1. Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
   Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
2. Beyond Sovereignty
   Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
3. Beyond the War on Drugs
   Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
4. The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1998   Published: 2014
   Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
5. The CIA's Greatest Hits
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
6. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
   Against The Current vol. 135
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
7. Drug War Winners and Losers
   Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
8. Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2003   Published: 2014
   Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
9. Gary Webb: Vindicated
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
10. Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
11. How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    
12. Legalize It!
    Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
13. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
14. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
    Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
    Resource Type: Book
    Mainly events in Europe.
15. Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
16. Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
17. Narcoland
    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
18. Narcs Versus Big Pharma
    Behind the Meth Curtain
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
    The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
19. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
    Refugees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
20. Public Housing Redesign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
21. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
22. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
23. Shadow boxing in the drug ring
    Resource Type: Article
    The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
24. Smoke and Mirrors
    The Canadian Tobacco War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Describes Canada's stance and battle against tobacco. Cunningham explains the health movement and tactics to regulate the tobacco industry.
25. Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
26. Wall Street's Role in Narco-Trafficking
    "Business is Booming"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels.
27. The War Over Mangoes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
28. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
29. World evil with its roots in the North
    Resource Type: Article
    Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.

Experts on Drogenhandel in the Sources Directory

1. African Union
2. Central American Integration System
3. Collective Security Treaty Organization
4. Economic Community of West African States
5. International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
6. Organization of American States
7. Organization of the Islamic Conference
8. World Customs Organization