Category: <span>Sociology</span>

Sociology

KUBARK – U.S. Army Torture Manuals

The U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals are seven controversial military training manuals which were declassified by the Pentagon in 1996. In 1997, two...

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Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure

Psychology played an important role in the development of the methodologies. Sensory deprivation is a pivotal field of study in this context (see attached...

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“Deep-Interrogation” – A euphemism for torture

The five techniques (also know as Deep-Interrogation) were illegal interrogation methods which were originally developed by the British military in other operational theatres and...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein – Aspect Blindness

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy...

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John Dewey – Our unfree Press (1961)

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one...

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APA & CIA

Psychologists Collaborated with CIA & Pentagon on Post-9/11 Torture Program, May Face Ethics Charges https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1376717/cia-report.pdf See: https://www.rt.com/usa/256813-cia-torture-psychologist-fbi/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/psychologists-shielded-us-torture-program-report-finds.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-document.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

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Rockefeller Report (1994)

103d Congress, 2d Session - COMMITTEE PRINT - S. Prt. 103-97 IS MILITARY RESEARCH HAZARDOUS TO VETERANS' HEALTH? LESSONS SPANNING HALF A CENTURY A...

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Bertrand Russel on education and freedom of thought

Free thought and official propaganda : delivered at South Place Institute on March 24, 1922 “Manwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all...

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Hannah Arendt

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” ~Hannah Arendt

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The term “conspiracy theory” as a psycholinguistic tool for memetic hegemony

The conspiracy theory meme as a tool of cultural hegemony: A critical discourse analysis by Rankin, James Edwin, Jr., Ph.D. Abstract (Summary) Those rejecting...

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