DRUGS & DRUG TRADE

  • Democracy Now! February 8, 2002

    Bush administration kicks off a multimillion dollar campaign linking illegal drug use to terrorism : GUESTS author LUIS RODRIQUEZ, about creating community in violent times : reporters on the front lines — Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl remains missing in Pakistan, journalist Robert Fisk makes a plea to Osama bin Laden to release his…

  • Hot Talk! – Saul Landau With Guest Sanho Tree

    HOT TALK! program with host SAUL LANDAU interviewing GUEST: SANHO TREE about the “War on Drugs”. Tree is Director of Drug Policy Project at Institute for Policy Studies, Wash., DC

  • Alexander Cockburn / Jeffrey St. Clair

    Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, authors of: Whiteout: the CIA, drugs, and the press [Verso, c. 1998] talk about their book (at Powells bookstore in Portland, Oregon on October 7th). Cockburn speaks (37 min.) about the role of the drug wars in social control by the powers that rule the national security state 49:30…

  • Democracy Now! February 4, 1999

    Voices in the Wilderness-The Human Toll of 8 Years of Sanctions in Iraq; The CIA’s Role in the War on Drugs |Voices in the Wilderness – Human Toll of 8 Years of Sanctions in Iraq The united Nations ordered its remaining American staff members in Iraq to leave this week after Baghdad warned that it…

  • Democracy Now! September 17, 1998

    Bankruptcy Act; Debate on the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act / Human Rights Informantion Act; Iran/Afghanistan Conflict |(14 Miutes) Bankruptcy Act A debate on the consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act, backed by corporate giants Mastercard and Visa. If passed, it will make it more difficult to declare fresh-start bankruptcy. GUEST: Phil Corwin, partner at Federal Legislation…

  • Democracy Now! September 10, 1997

    Congo Human Rights; Mandatory Minimums; In the Time of the Butterflies |(14 Minutes) Congo Human Rights Congolese President Laurent Kabila sent a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirming his commitment to the UN human rights mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo. GUEST: Reed Brody, human rights lawyer and one of three leaders…

  • Democracy Now! January 8, 1999

    Chief Justice William Rehnquist and His Gold Stripes; Snitches and Mandatory Sentencing |(6 Minutes) Chief Justice William Rehnquist and His Gold Stripes A look at the gold braids on Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s tobe. He started to wear them 5 years ago after seeing a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe”. A look…

  • Drugs and capitalism in the Black community / Michael Cetewayo Tabor.

    Members of the Black Panthers discuss the role of drugs in the Black community.