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

"In the 1950s, the Ford Foundation often served as a front organization for the CIA, allowing the agency to channel funds to anti-Marxist academics and artists who did not know where the money was coming from, a process extensively documented in The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders.

"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."