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Building Better Killing Machines — With Ecstasy!

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Mar 21, 2024 Rick Doblin, the pioneer of MDMA therapy, advocates for dosing soldiers upon enlistment. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Military

The VA Is Failing Veterans on Mental Health

Kathleen McGrory / ProPublica Jan 10, 2024 A ProPublica analysis of 313 studies conducted by the agency’s inspector general in recent years shows repeated failures in behavioral care. The breakdowns have had fatal consequences. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

Wildfires Are Taking a Toll on Rural America’s Mental Health

Claire Carlson, The Daily Yonder, John Upton & Kaitlyn Trudeau, Climate Central / The Daily Yonder Jan 8, 2024 Besides physical effects, wildfire smoke can create economic anxiety, isolation, and despair. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

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Part II: Who’s Researching the Researchers?

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Mar 23, 2023 This is the concluding feature story in the multi-part Dig series, “The Ecstasy of Agony,” investigating the politics of psychedelic research and its commercialization, with a focus on the historic and present-day links between psychedelia and the military. The first feature explored how veterans were deployed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies' (MAPS) as public relations mascots to gain public sympathy for psychedelic pharmaceutical agendas. This piece delves deeper into the lived experiences of veterans recruited by MAPS and explores allegations of manipulation tactics on the part of MAPS and its researchers — allegations that raise serious questions about MAPS' methods and relationships with veterans over the last decade. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

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The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Military

Staff / Truthdig Feb 17, 2023 The video and full transcript from Truthdig's recent livestream event featuring a discussion between Psymposia co-founder, Brian Normand, and Dig curator, Russell Hausfeld. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Mass Shooting Punishment

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MAPS advances its agenda to treat active-duty soldiers with psychedelics

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Nov 10, 2022 Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Part I: A Long Strange Loop

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Nov 1, 2022 The emergence of veterans and active duty soldiers as the face of psychedelic research is the result of a controversial political strategy. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Female Journalists Still Bear the Brunt of Cyberattacks

Katharine Quarmby / Truthdig Jan 9, 2020 Even in countries that value press freedom, women are routinely subjected to threats of rape and other forms of online abuse. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Signature Wound of America’s Wars

Arnold R. Isaacs / TomDispatch Dec 3, 2019 An invisible type of war injury is starting to be recognized in the military world, though many still reject its existence. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Many Ways Americans Are Paying for Forever War

Andrea Mazzarino / TomDispatch Nov 24, 2019 America’s 21st-century wars, while fought thousands of miles away, are also far closer at hand than we like to think. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Impeach All the Presidents

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Sep 30, 2019 Donald Trump has committed several crimes that warrant his removal from office. So did Obama, Bush and countless others before them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )