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Drugs as Weapons Against Us

The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us by John L. Potash explores the dark history of how opium-trafficking families formed an American oligarchy that influenced global politics. It reveals their involvement in funding the Nazi regime, orchestrating CIA operations like MK-Ultra that targeted leftist leaders and populations with drugs, and manipulating major U.S. conflicts in opium- and coca-rich regions under the guise of a "war on drugs." The book uncovers covert actions against groups such as the Black Panthers and activists, and details the drug manipulation and suppression of prominent musicians as part of this broader agenda.
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the Nazi regime and then saved thousands of Nazis to work with the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA operations such as MK-Ultra pushed LSD and other drugs

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Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the Nazi regime and then saved thousands of Nazis to work with the Central Intelligence Agency.

CIA operations such as MK-Ultra pushed LSD and other drugs on leftist leaders and left-leaning populations at home and abroad. Evidence supports that this oligarchy further led the United States into its longest-running wars in the ideal areas for opium crops, while also massively funding wars in areas of coca plant abundance for cocaine production under the guise of a "war on drugs" that is actually the use of drugs as a war on us.

Drugs as Weapons Against Us tells how scores of undercover U.S. Intelligence agents used drugs in the targeting of leftist leaders from SDS to the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Latin Kings, and the Occupy Movement. It also tells how they particularly targeted leftist musicians, including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur to promote drugs while later murdering them when they started sobering up and taking on more leftist activism.

The book further uncovers the evidence that Intelligence agents dosed Paul Robeson with LSD, gave Mick Jagger his first hit of acid, hooked Janis Joplin on amphetamines, as well as manipulating Elvis Presley, Eminem, the Wu Tang Clan, and others.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781937584924

Publisher: Trine Day

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Trine Day

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 250g

Pages: 456

About the Author

John L. Potash is the author of The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. His work has been published in the Baltimore Chronicle, the City Paper, Covert Action Quarterly, Rock Creek Free Press, and Z magazine. He lives in Baltimore.

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