- Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
- Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
- Beyond the War on Drugs
Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
- Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Candy Machine
How Cocaine Took Over the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Cocaine is big business, and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps running it behind the scenes? Feiling traces cocaine's progress from legal ‘pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries like Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.
- Michael C. Chettleburgh
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
- The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
- Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
- Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2016
Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
- Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
- Gary Webb: Vindicated
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
- Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
- How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Mainly events in Europe.
- Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
- Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
- Narcoland
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
- Narcs Versus Big Pharma
Behind the Meth Curtain
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
- Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Shadow boxing in the drug ring
Resource Type: Article
The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
- Smoke and Mirrors
The Canadian Tobacco War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Describes Canada's stance and battle against tobacco. Cunningham explains the health movement and tactics to regulate the tobacco industry.
- Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
- The War Over Mangoes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- World evil with its roots in the North
Resource Type: Article
Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.
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