How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored.
A soldier guards marijuana that is being incinerated in Tijuana,...
April 11th, 2011 | Social Insight | Read More
Time for Change
In 1998 the UN declared: “a drug-free world, we can do it!” In reality, we cannot.
The War on Drugs has failed. According to all available indices, it is no longer defendable. Vast expenditure on drug law enforcement has resulted in increasing levels of overall drug-use and lowered drug prices....
April 11th, 2011 | Drug Policy | Read More
Gold Farming: Virtual Slavery?
It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him. The screen showed a lightly...
March 28th, 2011 | Social Insight | Read More
Time for a New Convention?
War on drugs has failed, say former heads of MI5, CPS and BBC
The “war on drugs” has failed and should be abandoned in favour of evidence-based policies that treat addiction as a health problem, according to prominent public figures including former heads of MI5 and the Crown Prosecution...
March 28th, 2011 | Drug Policy | Read More
Hackerville: How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central
Three hours outside Bucharest, Romanian National Road 7 begins a gentle ascent into the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. Meadowlands give way to crumbling houses with chickens in the front yard, laundry flapping on clotheslines. But you know you’ve arrived in the town of Râmnicu Vâlcea when...
February 14th, 2011 | Social Insight | Read More
Deers of Perception
These reindeer have been fed a mushroom that makes their urine hallucinogenic. Or have they? Sam Williams visits Carsten Höller’s new ‘scientific experiment’
What could be more festive than spending a night locked in an art gallery with a dozen reindeer and a fridge full of psychedelic...
January 28th, 2011 | Health & Happiness | Read More
WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi ‘death squad’ trained by UK government
Rapid Action Battalion, accused of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, received training from UK officers, cables reveal
The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a “government death squad”, leaked US embassy cables...
December 22nd, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
A Police Chief with a Difference
Kiran Bedi has a surprising resume. Before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service, she managed one of the country’s toughest prisons — and used a new focus on prevention and education to turn it into a center of learning and meditation.
Before she retired in 2007, Kiran...
December 16th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Wikileaks’ aim to defeat “Authoritarian Conspiracy”
The following is an interesting analysis (by ‘zunguzungu’) of a text by Wikileaks leader Julian Assange, probably written around 2006.
See the paper: State and Terrorist Conspiracies
For additional analysis, see here.
By Michel Bauwens for the P2P Foundation
Analysis:
(nearly quoted in full)
“Most...
December 14th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Can Dope give us Hope?
The ban on hallucinogens is holding back vital research into their medical benefits, says Jake Wallis Simons.
Last week, the news took on a decidedly trippy tinge. First, Professor David Nutt, sacked as an adviser to the Labour government for criticising its policy on drugs, sparked controversy...
December 14th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
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