A UN official claims that money from the illegal drug trade saved the banking system during the height of the economic crisis:
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was...
While psychology is riven with conflicts over the profession’s role in interrogations, torture, and detainee abuse, and anthropology is fighting over military (mis)use of Human Terrain Systems counterinsurgency efforts, psychiatry, too, has its civil...
TIME covers the controversy in anthropology around the military’s use of social scientists in its Human Terrain Systems program. Unlike the situation in psychology, where the American Psychological Association is totally in bed with the...
The former Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate is not afraid to criticize this President’s folly:
A sharp turn toward another Vietnam
By George McGovern
As a U.S. senator during the 1960s, I agonized over the badly mistaken war in Vietnam....
This Sunday you have the opportunity to see the amazing film The People Speak on the History channel. The film is based upon Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. I saw a preview and live dramatization of sections in Boston and it’s a...
