Articles by Helen Redmond

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Apologize Then Call It a Day: Big Banks and Drug Money
Helen Redmond - CounterPunch, 7 Jan 2013

Take responsibility, apologize, pay a fine for your drug crimes and then call it a day. Go home to family who will forgive you for doing business with so-called “narco-terrorists.” Prison time? Felony record? Asset forfeiture? No. Not for drug trafficking executives of laundromat/banks that are “too big to fail” or jail. Ending the war on drugs would not only save human lives and billions of dollars, it would free up law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute banks whose real crimes are far worse than laundering drug money.

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The Drug War Profiteers
Helen Redmond – Socialist Worker, 26 Nov 2012

A new documentary that exposes the racism and greed of the war on drugs–and the politicians and corporations who profit from it. The House I Live In should cause fresh outrage at the 40-year-long war on drugs in the U.S.. Eugene Jarecki, the award-winning director of Why We Fight, has made a gut-punch of a documentary that humanizes the victims of the drug war.

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Forty Years of Drug War Failure
Helen Redmond – Socialist Worker, 13 Jun 2011

THE WAR on drugs in the U.S. turned 40 years old this year, but there’s nothing to celebrate. No victory has been declared, and there is no exit strategy. The U.S. imprisons 2.3 million people, more than any other country in the world. According to the Sentencing Project, in 2008, drug offenders made up more than half of the inmates in federal prisons.

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