Spies on acid

Mitch Perry


The vast majority of early LSD research was sponsored by
the CIA’s MKULTRA program – acting through the Macy
Foundation among others.

"[LSD] had no potential whatsoever as a truth drug, but they continued to use it and even use it today at Guantanamo and other black sites mainly to frighten people and scare the hell out of them and throw them off balance."

Beginning after World War II and escalating through the early 1950s, the U.S. government launched a multimillion-dollar series of experiments in mind control and behavior modification.

It wasn't until the mid-1970s that Americans learned of such programs, which went by the names of Bluebird, ARTICHOKE and, most notably, MK/ULTRA. That's when a commission led by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a subsequent Senate investigation revealed what our government had been up to.

In December of 2000 in this newspaper (then known as Weekly Planet), reporters H. P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly published a lengthy investigation that went beyond government reports. "The Strange Story of Frank Olson" explored the fate of a biochemist working for the U.S. Army who reportedly fell from a hotel window in New York City in November of 1953, after he had been dosed with LSD by the CIA.

Now, nearly a decade later, H.P. "Hank" Albarelli Jr. has published a book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, that he says was inspired by the positive reaction to the Planet story.

In the book, the author -- a resident of Indian Rocks Beach -- weaves a fascinating tale about the CIA's mind control programs. Albarelli told CL last month that he was inspired to write about Olson by the 1979 book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, in which author John Marks used data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to document the CIA's use of LSD on unwitting subjects.


El odio que no se atreve a decir su nombre

Mario Pecheny

Argentina: A propósito del informe de la Universidad Austral “Matrimonio homosexual y adopción por parejas del mismo sexo”

Hoy es inaceptable defender la quema de brujas y homosexuales en la hoguera, la inferioridad femenina, el genocidio de los judíos, la esclavitud de los negros o el apartheid. Por supuesto que podrían encontrarse datos y pensarse argumentos denigratorios para las mujeres, los judíos y los negros, y hasta comentarlos por lo bajo o no tan bajo. Pero una institución como el Senado no se atrevería a recibir 177 páginas escritas como parte del enriquecimiento de sus debates. Diría: por más que exhiban profusión de datos y presenten argumentos, están basados en el odio, y esto es inaceptable.

Sin embargo, el Senado recibió un texto de la Universidad Austral, que publicó en junio de 2010 bajo el título de “Matrimonio homosexual y adopción por parejas del mismo sexo”. Un texto de 177 páginas, cuyo subtítulo afirma que es un “Informe de estudios científicos y jurídicos y experiencia en otros países”. Pero no, no es un informe científico. Son 177 páginas que explican por qué hay vidas condenadas a ser menos dignas que otras.


Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government

Stephen Lendman

An April 2010 Pew Research Center (PRC) for the People & Press study and others report growing public anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" - wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials.

PRC found nearly 80% of Americans don't trust government to do the right thing, the highest distrust level in half a century, this writer's April 28 article, titled "Growing Public Anger in America," discussing its findings, accessed through THIS link.

People want help when they most need it, but aren't getting it, privilege always trumping the public interest, getting more extreme in America, Canada, and throughout Europe, a prescription for greater outrage, perhaps fury for beneficial change.

It bears watching as the deepening global depression plays out, throwing millions more to the wolves, abandoned by fiscal harshness, governments protecting business, not their people.

On December 9, 2005, in better times, New York Times writer Claudia Deutsch headlined, "New Surveys Show That Big Business Has a PR Problem," saying:

"More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it," according to pollsters, researchers, and corporate bosses feeling the heat, yet "bent on destroying the environment, cooking the books and lining their own pockets" ad infinitum in good and bad times.

Prior to public knowledge about Wall Street banksters, corporate scandals outing Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and other company executives fueled growing anger and distrust, management consultant Michael Hammer saying:

"There is a sense that business is a zero-sum game, that if companies are making a lot of money, it must be coming out of someone else's pocket."


Netanyahu Unmasked

Justin Raimondo

In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call on a group of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel’s Channel 10, and it is a blockbuster. At one point, Bibi is telling the widows that the Palestinians “think they will break us,” but don’t worry, ladies, Bibi has a plan:

“To hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to be borne, now. A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority. To bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing…

“Woman: Wait a moment, but then the world will say ‘how come you’re conquering again?’

“Netanyahu: The world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending.

“Woman: Aren’t you afraid of the world, Bibi?

“Netanyahu: Especially today, with America. I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction.”

A child speaks up, and, surprisingly articulate, avers: “They say they’re for us, but, it’s like…”

Yes, even the children are little ideologues. Today that boy is a teenager on the verge of adulthood, and likely a fervent supporter of Israel’s ultra-rightist government, led by Bibi, who, back then, quickly assured him: “They won’t get in our way.” The child, hardliner that he was and no doubt still is, seemed doubtful: “On the other hand,” the kid ventured, “if we do some something, then they…”

That’s when Bibi really let his hair down:

“So let’s say they say something. So they said it! They said it! 80% of the Americans support us. It’s absurd. We have that kind of support…. Look. That administration [Clinton] was extremely pro-Palestinian. I wasn’t afraid to maneuver there. I was not afraid to clash with Clinton.”

Of course he wasn’t, because he knew he’d win, what with the Republicans in Congress passing resolutions unconditionally supporting the Israelis and AIPAC and the rest of the Lobby going all out to mobilize their fifth column against Oslo and the very idea of a rapprochement. Oslo was a dagger placed against the throat of the hard-line Likud movement, which explicitly embraces the rather nutty idea of a “Greater Israel,” and there was no way Netanyahu or his party could accept it without betraying who and what they were and are.


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