Tales From Earth, Inc. issues in the NY Times, Bloomberg, Guardian

Articles speaking to two crucial issues featured in Tales From Earth, Incorporated have appeared in recent newspapers including the New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg and the Guardian.

An op-ed called “The Other Border Problem: American Guns Going to Mexico” calls attention to the lucrative business of purchasing guns in U.S./Mexico border states and delivering them to cartels in Mexico, who of course in turn terrorize the Mexican people driving thousands out of the country in an effort to evade the violence brought on with use of these American weapons.  TFEI track “Cross the Border” also addresses this highly overlooked issue (which is due its time in the illegal immigration debate), written from the perspective of someone looking to get in on drug cartel profiteering:

Hey kid, wanna make some dough?/Just head down South towards Mexico
Get yourself set up with a nice gun shop/The sales are bound to never stop…
Come fuel the slaughter across the border…
Oh how many dead Mexicans will it take
To ensure massive profits from the sales you will make?

With reference to the subject matter of the song “Kimberley,” Bloomberg, USA Today and the Guardian have published articles on diamond industry leaders DeBeers’ new enterprise of selling diamonds produced in labs.  Considering the environmental impact of diamond mining and the “blood diamond” trade, this is excellent news.  “Kimberley” is written from the perspective of a child in Zimbabwe, orphaned by the Robert Mugabe dictatorship forced to work the mines of the Zimbabwean government.

Down in a hole deep inside of the Earth
Searching for diamonds of natural birth
That could be made quite conflict free
In the safe confines of a laboratory
Of equal beauty and composition
Without the need for ammunition