Jim Garrison Keillor (@books_rum)

Paul Watkins: it wasn't the drugs and sex, it was the music that Charlie used to program us ...

Interesting paper in Africa Studies Quarterly- China’s attempt at a “win-win” relationship with Congo is at best hopelessly naive and at worse exploitative <a target="_blank" href="https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/168/v16a6.Kabemba.HD_.pdf" color="blue">asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-conte...

After Oslo, the Palestinian Authority received at least $27 billion in aid from the IMF, the World Bank, USAID and other sources. It just made the PA more authoritarian and did nothing to stop Israel's land theft ...

I suddenly got interested in the accounts of Sirhan being seen with groups of Arab students affiliated with Pasadena City College. One account said they were a group of pro-Baathists. Espcially in light of the feds' surveillance of Arab groups after the Six Day War...

Interesting stuff here. Gonna post highlights. Published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, 1976 ...

This new rash of seemingly "controlled killers" had me curious about what kinds of neuronal interface systems DARPA has been working on. This research is all ostensibly for therapeutic purposes, but a lot of this could be used to completely control people ...

I actually don’t think Biden is pursuing a single progressive policy at this point <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

In 1964 the CIA helped install Forbes Burnham as PM of Guyana, to get rid of the Marxist-Leninist Cheddi Jagan who was perceived as too close to Moscow. The CIA supported Burnham for years, and he welcomed Jonestown in 1974. <a target="_blank" href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligen...

Just started Mark Lane’s book on Jonestown. So far he has admitted to receiving $7500 from the Peoples Temple to investigate and prepare a response to a hostile National Enquirer article about Jonestown. This article was arranged by the State Dept who finally killed it....