-Cuba relations, and America’s war on drugs. (translated from a Cuban newspaper)
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From printroom.com
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By Sheerly Avni — The prominent black activist and mentor for incarcerated youth in Oakland, Calif. argues that it’s time to hold hip-hop artists accountable for the messages behind their music.
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist quotes the president as saying the move “is designed to free up my time for other duties, such as wiretapping the American people at random.”
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The legendary CBS anchorman pens a column attacking our nation’s “inhumane” drug war: “Nothing will change until someone has the courage to stand up and say what so many politicians privately know: The war on drugs has failed.”
Posted on Mar 2, 2006
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The Supreme Court unanimously rules that the government cannot stop a small New Mexican religious sect from using DMT, a banned substance. The case pitted religious freedom against the nation’s drug control laws.
Posted on Feb 21, 2006
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From CNN.com
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He recommended that the prime minister try to undercut the $6-billion-per-year black market, and to free heroin users from having to commit crimes to buy their drugs. | story
Hey, at least it’s more progressive than N.Y. state’s draconian and racist Rockefeller Laws.
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This New York Times piece spells out how fiendishly hard it’s going to be to threaten Iran over its nukes while simultaneously guzzling its oil. | story
It’s sort of like admonishing a drug dealer for selling heroin to kids, and then scoring a dime bag of blow for yourself.
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Secretary of State Rice will shift hundreds of Foreign Service positions away from Europe to hot spots in the Middle East and Asia. Well, it’s a start…. |story
Posted on Jan 18, 2006
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By Sheerly Avni — Memoirist-fraud James Frey brings out the big gun on “Larry King Live.”
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