The Original Captain Trips
Before Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…before Timothy Leary…before Ken Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters and their Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests…before the dawn of the Grateful Dead, there was Alfred M. Hubbard: the Original Captain Trips.
The New Digital Order: Nefarious Nerds and Machines of Loving Grace
The Internet still holds promise as a tool for positive political, social, and even evolutionary transformation. Yet like all tools, it can be used to help or harm, create or control, empower or imprison.
An Outbreak of Fear and Paranoia in the Psychedelic Mushroom Community
Some months ago, a chap called Jan Irvin put out a request for funds to help him pursue a project concerned with unveiling a sinister Elite/CIA/NWO conspiracy. Irvin is attempting nothing less than a total rewrite of psychedelic history. What got me involved were his insinuations about Gordon Wasson. I put my foot in it and all hell broke loose.
The Battle for the Soul of the Republic
The NSA mega-data center, the CIA relationship with
Google, and the federalization of local police suggest that the government
of the United States of America is no longer in
friendly hands. As an intelligence officer, retired Marine, and patriot, I am deeply offended, personally threatened, and alarmed.
CIA “Ninja-Librarians” Track Twitter
The CIA is mining social media websites like Twitter and Facebook in an attempt to track everything from common public opinion to revolutions in the making.
The (Not-So) Secret History of the War on Drugs
A new video by Charles Shaw, author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality, leads us on a mind-blowing trip through the secret history of American drug policy, where nothing is as it appears. [Video]
