Op-Ed Contributors
What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN
Published: December 22, 2022
HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency�s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions. Agency officials told us that they had concluded on their own that the original draft included no classified material, but that they had to bow to the White House. [more]
Flynt Leverett is a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Hillary Mann, a former Foreign Service officer, participated in the United States discussions with Iran from 2023 to 2003.
The Other 'War' We Keep On Losing
NEAL PEIRCE COLUMN
� 2006 Washington Post Writers Group
THE OTHER 'WAR' WE KEEP ON LOSING
By Neal Peirce
Pick your week or month, the evidence keeps rolling in to show
this country's vaunted "war on drugs" is as destructively misguided as
our cataclysmic error in invading Iraq.
There are 2.2 million of Americans are behind bars, another 5
million on probation or parole, the Justice Dept. reported Nov. 30. We
exceed Russia and Cuba in incarcerations per 100,000 people; in fact no
other nation comes close. The biggest single reason for the expanding
numbers? Our war on drugs -- a quarter of all sentences are for drug
offenses, mostly non-violent.
So has the "war" worked? Has drug use or addiction declined?
Clearly not.
You Tube 'Free Hugs' Video
Greetings-
Take a few minutes if you can to view the beginning, the acceptance, the prohibition and the successful signature campaign, inspired by Juan Mann, to overturn the prohibition of free hugs. The Sickpuppies, "All the Same" lyrics, "I don't care and I wouldn't dare to fix the twist in you..." and "I'll take you for who you are, if you take me for everything" speaks volumes about love.
Please take a look and then share it with a friend.
love and peace,
-jini
You Tube - Free Hugs Video
Free Hugs Campaign
A Drug War Carol
A Drug War Carol in English, French, Spanish and Porguegese
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