Criminologist and law lecturer Charlotte Walsh talks about freedom of thought, neurotechnologies, religious exceptions, and how the role human rights might play in the decriminalization of psychedelics.
Sarah Lazare – The Scandal of Chemical Weapons in U.S. Prisons
Originally launched as a tool of trench combat during World War I, tear gas has been used around the world over the past century to enforce colonial rule, quell popular protests and aid in ethnic cleansing of civilians. This “riot control agent” was banned as a “method of war” by the Chemical Weapons Convention, an arms control treaty that went …
John Pilger – Freeing Julian Assange: The Final Chapter
One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention — — the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations — has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden. After five years of fighting to clear his name …
Expanding Mind – Cognitive Liberty – 12.03.15
A talk with psychedelic freedom fighter Casey Hardison about human rights, doing time, and the good and bad sides of hedonism. https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/hardison_casey/hardison_casey.shtml
“Collective Psychopathology” And US Police State Methods
In February 2015, The Guardian published a couple of new stories about the connection between the Chicago police department “black site” at Homan Square and the Guantanamo prison where terror suspects have been kept as political prisoners without ever been charged. Neither the national media in the US nor the Chicago media organizations, including African-American, have pursued this story. Even …