Sub to the PPM Patreon to access the upcoming Companion EP to the Potash Interview & the "Counterinsurgent Strategies" Index: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Thanks for supporting the show! **** Here is hopefully the first of a number of wide-ranging & incisive convos w/ John Potash (https://www.johnpotash.com) on the weaponization of drugs for social control, counterinsurgent strategies, and the political assassinations of musicians & activists who buck against the capitalist status quo and whose ideological beliefs & activities are deemed threatening by the ruling elite & their intel henchmen. John is the author of Drugs as Weapons Against Us & The FBI War on Tupac Shakur. He's also the producer / director of documentaries of the same name, as well as his most recent release Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics—his filmography will be bolstered in short order by the forthcoming C I A Drugs R Us! A Drugs as Weapons... Sequel. 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 by American intelligence, 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... In my humble estimation, he is one of the foremost historians of MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, & intel-run culture engineering operations—he's also one of my personal favorite independent researchers, to boot. It was a true privilege to pick his mind. **** A solo ep accompanying this interview, including readings of excerpts from Drugs as Weapons, to follow imminently... Exploring the 1968 anti-war & Gym Crow student uprisings at Columbia, various members of that NYC activist milieu's targeting w/ acid & infiltration by the feds, & a Drugs as Weapons-esque case study concerning a Columbia dropout who was busted running a sophisticated, 40 person strong opioid manufacturing & trafficking ring in Omaha in 2017. Tracks: | Gil Scott-Heron - "Home is Where the Hatred Is" | | Neil Young - "Needle & the Damage Done" | | Gil Scott-Heron - "Angel Dust" | | Gil Scott-Heron - "Whitey on the Moon" |