Mind Weapons

Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online.

Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves is the character-driven story behind the origins of the Predator drone program and the dawn of unmanned warfare. A firsthand account told by an Air Force team leader and a CIA team leader, Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves takes the listener into the back offices and secret government hangars where the robotic revolution went from a mad scientist idea to a pivotal part of global air power.

MIND FORCE is a gripping action-adventure special forces thriller crammed full of twists, turns, espionage and military combat (411 pages). Join 22nd Special Air Service Regiment Captain Kirkland Finn as he battles an East German crime lord and his squad of ex-KSK mercenaries across multiple European countries. A fiction novel with covert military action, thrilling car and motorbike chases, helicopters, and fight scenes, written in a refreshing cinematic style without long-winded descriptions and meaningless dialogue. MIND FORCE is the third instalment of the Kirkland Finn military action-...

Amanda Adams is a brilliant research student on the verge of breaking. Crushed by her doctoral thesis and driven by an impossible, icy-cold mentor, she’ll do anything for an edge. When the formidable Professor Smithson offers her a "gift", a private-stock vitamin mist to manage the stress, Amanda gratefully accepts. The relief is immediate. The sharp, adult world of deadlines and data melts into a warm, fuzzy, simple haze. For the first time, her anxiety is gone. She’s sleeping soundly… even if she keeps waking up with her thumb in her mouth. But the "gift" demands a price. Complex ...

He’s half man, half bull. She’s half human, half living volcano. Together, they’re humanity’s last hope. Lavender always knew she didn’t fit in. When your mother is literal lava and you can read minds, dating is… complicated. But she’s determined to live on her own terms, even if that means crossing oceans to find the one guy tough enough for her: The Bull. Carl Gray didn’t ask to be a superhero. One lightning strike fused him with a rodeo bull, giving him horns, hooves, unbreakable strength. And a very short fuse. These days he’s more interested in drinking himself into ...

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even...

"Battlefield of the Mind: Unveiling the Future of AI in Warfare" is a gripping exploration of the silent revolution reshaping modern combat. This eye-opening book pulls back the curtain on how artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming military strategy, decision-making, and the very nature of conflict itself. From autonomous weapons systems to predictive analytics in command centers, readers will gain unprecedented insight into the cutting-edge technologies poised to redefine warfare in the 21st century. Dr. Alan Turing once said, "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine ...

They were never meant to feel this much. When the exploration ship Magellan is torn apart in deep space, humanity learns the hard truth: we are not alone—and the things out there want us dead. The enemy has no name, only the chilling nickname pilots whisper across the void: Bugs. In answer, Earth’s military does the unthinkable. They fuse the minds of their convicted felons into living supercomputers—quantum-linked warriors who think, move, and kill as one. They call them Tankers. Lad is the newest link in the chain, a convicted innocent from the Star Force Academy. Every time the ...

Addy is a farmer in upstate New York. Tol is the prince of a dying magical race. Both are trapped in lives they didn’t choose. 18-year-old Addy has spent her entire life in a small town, where the most exciting activity is watching corn grow. That is, until seven-foot warriors crash through her front door. They kidnap her sister and then try to kill her. As she faces their swords with nothing but her fists, she’s saved by a man who obliterates her enemies without laying a finger on them. His name is Tol, and he claims to be a magical, mind-controlling prince. Tol has spent his life ...

Feel Unprepared for Emergencies? Learn How to Protect Your Family—Even If You’re on a Budget, Live in a Small Space, or Are Starting from Scratch. When the power goes out, store shelves are empty, or a storm rolls in with no warning… will your family be ready? If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of prepping—unsure where to start, what to buy, or whether you even can prepare in your current home—you’re not alone. Most preparedness advice feels like it’s made for hardcore survivalists or people with deep pockets and rural land. But this book is different. Prepper’s ...

