Congressional Issues 2010
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY
The International War on Drugs

• repeal the Anti–Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 and all legislation requiring the United States to certify drug-source countries’ cooperation in counter-narcotics efforts,
• declare an end to the international war on drugs, and
• remove U.S. trade barriers to the products of developing countries.

Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Part 1 Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Part 2: Murder on the Streets of Washington Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Part 3: A Deadly Bureaucracy American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (War and Peace Library): Peter Dale Scott

The "War on Drugs" is being fought on two fronts.

• Domestically, the government is at war with the Constitutional rights of millions of American citizens.
• Internationally, the government is at war with the anti-imperialist vision of America's Founding Fathers, as well as the basic human rights of millions of peasants in several foreign nations.
  • Foreign Policy: “The Global War on Drugs Can Be Won”
    • "No, it can’t. A 'drug-free world,' which the United Nations describes as a realistic goal, is no more attainable than an 'alcohol-free world'—and no one has talked about that with a straight face since the repeal of Prohibition in the United States in 1933. Prohibition has failed—again. Instead of treating the demand for illegal drugs as a market, and addicts as patients, policymakers the world over have boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates that would frighten Al Capone."
      FOREIGN POLICY is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • The International War on Drugs (Cato, 2004) | The International Drug War (Cato, 2007)
  • Drug Policy (Foreign) (Cato)
  • Perilous Panacea- The Military in the Drug War
  • Declaring an Armistice in the International Drug War
  • "Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Policy Analysis no. 631, February 2, 2009

Among the more important countries where your tax dollars are undermining your values:

• Columbia
  • Sticking with an Andean Disaster - AlanBock
  • AntiWar.com - columbia + drugs
  • The Drug War vs. Land Reform in Peru
  • Plan Colombia: Should We Escalate the War on Drugs?
  • Plan Colombia- The Drug War's New Morass,
  • Plan Colombia- Washington's Latest Drug War Failure,
  • Bush Gives Occidental Petroleum a Hand
  • A Losing Battle in Columbia
• Afghanistan
  • Unsavory Bedfellows: Washington's International Partners in the War on Drugs
  • Cockburn and St. Clair: The Politics of Afghan Opium
  • Opium Connection US - Afghanistan
• Southeast Asia
  • Interview with Alfred McCoy - re Heroin and the CIA
  • The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
  • Politics of Heroin - Alfred McCoy Interview

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