Contents

• Laura Carlsen
  Mexico’s Anti-Drug War March Demands Far-Reaching Political Reforms

  “The March for Peace with Justice and Dignity marks a sea change in Mexican politics. A significant part of the population has demanded an end to the drug war, identifying the security strategy itself as a major part of the problem, not part of the solution.”

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• Martha Rosenberg
  Ask Your Doctor Ads – Hyping Pills, Hiking Premiums

  “Don’t think kids will outgrow mood problems either, says pharma. That erratic behavior is no doubt early mental illness that will become Worse if you don’t nip it in the bud.”

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• Farzana Versey
  Fashion, Fads and the Pharma Farce

  “It is ironic when large parts of the world suffer from malnutrition, we have a situation where women are encouraged to look malnourished to sell fancy clothes.”

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• Gideon Polya
  Post-9-11 Opiate Drug-related Deaths and US Imperialism

  “We could conclude that 94,000-128,000 Americans have died opiate drug-related deaths since 2001 linked to the US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.”

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• Dennis Chapman
  The War on Drugs: Open Letter to the British Parliament

  “Stimulant pills are being marketed now with even less knowledge of their safety than cocaine so it is not a matter of a good versus evil drug, it is a matter of a cheap and effective drug being held back over a patented ‘mood enhancer’ pill.”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  Transparency and Choice in a Post-totalitarian World

  “Pharmaceutical companies and criminal organisations have monopolised the drugs trade at the expense of the consumer, who is obliged to pay an exorbitant price for his dose.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Black Mesa Meditation (Essay)

  “Now came the horns of a painful dilemma: embrace the true meaning of the plant and change themselves to suit the medicine, or abandon the medicine and change the gods to suit themselves. As one might expect of an imperial-minded people faced with an existential crisis, they could be counted on to make the wrong choice.”

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• John Ripton
  Smoke and Mirrors: National Debt and Economic Recovery

  “If liberal economics and its supporting institutions continue to resist transformation, the world community is likely to enter a prolonged period of gross instability marked by naked competition for resources.”

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• Richard Greeman
  A Taxonomy of Capitalist Sharks

  “Some clever capitalist Sharks painted themselves Green; some even pretended to be Vegetarians the better to lull their Prey!”

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• Little Big Pine
  Black Mesa Meditation (Poetry)

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• Susan Pensak
  From “Azulejos; or, The Blue Far”, and Other Poems (Poetry)

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• David Sullivan
  Malik of Zubair (Poetry)

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