On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

                               Free Software
                         Toni Prug, toni@irational.org
                                August 13, 2007

An Albanian woman writes about her experience with prostitution and drug dealing in Greece (defending her choices all the way), setting up a grassroots support organisation, and about NGOs in Albania as agents for the interests of centralised elites. This was first published in the Harm Reduction Communication newsletter, Summer 2001, but is still relevant considering the increasing presence of EU/NATO military forces and NGOs in the area given Kosovo's imminent declaration of independence.

Spiked-online column that describes mass surrender to the health police – or maybe just to middle class aesthetic prejudice – but falls far short of a suitable pitch of outrage.  The discontinued Bio-Power Digest calls on non-smokers everywhere to wear symbols of a Pledge to take the Filthy Habit up from July 1.   

Seeing through the smoking ban
All those countless No Smoking signs make a fitting epitaph to the Blair years in British politics, and a signpost to the future.
Mick Hume

J.J. King reviews Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, and New Eugenic Consciousness, Critical Art Ensemble (Autonomedia $8)

Sebastian Hacher discusses the latest phase of the War on Drugs in Bolivia, and explains its connections to the broader political strategies being deployed against the country’s people. Strategies for resistance such as road blocks and striking have produced potent results, portrayed by the liberal regime as a conspiratorial coup

In sad or melancholy moments, the coca leaf lulls away pain and gives to the eater joy and well-being.

Calls for legal heroin shooting galleries in the UK, writes Peter Carty, are the latest episode in a history of misguided attempts to stamp out global recreational opiate use

What do Wallpaper magazine and ecstatic clubbing not have in common?

Lining the walls were many people.