September 16, 2025

Fooling Us Badly With Psyops


 

3 comments:

Big Mouth said...

NEW DOCUMENTARY - Dissent Into Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP65nMP2YpY&t=1736s

Footnotes
Walter Reich, “The World of Soviet Psychiatry,” The New York Times (magazine feature), 1983. ↩

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted on psychiatric incarceration of dissidents; see e.g., The Gulag Archipelago (1973–78) and related essays/interviews. ↩

PBS, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour coverage of Soviet psychiatric abuse (1980s segments). ↩

Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Harvard Univ. Press, 1985). ↩

Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989); on KWI/Rockefeller funding and Ernst Rüdin’s role. ↩

Michael M. Sokal, “James McKeen Cattell,” in American National Biography; Francis Galton’s correspondence with American psychologists. ↩

Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations, upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812), on “anarchia,” restraints, the “tranquilizing chair.” ↩

Samuel A. Cartwright, “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” DeBow’s Review, 1851 (introducing “drapetomania”). ↩

Lisa Cosgrove, Sheldon Krimsky, Meekyung Vijayaraghavan, Lisa Schneider, “Conflicts of Interest and the DSM-5,” PLoS Medicine 9(5): e1001190 (2012). ↩

Bruce E. Levine, Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011). ↩

Bruce E. Levine, Resisting Illegitimate Authority (AK Press, 2018). ↩

U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee), Book I–XI (1975–76). ↩

U.S. Senate, Project MKULTRA, The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (Joint Hearing, 1977). ↩

John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (Times Books, 1979); Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988) on Ewen Cameron. ↩

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program (Executive Summary, 2014). ↩

Big Mouth said...

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side (Doubleday, 2008); on Mitchell & Jessen and learned helplessness. ↩

David H. Hoffman et al., Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture (APA, 2015). ↩

The Corbett Report, Interview: Claire Swinney on her psychiatric detention (audio, 2009). ↩

Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine, Order In re: Meryl J. Nass, M.D. (2022). ↩

Taylor Hudak, “Swiss MD Thomas Binder Brutally Arrested for Opposing Government’s Covid Policies,” The Last American Vagabond (2022). ↩

Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper’s Magazine (Nov. 1964). ↩

Julian Huxley, “The Tissue-Culture King,” The Yale Review 16(4) (1927). ↩

Barney Miller (ABC), popular scene lampooning the Trilateral Commission (1970s). ↩

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (W. W. Norton, 2007). ↩

Jonathan Kay, Among the Truthers (HarperCollins, 2011). ↩

John Avlon, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America (Beast Books, 2010). ↩

John P. Roche, letter to Times Literary Supplement, reported in TIME (Jan. 5, 1968). ↩

Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door (Broadway, 2005). ↩

Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience (Guilford Press, 1993). ↩

Andrew M. Łobaczewski, Political Ponerology (Red Pill Press, Eng. ed. 2006). ↩

Clive R. Boddy, Corporate Psychopaths: Organizational Destroyers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). ↩

Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). ↩

Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., “Fearless Dominance and the U.S. Presidency,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2012). ↩

Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott (dirs.), The Corporation (2003); Joel Bakan, The Corporation (Free Press, 2004). ↩

Solomon E. Asch, “Opinions and Social Pressure,” Scientific American 193(5):31-35 (1955). ↩

Stanley Milgram, “Behavioral Study of Obedience,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67(4):371-378 (1963); Obedience to Authority (Harper & Row, 1974). ↩

Philip Zimbardo et al., “Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison,” International Journal of Criminology and Penology (1973); Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect (Random House, 2007). ↩

James R. Schlesinger et al., Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations (Aug. 2004). ↩

U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (Dec. 2008); Donald Rumsfeld, Action Memo approving interrogation techniques (Dec. 2, 2002). ↩

Archival footage/news: Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Palace Square speech (Dec. 21, 1989), subsequent Romanian Revolution events (Dec. 1989). ↩

BuelahMan said...

Thanks, RJ