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Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Leftists Paperback – May 30, 2015

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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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"Both well-researched and an exhilarating read, Drugs as Weapons Against Us exposes the dark history of the state’s use of drugs as both a tool of imperialism abroad and of social control at home." —Kara Dellacioppa, chair of the Sociology Department, California State University; author, This Bridge Called Zapatismo; editor, Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century

“Well-documented . . . not just opinion . . . I’m really recommending people get this book and read it . . . I really encourage everybody to get online and order this book right away!” —Joe Madison, talk radio host

“In my first radio interview, Frank Zappa told me the CIA was distributing LSD to the hippies. [Drugs as Weapons Against Us is] Unbelievable! Just a compelling story!” —Allan Handelman, Rock Talk

"Awesome guest [John Potash]… is going out on a limb. This is a book that if you’re interested in the manipulation of the population, you’re going to want to get. This is the kind of book I just crave.” —Joyce Riley, The Power Hour

“[John Potash] has done a wonderful job of research and a wonderful job of presenting [his] facts.” —Rob McConnell, The X Zone

“When Lennon met semi-privately with media guru Marshall McLuhan in late 1969, McLuhan let Lennon know he was a ‘useful fool,’ and The Beatles were [used] for psychological warfare… in popularizing drugs. Lennon stormed out but came back a few hours later to learn more. [Drugs as Weapons Against Us] is exhilarating and well-researched… with startling revelations… definitely worth the read!” —Richard Syrett, The Conspiracy Show

“The CIA have used drugs as weapons against Americans… to control people or pacify dissension against the official status quo—the government’s war policies… We should not delude ourselves that U.S. Intelligence has repented and would never repeat these operations… Many people still look at the rapid rise of the hallucinogenic use among these popular Sixties rock stars such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix as positive contributions—I don’t—to the Sixties idealism—It wasn’t—about the world’s possibility for peace, love and global cooperation—that’s naïve. Nevertheless, we barely consider the possibility that such pacifist views were the intention of U.S. Intelligence agencies, and the CIA and its moneyed interests had a role in creating the Sixties subculture and [leading them to] dropping out and leaving behind radical dissent and protest. [John Potash has] covered so much in [his] research… we appreciate his work.” —Gary Null, WBAI 99.5 FM

“The book is amazing!” —David Clyde, The Wild Side 990AM WBOB, Rhode Island

“I just got the book a couple days ago and I can’t wait to read it. I really can’t.” —Bill LuMaye, WPTF, 680AM/850AM Raleigh, Duram, Chapel Hill, NC. Listed in Talkers magazine Top 250

"I really think [Drugs as Weapons Against Us] is a fascinating compendium of… what the CIA was doing... regarding manipulating our minds… targeting a lot of famous celebrities, musicians. [John Potash is] an author I really recommend you read… definitely read Drugs as Weapons Against Us." —Sean Stone, Buzzsaw on The Lip TV

“This is a marvelous book!” —John B. Wells, Caravan to Midnight and former host of Coast to Coast AM

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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Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Trine Day (May 30, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1937584925
ISBN-13: 978-1937584924
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #262 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Intelligence & Espionage
- #593 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Communication & Media Studies
- #4728 in Books > History > Americas > United States

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If a single one of the artists featured in this ...

ByPhilip R. Surdamon May 27, 2015

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If a single one of the artists featured in this book has had any effect whatsoever on your life, it will be time well invested if you read it.
A worthy follow-up to his scorching first work, "The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders", Mr. Potash brings forth a well sourced, well written , & thought provoking volume--featuring the undocumented backstory to many celebrity death & substance abuse stories that we in the public have become all too accustomed to. As a fan of many of those artists featured & a fan of Political intrigue, I found this to be absolutely riveting.

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Social engineering with chemical sabotage

ByJay Trouton August 23, 2015

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A thoroughly researched and referenced expose of how the oligarchs of our world will use any means necessary to engineer society.
This book shows how drugs didn't just enter the counter culture. They were planted and fertilized within it for nefarious purposes. Drugs have been used repeatedly for political purposes worldwide, derailing the lives of political activists, politicians, artists, and ordinary people. An important work. A must read.

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Disturbing but Necessary Reading.

