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War on Drugs AlterLinks Topic Index Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015 The Kingpin Strategy Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure. 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. 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. Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs" The Real Crime is the War Itself Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict Resource Type: Article A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle. 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-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders. Drug War Winners and Losers Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism." 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You) Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'. Grass Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 1999 Grass, narrated by actor and pot advocate Woody Harrelson, is entertaining activism, showing the serious history of marijuana in the United States, starting from the turn of the century, when anti-marijuana laws were passed to control the Mexicans in Texas. The focus is on the legacy of the first Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry J. Anslinger, who created the war on drugs to build a personal power base. How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies. The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism. 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. The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media. 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. 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. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible. Rogue State A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War. The Will of the People Doesn’t Mean Jack Shit to the Drug Warriors Gangsters With Federal Pensions Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The DEA vs. voter-approved marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.

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