We begin our multi-part series on the legends and myths swirling around the POW/MIAs allegedly left behind in Indochina with an explanation of how we got there in the first place: The Vietnam war, the Golden Triangle, secret bombings, aerial campaigns, army wives, and Ross Perot.

We’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, Agents of Chaos, about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.

A minor surge in Gay Obama Panic on the right leads us to investigate reformed human trafficker Larry Sinclair’s claim that he performed fellatio on then-Senator Barack Obama in Gurnee, Illinois.

We talk about the Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, and the trickster, the tricks, and the tricked.

We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.

Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978 

New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners