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DRUG WAR CAPITALISM AUTHOR ON WBAI'S MORNING SHOW

Monday, December 15, 2014   12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

Dawn Paley, a Canadian journalist, offers a transformative view of the US war on drugs in the Western Hemisphere (with the exclusion of Canada as a targeted nation because it is a neoliberal partner of the United States in exploitation). Her new book, Drug War Capitalism, is a sweeping, exhaustively detailed analysis that reveals the real goals of the US-led and funded militarization south of the border in the name of destroying drug cartels. As Paley writes, "This war is about control over territory and society [and market share, cheap labor, mineral rights and profits], much more so than it is about cocaine or marijuana." Paley spoke with Chrsity Thornton on WBAI's Morning Show on Monday about the book, US policy, and the situation in Mexico.

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