Videos: Vanguard

After reporting from Mexico on the drug wars taking place there, I kept in touch with a local journalist from Juarez, Mexico's most violent city. This phone call was a follow up to news that I received about the gruesome beheading of another local journalist. For more information about the drug wars in Mexico, watch the Vanguard episode, Narco War Next Door: http://current.com/items/89845362/narco_war_next_door.htm

While filming in Juarez, Mexico, we visited the local jail where many criminals in Mexico's drug war are locked up. Because the situation has gotten so violent, we were limited in what we were able to film. For more information about the drug wars in Mexico, watch the Vanguard episode, Narco War Next Door: http://current.com/items/89845362/narco_war_next_door.htm

"Vanguard" correspondent Adam Yamaguchi follows the English Defence League for a protest against Islamic extremism in London, England.

Minister Benedict Osubor explains how religion and the church tries to help those who are coming to Italy from Africa and how those who fall into the drug trade, or 'the fast lane', are ruining their lives. For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/vanguard

Vanguard Correspondent Adrian Baschuk travels to the last remaining Communist state in the western hemisphere to see how hard life really is there and investigates whether or not there exists any possibility of regime change.

Vanguard presents: Remote Control War Criss-crossing America to uncover some of the trend lines in warfighting technology, Kaj Larsen investigates the issue of remote control warfare. ***Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series. Led by correspondents Laura Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel, Adam Yamaguchi and Kaj Larsen, Vanguard features enterprising reports from around the globe. It airs every Wednesday at 10pm on Current TV. And you can view all Vanguard stories by visiting current.com/vanguard.*** Channel guide: In the U.S. DIRECTV 358 Comcast Nationwide 107 Dish Network 196 Time Warner: NY 103 Time Warner: LA 142 Time Warner: Other Cities: check local listings AT&T U-verse Nationwide 189 Verizon FIOS 130 In the U.K. Sky 183 Virgin Media 155 In Italy Sky Italia 130

See why California is considered the marijuana growing capital of the U.S.

For young Americans, the U.S. recession is a major bummer on our bank accounts and future. Where can we look to for advice? Enter Argentina, a country that went through its own economic crisis in 2001, and where we might be able to learn a thing or two -- even if it is 5,000 miles away from Wall Street.

Vanguard New Season Premieres October 14th.

Fleeing from years of civil unrest, Somali refugees risk their lives, traveling through shark and pirate-infested waters to find relative peace in Yemen. In a follow up to their Emmy-nominated documentary from Somalia in 2006, Christof Putzel and Kaj Larsen return to the Horn of Africa to investigate one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

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The new season of the 'Vanguard' weekly series begins on Oct. 22 with this little question: Is the US already at war with Iran? View the full piece: http://current.com/items/89438469_america_s_secret_war In 'America's Secret War', Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains, she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women, and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has become the frontline of the US's secret war with Iran. ***Check out 'America's Secret War' on Wednesday, March 4 at 10 p.m. on Current TV.***

Mariana van Zeller looks at the impact of the youth involvement in the 2008 presidential election.

Adam Yamaguchi samples a variety of animal penises in a Beijing restaurant.

Long before the Iraq war, Muslim insurgents began fighting for independence in Kashmir, the only Muslim majority state in India. India sent in half a million troops and kept them there. 18 years later, there is still an insurgency.