This is a story about a scientist that created the world's most deadly and contagious bio weapon known to man. It released from the lab with a little help and spreads around the world like wildfire. As the virus spread how do you survive? How do you escape the death trap of the city. The infected become like enraged beasts and attacks everyone in sight. Soon they out number the survivors. A small group of people struggle to survive in a world gone mad. Is this the end of the human race? This is not a story of the undead rising. This is a story of humans being driven mad with a thirst for ...

What price is too great to save a life? By offering up his life for another, Tol doomed his entire race. Through an incredible feat of power and a magic only she can access, Olivia spared a friend and condemned herself. As Addy watched her happiness and love bleed out on a sandy shore, her dreams turned to dust. The cruel Supernal’s quest for power has brought both the mortal and immortal worlds to the edge of annihilation. The only way to challenge him will be through strange alliances, daring risks, and heartbreaking sacrifices. But with war on the horizon, are any of them strong enough...

Enter the world of the Chosen and Forsaken…mind-control and magically-enhanced weapons…with Book Two of The Fount series. Now, in THE FORSAKEN’S CHOICE, Addy and Tol are in a race against forces that seek to tear them apart. They’re determined to travel from Texas to Vitaquias—the world that was laid to waste—to find the only person who might be able to help them. With the Chosen people’s life-giving Source almost gone and the cruel Forsaken general closing in, Addy and Tol are running out of time. If they fail, they won’t be the only ones to bear the cost. Addy’s sister ...

The first audiobook of its kind, Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting-edge technology and neuroscience developed for military applications. As the author discusses the innovative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the role of the intelligence community and countless university science departments in preparing the military and intelligence services for the 21st century, he also charts the future of national security.

Explores the different groups--from research labs to the military--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood Looks at the CIA’s notorious top-secret mind-control...

Tag thought working for the Census would be boring... ...he just didn't know what he would get stuck with! When Tag's girlfriend, Corrina, left him, he thought the best way to win her back would be to clean up his act. The first step was to get a job. Fortunately, Census Rochester isn't the most choosy employer. Not choosy, but not all that classy, either. As Tag watches 'Chip' and 'Sue' explain in the training video how to enumerate his fellow citizens, he inadvertently stabs himself with something secretly taped under the old, surplus desk. Turns out, they're syringes from some government...

James Stone's journey across the artificial constellation of Evigone reaches its final phase. With war facing him on all sides and the avatars of Panadawn plotting in the background, does he have what he needs to win? Or is there another solution he hasn't seen? Having been promised an army, what will the Sagan make of Panadawn? What will happen to Cromorna and to their king's dreams of independence if they change their minds? And what hidden horrors lies among the abandoned worlds of the Third Sphere?

While on the Felspar, James Stone has learnt some terrible truths about the artificial constellation of Evigone. Giant, murderous insects, a great war and a secret the quasi-human spider Sanidine is prepared to kill to keep; all lead him and the human crew to mutiny. But worse still, James Stone has discovered he can read minds – and now they suspect he’s an emissary of the ancient enemies, the tsars of technology or Zarktek. While Bulsar tries to get help from the people of Aagau, the remaining crew trick him into leaving the ship and abandon him to the fate of the security forces of ...

It has been over 25 years since the first publication of The Technology of Control. It has been out of print for more than a decade. Initially, I was reluctant to reprint it in recent years as I have many of my extensive catalog of books from that era – My thought was that it might seem hopelessly obsolete. Yet, there was always a nagging imperative to bring my vast catalog of books back into access for this and future generations. According to a vast accumulation of disclosures, cold from newspaper articles, technical journals, government leaks, military hardware advertisements, essays ...

Questa frase è stata detta da uno dei manipolatori più abili della storia. Colui che è stato capace di convincere e manipolare non 1 non 100 ma un’intera nazione.... Il suo nome è Joseph Goebbels, ministro e capo della propaganda Nazista, la sua abilità di identificare i diversi meccanismi di suggestione della mente umana creando tattiche di manipolazioni molto efficaci fu tale che nella Germania nazista i cittadini diventarono parte di un progetto politico patologico sentendosi portatori di verità universale.