The DEA Gets Its Groove Back

The DEA Gets Its Groove Back

A month ago the Drug Enforcement Administration seemingly managed to reassert its relevance by demonstrating the role it can play ...
Iran-Contra Remix for the Twenty-First Century

Iran-Contra Remix for the Twenty-First Century

In the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s administration illegally defied Congress. What came to be called the “Iran-Contra Scandal,” a nexus of ...
Dancing With the Devil: Drug War Politics in Bolivia

Dancing With the Devil: Drug War Politics in Bolivia

Bolivian President Evo Morales has argued that the United States uses the drug war to advance its own political interests ...
Menace to Society: Drug Threatdown 2011

Menace to Society: Drug Threatdown 2011

The United States government’s recent “National Drug Threat Assessment 2011” targets international trafficking organizations even while it identifies domestic prescription ...
Biofuel (the New Banana) Republic

Biofuel (the New Banana) Republic

It is not surprising to hear that representatives of the U.S. State Department stationed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras believed since at ...
Medical & Military Malpractice: The U.S. Public Health Service in Guatemala

Medical & Military Malpractice: The U.S. Public Health Service in Guatemala

In the 1940s U.S. Public Health medical researchers conducted appalling experiments on vulnerable populations in Guatemala. After last week's convening ...
(Mis)educating the Youth

(Mis)educating the Youth

I wrote last week about the pharmaceutical industry’s aggressive promotion of Intellectual Property Rights as part of U.S. government negotiated ...
Will the Real International Criminals Please Stand Up?

Will the Real International Criminals Please Stand Up?

As the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies continue to aggressively protect and enhance the power and profits accruing to major ...
Beneath the Underdog: Drugs and Incarceration in the Americas

Beneath the Underdog: Drugs and Incarceration in the Americas

During a visit to Trinidad and Tobago in June, I had the privilege of spending time with Gordon Rohlehr, the ...
Drug War Delirium

Drug War Delirium

Over the past two weeks, U.S. media airways have been dominated by the sad spectacle of elected representatives’ refusal to ...
Trickle-Down Economics Confronts a New President in Peru

Trickle-Down Economics Confronts a New President in Peru

President Reagan’s justification for siphoning money out of the collective effort and into the pockets of the wealthy remains in ...
Challenging Prohibition & Pharmaceutical Power: From Coca to Marijuana

Challenging Prohibition & Pharmaceutical Power: From Coca to Marijuana

The struggle over the reach of international drug control continues. Having failed in an earlier attempt to amend the primary ...