>From the right wing Independent Institute: For decades, the U.S. government has waged a relentless "war" on the use of marijuana, opiates, and other substances. Yet, illicit drugs are today more plentiful than ever! More and more people are now asking, "How could this be?" and "What are the consequences to us of the drug war?" I am delighted to invite you to attend the upcoming Independent Policy Forum reception and seminar, "The War on Drugs: Who Is Winning? Who Is Losing?" featuring best-selling author and columnist ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, co-authors of the book, WHITEOUT; and JONATHAN MARSHALL (former Economics Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle) and PETER DALE SCOTT (Professor, U. of California, Berkeley), co-authors of the widely acclaimed book, COCAINE POLITICS. http://independent.org/tii/forums/000621ipf.html The program will be held the evening of June 21st, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Independent Institute's conference center in Oakland, California. For your review, I am adding below an invitation with further details on the program. Since seating is limited, please make your reservations as soon as possible. For further information, please contact me or the Institute's Events Coordinator, Ms. Lynn Caldeiro, at 510-632-1366 X118. We hope to see you on June 21. Sincerely, David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 95621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.independent.org ***************************************** You are cordially invited to attend . . . "The War on Drugs: Who Is Winning? Who Is Losing?" Reception and Seminar-Debate The Independent Policy Forum Sponsored by The Independent Institute And, receive a copy of either one of the books with your admission in attending: WHITEOUT: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Or COCAINE POLITICS: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 21, 2000 For decades, the U. S. government has waged a relentless "war" on the use of marijuana, opiates, and other substances. Yet, illicit drugs are today more plentiful than ever! Global in scope and costing untold billions of dollars, this war has produced mandatory bank deposit disclosures, government surveillance, civil asset forfeiture, over-crowded prisons, encryption software restrictions, rampant police and political corruption, and the wholesale trampling of constitutional liberties by the DEA, CIA, IRS, INS, FBI, and other agencies. This upcoming Independent Policy Forum will critically examine who actually benefits and who loses from the failed "War on Drugs." SPEAKERS (please see bios below*): Alexander Cockburn, columnist, The Nation; co-editor, CounterPunch Jonathan Marshall, former economics editor, San Francisco Chronicle Peter Dale Scott, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor, CounterPunch RECEPTION: 6:30 p.m. Wine courtesy of Robert Mondavi Winery. Chocolate confections courtesy of See's Candies. PROGRAM: 7:00 p.m. RSVP (limited seating): $25.00 per person, includes 1 copy of either of the books, WHITEOUT or COCAINE POLITICS (price includes California sales tax). Copies can be reserved for pick-up at the door or are available for shipping (please add $3/book shipping/handling). OR $10 per person ($7 per person for Independent Institute Members) Ms. Lynn Caldeiro Events Coordinator THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 510-632-1366 Fax: 510-568-6040 FOR MAP AND DIRECTIONS, SEE WEBSITE AT: http://www.independent.org/tii/tii_info/about.html#map From the South: Go north on Route 880 and exit at Hegenberger before the Oakland Coliseum. Turn left onto overpass and take Hegenberger west toward the Oakland Airport. Go straight through 3 traffic lights, then turn right at Francesco's Restaurant onto Pardee Drive. The Independent Institute is located on the left just past Federal Express, at the corner of Pardee and Swan Way. Free parking. From the North: Go south on Route 880 and take Hegenberger exit near the Oakland Coliseum. Turn right on Hegenberger. Go through 2 additional traffic lights then turn right at Francesco's Restaurant onto Pardee Drive. The Independent Institute is located on the left just past Federal Express, at the corner of Pardee and Swan Way. Free Parking. Praise for WHITEOUT: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press: "A solid, pitiless piece of muckraking, Cockburn and St. Clair raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive government agency in a democratic society." -- SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE "A probing examination of the CIA's chilling history of coddling major drug traffickers, gangsters and Nazi psychopaths." -- PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE Praise for COCAINE POLITICS: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America: "For the evidence that narcotics...have been instruments of U.S. foreign policy, you simply have to read COCAINE POLITICS. This, one of the most enlightening books of the year, will redefine your usage of the silly term 'drug war.'" -- CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Washington Editor, Vanity Fair "COCAINE POLITICS tells the story of how elements of our own government went to work with narcotics traffickers, and then fought to suppress the truth about what they had done. The ways and means by which U.S. government officials joined forces with cocaine criminals, and then engaged in a largely-successful cover-up to hide the truth, are meticulously documented by Marshall and Scott, making COCAINE POLITICS essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the real Iran/Contra story." -- JONATHAN WINER, Counsel, U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics * ALEXANDER COCKBURN, born and raised in Ireland, is a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, co-editor of CounterPunch, and columnist for The Nation. He graduated with honors from Oxford University in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language. After two years as an editor at the London-based Times Literary Supplement, he worked at the New Left Review and the New Statesman. A permanent resident of the U.S. since 1973, Cockburn wrote for many years for The Village Voice about the press and politics. Since then, he has contributed to many publications including The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal (where he had a regular column from 1980 to 1990). In addition to WHITEOUT, he is the author of the books, Corruptions of Empire, The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (with Susanna Hecht), Nighwatch over Nature, The Golden Age Is In Us, Washington Babylon (with Ken Silverstein), Encounters with the Sphinx, Idle Passion, Smoke, and Five Days that Shook the World (with Jeffrey St. Clair). JONATHAN MARSHAL is former economics editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he also authored the weekly column, "On Economics." He currently serves as director of public relations for Yipes Communications, and he was formerly director of technology practice at Burson-Marsteller, director of corporate communications at AirTouch Communications, editorial page editor at the Oakland Tribune, editorial writer at the San Jose Mercury News, and associate editor at Inquiry magazine He received his bachelor's degree in history with distinction and honors (Phi Beta Kappa) from Stanford University and master's degree in American history with honors from Cornell University. In addition to COCAINE POLITICS, he is the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War, Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency, and Covert Operations, The Iran-Contra Connection (with Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter), and he contributed to the award-winning book, Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government Control. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Infoworld, PC World, Mother Jones, National Review, California Lawyer, American Enterprise, Stanford Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Journal of American History, Journal of Policy History, Pacific Research, and Middle East Report. His many awards include Best Censored Stories of 1994; Contra Costa Press Club Award for editorial writing; 1984, 1986, and 1988 Thomas M. Storke Awards (World Affairs Council of Northern California); Best Editorial Award (California Newspaper Publishers Association); Mencken Award (Free Press Association); Michel Sicca Award (Cornell University); and People for the American Way Award for his editorial series on government secrecy. PETER DALE SCOTT, a former Canadian diplomat, is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA). In addition to COCAINE POLITICS, his prose books include The War Conspiracy, The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection, The Iran-Contra Connection (with Jonathan Marshall), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, and Deep Politics Two. Professor Scott's chief poetry books are his trilogy, Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror, Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse, and Minding the Darkness; and Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems. JEFFREY ST. CLAIR is co-editor of the online magazine, CounterPunch, and co-author with Alexander Cockburn of the books, WHITEOUT and Five Days that Shook the World. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
