'I'm a scholar not a terrorist'
Article Abstract:
An analysis of the impact the tightening of visa restrictions in the United States is having on the free exchange of ideas is made in the light of the refusal of a visa to Dora Maria Tellez, who was to take up a position as the Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor of Latin American studies at Harvard University's Divinity School before her application for a visa was refused. Tellez, who was a hero of the Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua, contends that the current US Administration is applying the term terrorist to anybody that it perceives as a political opponent and that the US often acts hypocritically by supporting organisations, such as the Contras in Nicaragua, that everybody else regards as terrorists.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
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Issues relating to attempts to curb the cannabis trade and the use of cannabis are examined from the point of view that the history of these attempts is based on shaky science and imperial politics. It is argued that an examination of the history of the inclusion of cannabis in international drugs treaties may offer an intriguing insight into the British Empire in its decline, it is not clear whether such an examination provides much evidence that the international system of cannabis control was clearly thought-out or well founded, nor does it offer much reason for governments to listen to the opinions of the United Nations on the matter.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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...believe drug prohibition is futile and should be scrapped
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The downside to the current "war" on drugs are analysed in the light of the publication of the "After the War on Drugs: Options for Control" report by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. It is argued that current drug policy is failing and that a more sensible option would be legalisation, which would allow for control to be implemented over drug purity while the trade itself would be taken out of the hands of organised crime.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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