Editor's Blog
According to a recent Reuters report, a British academic named Malcolm Dando, who is also described as an "arms control expert," has sounded a warning that mind drugs could emerge as effective weapons of war — shades of the experiments with LSD, Belladonna and other agents carried out by the CIA and the US army in the 1960s.
Aside from mentioning the powerful synthetic opiate Fentanyl, used by the Russians against Chechen militants who had seized a Russian theater, Dando opines that even gene therapy being developed in civilian life science laboratories ‘are particularly suited to this style of warfare; it is not hard to find people in the military world who think they would be useful." That would be long-term strategic — as opposed to tactical — thinking, I suppose.
And finally there’s oxytocin, the chemical of love. Dando is quoted as saying, that its potential use "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people’s emotions in a military context."
All civilians will now proceed to the chill room, sit on giant fluffy pillows and groove with some classic Aphex Twins.
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Jason Louv sent me this mind blowing link…
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/cockburn
Kirill Benediktov, in his online book on the invasion, reports that
these soldiers were equipped–so subsequent searches of bodies and
prisoners of war disclosed–not only with NATO-supplied food packages
but with sachets of methamphetamine and combat stress pills based on
MDMA, aka the active ingredient of Ecstasy. The meth amps up soldiers
to kill without mercy, and the MDMA derivative frees them of
subsequent debilitating flashbacks and recurring nightmares. Official
use of methamphetamine and official testing of MDMA in the US armed
forces have been discussed in news stories.
Then there’s also the fabulous book ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ about the army’s experiments with psychic warfare, including goat-staring, in an effort to make goats drop dead from the evil eye, which is a real giggle, in a scary kind of way. Well worth a read.
Did they succeed? You’ll have to read the book.
Drug warfare is going on in this country already isn’t it? Haven’t the CIA been pumping black neighbourhoods full of drugs for years already?