Status Updates From The Shock Doctrine: The Ris...

"Just as an older form of capitalist conquest was built on the mass graves of the country's indigenous peoples, the Chicago School project in Latin America was quite literally built on the secret torture camps where thousands of people who believed in a different country disappeared."

"The first recorded use of medical electrocution was by a Swiss doctor practising in the 1700s. Believing that mental illness was caused by the devil, he had a patient hold on to a wire that he powered with a static electricity machine; one jolt was given for each demon. The patient was then pronounced cured."

"The enormous benefit of having corporate views filtered through academic, or quasi-academic, institutions not only kept the Chicago School flush with donations but, in short order, spawned the global network of right-wing think tanks that would house and feed the counter-revolution's foot soldiers worldwide."