Author and Filmmaker John Potash joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the ways in which the CIA has used drugs to de-radicalize musicians and activists. On this episode, Potash discusses the opium trade and how it influenced the Ivy League universities, the rise of secret societies, how and why the CIA got into the culture business, Acid Tests, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Eldridge … [Read more...]
Bob Woodward: The Fallible Eighties
by S.T. Patrick Though Bob Woodward has now been replaced by Tucker Carlson atop The New York Times list of hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, his newest book Fear: Trump in the White House remains a major topic of conversation within and beyond Washington D.C. S.T. Patrick continues his series on Woodward and his monarchical hold on modern journalism by profiling The … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 090 – Carmine Savastano on 5 Key JFK Assassination Figures
Author Carmine Savastano joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Marina Oswald, James Files, and John Henry Hill. Savastano, the author of Two Princes and a King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations, brings his research to the program as he and S.T. discuss the origin of the Dulles-Kennedy conflict, the former CIA director's inclusion on the … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 089 – Legacy of Charles Manson with Nikolas Schreck
Author and director Nikolas Schreck joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the life and legacy of Charles Manson and the former members of his commune. Schreck discusses the update to his mammoth book, The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman. He also addresses the bizarre fight over Manson's remains and estate, as well as how trash TV producers used the funeral for a … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 081 – Peter Janney on the Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer
Author PETER JANNEY joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer. Janney also addresses the rise of the CIA both domestically and in his own home, Operation Mockingbird and CIA ties to the mainstream media, the life and personality of Mary Meyer, JFK's young attraction to Mary and the evolution of that bond, JFK and Mary in 1960, Mary's interest in LSD and how … [Read more...]