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Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy and Why Michael Pollan Is Smarter Than I Am

Before Michael Pollan gained well-deserved respect and influence authoring five bestselling books about food, he got my attention in the late 1990s writing articles about American illegal-legal psychotropic drug hypocrisy. For those of us who appreciate what Pollan later accomplished for the local food and real food movements, it’s probably been a good idea that since 1999 he has stopped writing articles about drug hypocrisy, otherwise he may never have become so well-received.

What Really Happened to MH17? An Open Source Investigation

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
July 20, 2014
This post is intended as a round-up of available information on MH17 from various sources around the web. Corbett Report members are encouraged to debate and discuss the situation in the commments thread below, ask questions, suggest links, and otherwise contribute to this investigation. The article will be updated with information as the investigation continues. [Not a Corbett Report member? Sign up today.]

Introducing The CorbettReport.com Members

This is an open thread for CorbettReport.com members to introduce themselves. For those who don’t know, The Corbett Report is a member-sponsored website. Membership entitles you to the weekly Corbett Report Subscriber newsletter (featuring my International Forecaster editorial, subscriber-only videos, recommended reading and viewing and DVD discounts) as well as access to login to the website and leave comments on the posts here.

Psychiatry Keeps Anti-Authoritarians Off Democracy Battlefields

Many young people labeled with psychiatric diagnoses are essentially anti-authoritarians who are pained and angered by coercion, unnecessary rules, and illegitimate authority. Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is legitimate before taking that authority seriously. When they assess an authority to be illegitimate, they challenge and resist that authority—sometimes aggressively and sometimes passive-aggressively, sometimes wisely and sometimes not.