Counterinsurgent Strategies of Psychoactive Control: The John Potash Interview
Added 2024-07-30 05:28:20 +0000 UTCWelcome back to ParaPower Mapping.
Here is hopefully the first of a number of wide-ranging & incisive conversations w/ John Potash, the author of Drugs as Weapons Against Us & The FBI War on Tupac Shakur, not to mention producer/ director of documentaries of the same name, as well as his most recent release Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics and the forthcoming CIA Drugs R Us.
A journalist & investigative researcher w/ a meritorious career stretching 3 decades, John’s expertise has been called upon in documentaries broadcast on C-SPAN, A&E, Reelz, & RT among others—he’s also a veteran of noided radio royalty Coast to Coast AM & myriad other shows on the late night airwaves. He’s published his writings in Z, Covert Action Quarterly, The Baltimore Chronicle, & the Free Press. Along the way, John’s completed graduate studies at Columbia University and has worked as a mental health & addictions counselor for more than 25 years, giving him a firsthand view of the neurotoxic impacts of many recreational substances on the mind & their weaponization against political dissidents, further underlining his qualifications as one of the preeminent scholars of the way in which the imperial hegemon wields psychoactive substances for mass mind & social control & counterinsurgent purposes at home and abroad.
(Notes will be updated once I've collated the index).
A companion solo ep to follow imminently, including readings from Drugs as Weapons.
Tracks:
| Gil Scott-Heron - "Home is Where the Hatred Is" |
| Neil Young - "Needle & the Damage Done" |
| Gil Scott-Heron - "Angel Dust" |
Comments
Working on a companion piece & then John will be back in the fall, inshallah
ParaPower Mapping
2024-08-02 07:43:30 +0000 UTCWow cool THIS is a fantastic surprise in my feed this morning and is spicing up my content allotment for the rest of the week. Very glad to hear that this will be the first in an ongoing series. While I’m not (yet) familiar with his work, it’s a domain within an area of study that is very significant for me, and I think something that we all ought to pay closer attention to.
Vril Donahue
2024-07-31 16:30:08 +0000 UTCHype! Yes, if all goes according to plan, John should be back on in Oct. following the release of his new doc. There’s also a solo companion ep w/ some “Drugs as Weapons” excerpts that I’m working on finishing to pair this convo
ParaPower Mapping
2024-07-30 20:50:05 +0000 UTCYeah great get, great interview. Looking forward to pt 2-?
greg
2024-07-30 19:28:04 +0000 UTC
