Drastic Frivol 1 Kindle not moving, no surprise

Counting total sales of my Kindle Publication total - comes to very few little. At this rate (ha ha) I will get a commission from Amazon at about the time I retire (or rather never.) Time to promote the book (ha ha). I'd rather work on Drastic Frivol 2.

My coauthor has done a great job of stocking venues in the bay area that carry zines with Drastic Frivol 1 - Dog Eared Books, Green Apple, City Lights Books. I've dropped some off as I travel - in Vancouver, Chicago, Oakland. Mostly I've given them away to friends and family.

I have been reading a lot recently, mostly on the European economic troubles and their social and political consequences, and on human right developments related to Africa and the middle east due to turbulent events in the last two years. The Human Rights Watch 2012 Report has an enormous amount of material on these regions.

There was a great (and scary) article in Le Monde Diplomatique: Drugs: the alternative economy of West Africa. This concerns  destabilization of weak states, and how this leads to international exploitation. Specifically, in West Africa a sphere of influence now exists in which narcotics exporters from South America provide a major economic and political dynamic.