Posted on 18 January 2010. Tags: "torture taxis", addicts, Afghanistan, Al Capone, alcohol, armies, Azerbaijan, Berlin, Bolivia, Brazil, britain, California, cannabis, Caribbean, Cesar Gaviria, CIA, coca bushes, coca leaves, Cocaine, Cochabamba, Colombia, corruption, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, drug dealers, drug war, Ecuador, Eliot Engel, Ernesto Zedillo, European Parliament, European Union, federal budgets, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, firearms, Gatwick, Germany, Gil Kerlikowske, government, Greece, Gulfstream II, gun control laws, Hungary, imprisonment, Iran-Contra affair, iraq, Israel, jet aircraft, jordan, Latin America, mainstream media, Marijuana, Mexico, Miami Herald, Mississippi, N9875A, narcotics, Nicaragua, Palestine, Police, President Evo Morales, President Felipe Calderón, President Rafael Correa, prohibition, Richard Nixon, Ronal Reagan, scandal, south america, Spain, state budgets, taxpayer, the wall street journal, United States, US Narcotics Officers, US Office of National Drug Control Policy, venezuela, violence, War on Drugs, Washington D.C.
US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’
After 40 years, Washington is quietly giving up on a futile battle that has spread corruption and destroyed thousands of lives Read the full story
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Posted on 13 December 2009. Tags: 1400, 15th century, Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Amazon, Amazon basin, Amazonia, Belém, Bolivia, Brazil, British Museum, Colin McEwan, Columbia, Denise Schaan, Egypt, Federal University of Pará, Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes, French Institute for Andean Studies, garden cities, geoglyphs, Google Earth, Inca, Lima, london, Madrid, Martti Pärssinen, Mesopotamia, Nasca geoglyphs, Peru, Portuguese, Spain, Spanish, Xingu
Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil’s border with Bolivia.
The traditional view is that before the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th century there were no complex societies in the Amazon basin – in contrast to the Andes further west where the Incas built their cities. Now deforestation, increased air travel and satellite imagery are telling a different story. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 October 2009. Tags: 2007, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia, Brazil, Burkina-Faso, Cameron, China, Djibouti, Douglas Griffiths, Egypt, Gabon, gaza, Gaza Strip, Geneva, Ghana, Hamas Militants, Holland, Human Rights Council, Hungary, Ibrahim Khraishi, India, Indonesia, International Criminal Court, Israel, Israel Radio, italy, Japan, jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, norway, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, south korea, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations, Uruguay, War Crimes Trials
The Palestinian Authority would not oppose the prosecution of Hamas militants on war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court, Israel Radio on Saturday quoted the PA’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva as saying. Read the full story
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