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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
As the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies continue to aggressively protect and enhance the power and profits accruing to major ...