http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:33:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/feb-2008-going-dutch/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/feb-2008-going-dutch/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:05:05 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/feb-2008-going-dutch/ In this issue, Briarpatch's intrepid contributors "go Dutch" to make the case for cannabis coffeeshops in Canada, brave the front-line violence of Guatemala's recent elections, mark the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty with South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, assess the fighting words of shock troops Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein, and still make it home in time for dinner. To subscribe or order a copy of this issue, call 1-866-431-5777 or visit our secure online shop.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/feb-2008-going-dutch/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/retracing-our-steps/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/retracing-our-steps/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:21:53 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/retracing-our-steps-south-sudanese-refugees-prepare-to-return-home-while-land-mine-activists-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-the-ottawa-treaty/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/retracing-our-steps/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/a-dove-with-two-right-wings/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/a-dove-with-two-right-wings/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:11:53 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/a-dove-with-two-right-wings-power-struggles-in-the-2007-guatemalan-elections/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/a-dove-with-two-right-wings/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:55:08 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man-the-dutch-decriminalization-debate-moves-to-the-back-door/ “Here, we have Dutch cannabis, Moroccan hash, and Lebanese red hash.” Hendrik Jan van Katwijk gestures to the neatly packaged, labelled, rolled and ready-to-smoke cannabis products that are his stock-in-trade. He is owner of the marijuana coffeeshop Pas Op! (Watch Out!) in the picturesque municipality of Schiedam on the outskirts of Rotterdam. Coffeeshops like Pas Op! are now at the centre of a national debate about legalizing the growing of cannabis. Though the sale of marijuana through coffeeshops has been quasi-legal in the Netherlands for 30 years, the “backdoor” supply of the drug has remained illegal.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/review-of-blackwater-and-the-shock-doctrine/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/review-of-blackwater-and-the-shock-doctrine/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:24:43 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/review-of-blackwater-and-the-shock-doctrine/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/review-of-blackwater-and-the-shock-doctrine/feed/