Robbie and Abby Martin continue their psychedelic series with an episode about the DEA raid on the LSD missile silo manufacturing plant, Robbie’s quest for psychedelics online, his experience taking 2-C-T-7 and dangerous attempts to synthesize DMT at his home. They discuss the fear campaign around several overdoses of 2-C-T-7 and introduce the groundbreaking life and work of the brilliant chemist behind 200+ psychedelic analogs, including MDMA, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin and his wife Anne.

This is Episode 5 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-5 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

Previous:

Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s / 70s

Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA

Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age

Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia

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Ep 5: the Acid Drought, Making DMT, A Godfather of Psychedelic Analogs & His Problem Child 2-C-T-7

Abby and Robbie catch up on the last few weeks, including Robbie's
special visit to the last Shulgin BBQ before Anne passed away, "The
Boys" show bad and good empire babydom, the killing and political
legacy of Shinzo Abe, the insidious co-optation of the left into
reactionary politics, and the historic shift in Latin America from
countries like Chile and Colombia throwing off their neocolonial
chains.

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The Boys, Co-Opting the Left, Latin America Throws Off Neocolonial Shackles

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Author Nick Bryant (https://nickbryantnyc.com) joins us to talk about sexual blackmail, his first death threat, the spookiness of Nebraska, and some of the weird and uncanny characters he’s come across in his decades reporting on some of the darkest, most disturbing deep state intelligence networks. 

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Episode 243: Anatomy Of A Conspiracy [trailer]

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TYFYS: The Bear w/ Annabel Sharahy, Sean Beard & *CYCLONE* Jack Sullivan

Abby and Robbie are joined by Mike Prysner for a special two part Media Roots Radio on Alex Jones. Part one goes over the real history of Alex Jones dominating alternative media and poison pilling government skepticism. The Sandy Hook trial is explained, as well as Alex’s pathological, malicious lying about the mass shooting.

Alex Jones & the 20-Year-Long Poison Pill to Destroy the Alt Media Ecosystem, Part 1 of 2

Abby and Robbie are joined by Mike Prysner for a special two part Media Roots Radio on Alex Jones. Part two details how Alex became a Trump sycophant calling for martial law, his role in QAnon, and the recent attempt to rehabilitate his image and whitewash his legacy with the film Alex’s War.

Rehabilitating Alex Jones, How Infowars is Controlled Opposition & A Tool for Elites , Part 2 of 2

"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer," preached Jaime Escalante, Edward James Olmos’ character, in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. "The best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education," announced Barack Obama during his 2010 State of the Union address.

This message is everywhere, pervading political speeches, Oscar-bait films, think-tank papers, and everything in between. The key to economic upward mobility—we’re endlessly told, is education—a societal building block that is, or at least should be, accessible to every child, no matter their race, gender, or income level. It's a seductive, seemingly unassailable conceit, suggesting that we live in a meritocracy where second chances and generational wealth-building are possible, even probable, with a few simple tools.

But is there any truth to this idea? There’s a growing body of evidence showing that education level does not, in fact, necessarily translate to higher wages. Which raises the questions: Why has the idea that education is the ultimate anti-poverty tool persisted? Whose interests are served in its continuation? And who, in turn, pays the price?

On this episode, the Season Six premiere of Citations Needed, we detail and debunk the widespread conventional wisdom that education is the rising tide that lifts all boats, looking at the ways it reinforces themes of individualism and personal responsibility; obscures systemic issues like racism and worker exploitation in the labor market; and ultimately keeps people entrenched in, rather than liberating them from, poverty and low-wage work.

Our guest is Lake Forest professor Cristina Viviana Groeger.

Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals

"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy," insists New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. "Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount," The Guardian reports.

Though these headlines are framed as exploratory questions, news media seem to have their minds made up: the problem with Washington is that it’s chock full of geezers. In recent years, we’ve often heard that U.S. policymaking, helmed at the federal level by seventy- and eighty-somethings like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, and at the state level by the similarly aged Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Pat Leahy, is simply growing too old and out of touch with the electorate.

There’s some credence to this, of course. It’s certainly true that those occupying the most powerful positions in U.S. government, on the whole, don’t legislate to the needs of the public – whether on healthcare, policing, education – the list goes on and on. But is that really because of legislators' age? Why does age have to be the focus in this analysis, rather than policy positions and, relatedly, class interests, which exist independent of age? Who does it serve to reduce the causes of U.S. austerity politics and violence to pat, Pepsi marketing-style "generation gap" discourse?

On this episode show, we detail how "generations" analysis is ineffectual and, more often than not, misses the mark. We'll discuss how fears of a "gerontocracy" can – if not in intent, in effect – malign old age itself, stigmatize the elderly and, above all, distract from what could be a substantive critical analysis of real, more profound vectors of oppression such as class, racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ currents.

Our guest in Winslow Erik Wright.

Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse

In this News Brief, we discuss the nominally progressive news network's lies and omissions when covering efforts to reduce the US's unprecedented jail and prison population.

News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery

Abby Martin is back in the saddle with Robbie for a jam packed episode of Media Roots Radio. They discuss how America can even have useful elections anymore with the record breaking spending of the recent midterm elections, Kanye West's continuing spiral, the Democrats reversing their position to put diplomatic conditions on money to Ukraine and Trump VS Ron DeCIAntis (the showdown we've all been waiting for).

[This episode was recorded the evening before some of the final vote tallies came in for AZ governer and senate race] 

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The $17Billion Midterms, Kanye's MKUltra Flex, Dem's Ukraine Diplomacy Reversal & Trump VS DeCIAntis

Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view.

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