ByRlewison June 6, 2016

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I read many conspiracy books, watch many documentaries, and listen to many podcasts that go against the mainstream point of view and John Potash's Drugs as Weapons against us even had me astounded with the amount of suppressed information it presented. Every Paragraph, every sentence of this book is filled with jaw dropping information. The most intriguing part of the book to me was the revelations revealed about the marriage between Kurt Kobain and Courtney Love. I won't spoil anything in this review, but I thought I was pretty up to date on this subject, but John Potash reveals facts that I'm sure less than 5% of the people know about Kurt Kobain and Courtney Love. Basically this book provides well researched information that the Shadow government use Drugs to not only fund certain Clandestine operations, but also to destroy people who they, the Shadow government, seem to view as a threat. Before I read this Book I was Pro legalization of all drugs but after reading this book I'm beginning to rethink my philosophy. Excellent!!!

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Former Drug User Warns of the Hidden Dangers of Drugs

ByAmazon Customeron August 27, 2015

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A sobering, well-researched book about the dangers of drugs, both legal and illegal and a look inside the multi-billion dollar drug industry. I just wish he didn't sound so apologetic about writing this book, because there should be more writers like him, writing sincere, well-written accounts from their own negative experiences with drugs and the dreadful consequences young people aren't told about when they are lured into consuming them. With all the demonization about smoking and the billions spent turning cigarettes into the virtual "demon weed", it's reprehensible virtually nothing is done about educating the public and young people in particular about the exponentially worse effects of so-called "recreational" drugs. I know, because I had to learn while I was already in a rehab.This will be a very easy book for young people in particular to read; his tone is quite low-key and he speaks right from the heart.

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Agents disguised as hippies saw to it that I unwittingly broke the law and threatened with prison and a massive fine, and was ev

ByLee Bridgerson September 26, 2016

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This book is a must read, a history book of forbidden truth. It relays facts that are both unpleasant and shocking. I was one of those kids who joined the SDS after it had been infiltrated by the FBI. Agents disguised as hippies saw to it that I unwittingly broke the law and threatened with prison and a massive fine, and was eventually set up for a drug bust when agents planted marijuana in my car. Their threats took me out of the movement. I was scared to be seen at a demonstration from fear of being prosecuted. They knew me and followed me and I just gave up and fell for the false ecstasy of LSD and STP, the peace that didn't exist and the love that was truly sex and drugs and rock and roll. I saw a generation turned into lost children wandering like zombies offering free love that was really free sex. The advertising was everywhere and a nonconformist generation conformed to the most perverted way of thinking with addled minds. And the memories of those times, the posters made by CIA shills, the voices of leaders like Timothy Leary and Wavy Gravy--they haunt me now. Nowhere is this mad dash to stupid documented more accurately than in the pages of this meticulously constructed work of non-fiction. The chapters unfold in history like blows to the consciousness. The footnotes will curl your hair as you read through 500 pages of death, destruction and pitiful misunderstandings. It is time to wake up from the acid dream and live in the real world that has been created by our secret government ran by a handful of drug running families with trillions of dollars to spend on oppression and murder and genocides around the planet. From the Opium Wars that turned China British to the poppy fields of Afghanistan where our troops we unwittingly call heroes to bolster their egos while they guard the precious fruits of oppression and kill innocents by the millions and bring home misery. We are victims of mind control and it is time to wake up from our acid dreams and take responsibility for a revolution that was crushed with drugs and murders and wars against non-white cultures. The revolution has been postponed indefinitely. It is time to know and reevaluate. This book bravely gives us the truth of the true heroes who were misled, confused and driven by the pressure of conformity as they were drugged and murdered in our midst. Conspiracy is a crime and we need to put the real criminals into the prisons they have made for our rebels and the weakest and most downtrodden and tortured souls with skin colors that are darker than the overlords.

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I can say that this author does a great job of providing an excellent overview of many many ...

Bybossaboyon August 11, 2015

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Exceptionally well documented look at how our system works. Having already read tens of thousands of pages of related materials over many years, I can say that this author does a great job of providing an excellent overview of many many CIA, FBI, police and related programs and activities that have been, and continue to be, designed to destroy or render ineffective any social change movements that threaten the oligarchy. Highly recommended.

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