"There is scarce new information on MKUltra, so it is surprising to see congressional inquiry over half a century after the program terminated. But as is often the case, these questions about the past have less to do with this horrible past than they do with the horrible present."

Congressional MKUltra Hearings as MAGA PSYOP

For the record, as someone who distrusts the CIA and who spent years studying MKUltra. I believe MKUltra died within the agency in the 1960s. It died because it didn’t work. The types of mind control ...

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Tomorrow morning (6/30) Congressional Hearing on the CIA's MKULTRA program. Don't expect this congress to cut through the disinformation, but the circus should be worth watching. Below link to chapter I wrote on anthropologists unwitting contributions to MKULTRA research in my CIA anthropology book.

Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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"... just as anthropologists demonstrating the social construction of race and racism were subjected to McCarthyism’s attacks, today scholars complicating our understanding of race, sex, gender, class, and other topics central to our understanding of inequality are under attack."

The Hidden Architecture of Knowledge: Intelligence, Academia, and the Shaping of Power

This exclusive commentary explains the role that intelligence agencies, philanthropic foundations and state power have played historically in the creation of academic knowledge, especially during the ...

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Dystopian dreams of authoritarian government or corporate mind reading coming closer to reality.

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.

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This article just came out that I co-authored with the late Estonian anthropologist Kristin Kuutma thinking about Cold War impacts on the development of anthropology in the Baltics, Soviet Estonia, and Dr. Strangelove's America.

Soviet and US cold war borderlands

This paper discusses how geographical and ideological borders impacted anthropological practices in the East and West during the Cold War. Examples from the Baltics and Soviet Estonia and the Unite...

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Day three, Library of Congress research.

The main reason that anyone pretends Iran won't be a Forever War is that everyone knows Trump's attention span is shorter than his tiny hands. But we're all going to be dealing with Trump's damage long after his boredom sets in and he's left the scene of the crime.

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"TLDR: Use Signal for as many texts, calls, and video chats as possible, and set up disappearing messages. Just remember that encryption isn't magic. Consider the security of the devices on each end of the conversation—and how much you trust everyone in it."

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

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Recorded feed from an hour long broadcast this week on NYC's Pacifica WBAI radio show "Uncontrolled Opposition," talking about the history of The Asia Foundation and the CIA.

The Asia Foundation and the CIA w David Price | Uncontrolled Opposition Live Recording for WBAI 99.5

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"Kung Fu practice" needs a new entry in Urban Dictionary.

We should expect nothing less in a country where our public schools' history classes are seldom more an afterthought delivered by videos and peppered with the impressionistic ramblings of football coaches.

Happy New Year

My piece forgotten roots of techno-feudalst movement. "It should concern all of us who dream of a world where Americans have universal health care, food security, and meaningful work, that our oligarchs dream of a world where they have unchecked power and we are chattel."

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Covert Action Mag's review of my book on The CIA and the Asia Foundation.

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Salmon running the Deschutes River a few blocks from my home.

Sights I saw in Washington DC today. National Guard at the National Museum of the American Indian.

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...

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