Information is beautiful

Information is beautiful…if you don’t believe it, take a peek at this wonderfully clean graphic illustrating the timeline and scale of global scare stories:  http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/mountains-out-of-molehills/

On a different note, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia – CIA complicity in the global drug trade (1972) is a difficult-to-find but frequently referenced non-fiction book by Alfred W. McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The book exposes the systematic exploitation of the opium & heroin trades as a matter of policy by world powers.