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      America's Drug Wars: Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism

      As of 2019, this country's prisons remained overcrowded with 430,900 people convicted of drug crimes, while drug offenders represented 46% of all those in federal penitentiaries.

      Alfred W. Mccoy
      Jul 06, 2021

      Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce "a new, all-out offensive" against drug abuse, which he denounced as "America's public enemy number one." He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack on "the sources of supply." The first battle in this new drug war would be fought in South Vietnam where, Nixon said, "a number of young Americans have become addicts as they serve abroad."

      While the president was declaring his war on drugs, I was stepping off a trans-Pacific flight into the searing tropical heat of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, to report on the sources of supply for the drug abuse that was indeed sweeping through the ranks of American soldiers fighting this country's war in Vietnam.

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      It's Time to End the War on Drugs Once and For All

      Nixon's War on Drugs turned out to be a war on people. President Biden should end it once and for all.

      Ellen Glover
      Jun 16, 2021

      Fifty years ago this month, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a "full scale attack" on drug use. It was the beginning of the War on Drugs.

      After generations of broken lives, broken families, and broken dreams, we must end it now.

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      Will Trump End Up In Prison?

      Will Trump End Up In Prison?

      Accountability for criminal Republican presidents can't happen soon enough.

      Thom Hartmann
      Apr 17, 2021

      The Biden administration on Thursday laid it right out in the open.

      It's time to seriously discuss a 60-year problem we've had with treasonous and illegitimate Republican presidents.

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