[…] time you learned more. The guys who run things – I mean the guys who really run things in Washington – are very interested in psychology, and drugs in particular. These people play hardball, Timothy. They want to use drugs for warfare, for espionage, for brainwashing, for control.” (p155) In May 1963 Pinchot told […]
[…] Reconciliation’s (an interfaith organisation committed to nonviolence) July 1998 report on Latin America. A history of the use of chemical weapons by the US in Panama, the drugs war and human rights. The Konformist http://www.konformist.com LA-based webzine edited by Robert Sterling. Approx 4 or 5 issues a month, covering a mixture of far-out conspiracy […]
[…] general magazine to have merged from the American radical/left since Ramparts. The January 1991 issue contained a 13 page interview with Alfred McKoy on the politics of drugs. McKoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Harper Row, 1972), the ground-breaking book which showed the CIA running opium for the Meo tribes they […]
[…] and the failure to hold the line in Afghanistan and Iraq on the other. October 20 saw important arrests in Italy of Pakistanis allegedly linked to the drugs trade routed from Afghanistan through Kosovo and Albania. () It was not a terrorist-related raid, but those arrested were allegedly radical in politics as well as […]
Colin Challen Vision Paperbacks, London, 1998, £7.99 It says something about this society of ours – and about the academics who make a living teaching what they call ‘politics’ – that this is the first book about the funding of the political party which has been in power for most of this century; and it … Read more
[…] link not be drawn between the many dumb decisions of a dumb ally in the wake of 9/11 and social collapse in the UK inner cities. Yet drugs and other illicit trades and the massive accumulation of capital in the hands of organised crime are absolutely central to the collapse of social order – […]
[…] bridges with the Republican Party. As the Democrats became radicalised by war in Vietnam, by environmentalism and feminism, by new sexual freedom and a permissive attitude towards drugs, the Republicans gained support from social conservatives and the evangelicals began what they saw as a crusade against godless hedonism and flagrant disregard for the divine […]
Horses for courses? Labour MP Denis MacShane used the hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of a […]
[…] suspects in 1971. Streatfield shows us that these programmes involved the UK as junior partners to the US; and that by 1970 most of the experiments with drugs and gizmos had apparently ended. The NATO countries’ scientists had abandoned their search for ‘mind control’ and had discovered that to break down most people all […]
Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish … Read more
