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Election Results: The Next Ten Years

November 9, 2016 Comments Off

– The Morning After – The election of Trump and the continued Republican control of both Congress and Senate guarantee that the rich will continue to get richer at the expense of the shrinking middle class --->> read more -->>

The War on Drugs Is a Failure – The Gregory Brothers’ video

April 20, 2013 Comments Off

Why waste endless words on this topic? I stumbled on this video, “The Drug War Is a Failure” by the Gregory Brothers via the New York Times. While poking about on YouTube I found more --->> read more -->>

drug-spending-v-addiction from Atlantic Monthly

Our Longest War – The War on Drugs – more data on its futility

April 15, 2013 Comments Off

I have noted here several times earlier about America’s longest war – the War on Drugs. Here is a graphic that displays the complete failure of our policies: Share this:TweetLike this:Like Loading...

Parallels and Prescience – on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”

September 12, 2011 Comments Off

Having successfully avoided much of the national moment for our politicians to blather on about the true meaning of 9/11, I was struck this morning by parallel between our “War on Terror” and our longest --->> read more -->>

America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy

June 12, 2011 Comments Off

Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Last week this commission released its report, “War on Drugs“. This once again brings into focus our longest war, Nixon’s War on Drugs. Here are the first --->> read more -->>

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Just Another Cost of Doing Business? – Pfizer’s $2.3 billion penalty and fine

September 4, 2009 Comments Off

Is $2.3 billion really a lot of money? The Obama administration is touting the action taken this week against Pfizer for illegal promotion of several of its drugs. The $2.3 billion sounds like a lot --->> read more -->>