DTN Audio Podcast

Fri Phil Smith 7

Thu Phil Smith 6

Wed Phil Smith 5

Tue Phil Smith 4

Mon - Phil Smith 3

Sun Phil Smith 2

Sat Phil Smith reporter for StopTheDrugWar.org

(29:00) Guest: Phil Smith has served as writer and editor of the Drug War Chronicle newsletter since May 2000. He has reported from the opium fields of Afghanistan and the coca fields of Bolivia and Peru, as well as the US-Mexico border and the mean streets of North American cities from Vancouver to Washington, DC. Topics this show include exposing the world wide members of the drug cartel PLUS Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org new Deep Dive Into Drug War Profiteering.CARTEL: a coalition or cooperative arrangement between political parties intended to promote a mutual interest.Millions of cartel members lie for a living to include the DEA, most elected officials, 99.9% of cops, prosecutors, judges, urine testers, treatment providers, money launderers and banks, most media, preachers and especially physicians who know better but choose to go along to get along and thus choose to first do harm. Cowards, liars, all criminal cartel members who will never defend their madness.

(56:38} Guest: Phil Smith has served as writer and editor of the Drug War Chronicle newsletter since May 2000. He has reported from the opium fields of Afghanistan and the coca fields of Bolivia and Peru, as well as the US-Mexico border and the mean streets of North American cities from Vancouver to Washington, DC. Topics this show include exposing the world wide members of the drug cartel PLUS Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org new Deep Dive Into Drug War Profiteering. CARTEL: an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.HISTORICAL - a coalition or cooperative arrangement between political parties intended to promote a mutual interest.Millions of cartel members lie for a living to include the DEA, most elected officials, 99.9% of cops, prosecutors, judges, urine testers, treatment providers, money launderers and banks, most media, preachers and especially physicians who know better but choose to go along to get along and thus choose to first do harm. Cowards, liars, all criminal cartel members who will never defend their madness.

This week on Century of Lies it\'s the first part of my conversation with the writer, activist, and regional NORML organizer Chris Goldstein.

Fri Howard Wooldrige 7

Thu Howard Wooldrige 6

Wed Howard Wooldrige 5

Tue Howard Wooldrige 4

Mon - Howard Wooldrige 3

Sun - Howard Wooldrige 2

Sat - Howard Wooldrige Policing for Profit

Howard Wooldrige recently gave a talk to Grover Norquists gathering about Policing for Profit on US highways.Howard heads up CItizens Opposing Prohibition and pays weekly visits to the US Congress to speak to our elected officials about how miserrable the drug war has become over the decades. Howard travels extensively to share the truth about this eternal war on logic.

Howard Wooldrige recently gave a talk to Grover Norquists gathering about Policing for Profit on US highways.Howards Vision Statement:Envision an America where there are no drug dealers on sidewalks selling drugs, shooting each other and destroying neighborhoods.Imagine a world where all drugs are sold in a state-regulated store by a clerk making 12 dollars an hour.Picture a world where al-Qaeda and other terrorists do not make billions guarding the drug trade and selling drugs.Think of an America where felony crime is reduced by half which allows the police to focus on the deadly DUI, the child predator and other public safety threats.Consider the prospect of redirecting the 72 billion tax dollars currently spent chasing non-violent drug users & their suppliers.See a world where, if one day you or a loved one has a drug problem, you see a doctor not a judge.This world is possible when we find the courage to end Modern Prohibition.

This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and the Drug War. In the Philippines, former Senator Leila de Lima was imprisoned for nearly seven years by the Duterte regime, framed for crimes she didn\'t commit because she spoke out against human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings there. She spoke recently on Ending Extrajudicial Drug War Killings and Extending Transitional Justice for Victims. Plus, we hear from Angela McBride, Executive Managing Director of the South African Network of People who Use Drugs and Palani Narayanan, Director of the Drug Policy Program at the Malaysian AIDS Foundation, on addressing human rights challenges related to the lack of, and the unequal access to, treatment and harm reduction.