The global drug trade brings in profits of more than $300 billion a year. Where does all that money go?

Mark Karlin, editor of Buzz Flash at Truthout, writes that it serves the empire in several ways -- starting with the banks.

Photo by Mark Karlin

The guest is Portland author Anne Mendel, who discusses her debut novel, Etiquette for an Apocalypse.

It’s the 2020 Apocalypse and Sophie Cohen, former social worker turned neighborly drug dealer, must keep her family alive amid those pesky end of the world issues: starvation, earthquakes, plagues, gang violence and alas more starvation.She investigates a serial killing and takes down the sinister emerging power structure while learning to use a pizza box solar oven, bond with her chickens and blast tin cans from the perimeter fence with a Ruger 9MM.

It's the second day of the 25th Waterfront Blues Festival, a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. We'll be broadcasting live from Tom McCall Waterfront Park, simulcasting performances from two stages of the festival.

If you'd like to catch the performances live and in person, just bring at least 2 cans of food and $10 per person. Stop by the KBOO booth and say hi!

The schedule is subject to change, and additional acts may be announced.