DARPA Drugs: New Class of Psychedelics for Vets

The military wants to know if new hallucination-less psychedelics can heal US vets suffering from PTSD as DARPA drops $27M into Focused Pharma.

Rise of the Groundbot Grunts

According to a recent article in Wired, about one in fifty troops in Afghanistan is a robot.

A Screw Falls Out of the Machine: The Birth of a Psychonaut

Mushrooms taught me that karma is
real. DMT taught me that there is life
after death. How could I fight a war? I was supposed to get on a plane and fly up to the base for duty. No doubt
that's when they would serve me my deployment papers. I decide …

Empty Illinois Prison Considered for Gitmo Detainees and Military Tribunals

The Obama Administration is considering transferring Gitmo detainees to an empty prison in a struggling Illinois town, an idea Republicans hate, but the people of economically devastated Thomson are praying for.

The Navy Doesn’t Really Want to Kill Whales

Is the Navy's directive really to kill whales? Of course not, as so much has been learned by closely listening to and monitoring these animals, and the military continues to do so today. No smart army will eliminate some of its best sources of information and expertise.

Reinventing Collapse

The Cold War lasted so long because the opposing superpowers were evenly matched. Now that the US has no superpower competitor, could this spell the demise of America?

Secret Weapons

[Daemonic Dispatches] • Jon Ronson tells the sinister and ridiculous story of the U.S. government's experiments in psychic warfare – including Uri Geller, Ed Dames and the Army's remote viewing program, Steven Halpern and subliminal suggestion, Guy Savelli's death touch, the Heaven's Gate suicides, and the use of the Barney theme song as a torture device in Abu Ghraib.