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“Operation ARTICHOKE were intent on leaving no stone unturned in an effort to deliver the ultimate truth drug.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“Operation Midnight Climax, in which drug-addicted prostitutes were hired to pick up men from local bars and bring them back to a CIA-financed bordello.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“For a zoned-out, stupefied populace, “democracy” will be nothing more than the right to shop, or to choose between Wendy’s and Burger King, or to stare at CNN and think that this managed infotainment is actually the news. Corporate hegemony, the triumph of global democracy/consumerism based on an American model, is the collapse of American civilization. So a large-scale transformation is indeed going on, but it is one that makes triumph indistinguishable from disintegration.”
― The Twilight of American Culture
― The Twilight of American Culture
“Not content with simply dreaming about a better world, they take an active part in building it.”
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
“CIA documents indicate that LSD was employed as an aid to interrogation on an operational basis from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
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