The UK government's response to a petition which garnered 200,000 signatures calling for legalising cannabis is nothing short of anti-science.
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It was just seven years ago that the DEA left Bolivia — and only three years after that, progress was finally made. Here's how:
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Richard Grove asked Lyn Ulbricht why her son Ross was denied a fair trial… her answers provide a clarion call for all who love, value and appreciate FREEDOM. Ross’s case includes precedents which adversely affect all of US, so in truth, his absence of freedom is ours as well. If Ross isn’t Free, We’re not Free. Would you like to […]
Gary Webb was an American Hero. A modern day muckraker with true grit; he was a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author of the densely researched, well documented, passionately argued, acronym-laden 548-page tome “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion”. Webb began his career on newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards and building a […]
By Jay Stanley | ACLU | April 8, 2015 In 2011, for the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s declaration of America’s “War on Drugs,” I wrote a roundup of some of the ways in which the War on Drugs has eroded privacy. Yesterday’s news about the DEA’s enormous program to collect Americans’ call records is […]
I was in Afghanistan twice, both times for extended stays, the first being in 1969. Over the years, I've written a few disparate posts about it on my travel blog but 45 years later, I'm still processing the Afghan experience and trying to make some sense out of it. I always recall that my initial thought was that I wasn't just driving my VW van across space-- Europe, Turkey, Iran and into Afghanistan-- but across time as well. There was always a distinct feeling that it wasn't 1969; it was more like 969.
When the young computer staffers at the Mercury News’s fledgling Mercury Center division posted the story on the paper’s new Internet site, they also removed the hocus pocus mystery of “journalism” that the major media had long fed the public.
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“The only way you’re going to do effective journalism is to be truly independent,” Webb once said. “It’s a difficult thing to do, but [investigative journalists] George Seldes and I.F. Stone did it. There’s no reason modern-day journalists can’t do it too. You don’t get 401-Ks and health benefits, but at least you get to tell the truth.”
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There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie “All the President’s Men,” which celebrates the exploits of the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
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Gary Webb (1955-2004), the investigative journalist who reported cocaine trafficking by the CIA in 1996, is portrayed in the motion picture, Kill the Messenger, by Jeremy Renner which is released this month. Gary Webb was a founding professor of the School of Authentic Journalism and an editor at Narco News Here is an introduction to … … Continue reading →
