From chomsky. Courageous Women. Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder. Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible. " Did Truman value Japanese lives above Russian and German? There is nothing anywhere to suggest that he did. Yet we debate, every August 6th or so, whether Truman was willing to unnecessarily sacrifice Japanese lives in order to scare Russians with his nuclear bombs. A U.S. On August 6, 1945, President Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. Some try to imaginethat the bombs shortened the war and saved more lives than the some 200,000 they took away. Presidential advisor James Byrnes had told Truman that dropping the bombs would allow the United States to "dictate the terms of ending the war.
" "Having found the bomb we have used it. I just want you to think, instead, about this poem: James Holmes. The Joker’s Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America | The Primate Diaries. The United States is the deadliest wealthy country in the world. Can science help us explain, or even solve, our national crisis? "Joker" by Nathaniel Gold His tortured and sadistic grin beamed like a full moon on that dark night.
“Madness, as you know, is like gravity,” he cackled. “All it takes is a little push.” But once the house lights rose, the terror was lifted for most of us. Few imagined that the fictive evil on screen back in 2008 would later inspire a depraved act of mass murder by a young man sitting with us in the audience, a student of neuroscience whose mind was teetering on the edge. In the wake of the tragedy that struck Aurora, Colorado last Friday there remain more questions than answers. While everyone agrees the blame should ultimately be placed on the perpetrator of this violence, the fact remains that the United States has one of the highest murder rates in the industrialized world. Diagnosing Murder To Err is Non-Human Figure 1. Figure 2. But what about guns? Inside the Minds of Mass Killers.
Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Neuroanthropology, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Paul Mullen, the esteemed Australian forensic psychologist, gives a balanced and insightful interview on how we can comprehend young men like James Holmes, Anders Breivik, and Jared Loughner who commit public massacres. The interview appeared on ABC News. In eight minutes, Dr. I was particularly impressed that Mullen invokes cultural scripts as central to understanding why these men do what they do. Mullen compares these mass killings to the Malaysian amok, a recognized “culture-bound syndrome” often defined as a “spree of killing and destruction (as in the expression “run amok”) followed by amnesia or fatigue.” Mullen also counters the common explanation in the United States and elsewhere that these killers must somehow be insane or mad. As Dr. He expanded on this view in an earlier interview with ABC News: They’re almost all male, there is one exception.
JAMA Network | Archives of General Psychiatry | The Intricate Link Between Violence and Mental DisorderResults From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Jared Lee Loughner – Is Mental Illness the Explanation for What He Did? Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Neuroanthropology, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Clinical psychologist and writer Vaughan Bell has written a powerful piece, Crazy Talk, for Slate. Jared Lee Lougher, the suspect in the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the death of six people in Arizona, is clearly a disturbed young man – The Huffington Post rounds up a quick profile of the man, including his MySpace page and odd YouTube videos. As Dr. Bell points out, many media sources and comments online are already focusing on the idea that Loughner is schizophrenic, and that explains what he did, end of story. This is wrong.
For many, the investigation will stop there. Bell turns to the work of Oxford psychiatrist Seena Fazel (website here), who has done epidemiological work on mental illness and violence. Bell takes us through an analogy. Link to Vaughan Bell’s Slate piece, Crazy Talk New York Times: Suspect’s Odd Behavior Caused Growing Alarm. Schizophrenia and Violence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Abstract Background Although expert opinion has asserted that there is an increased risk of violence in individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses, there is substantial heterogeneity between studies reporting risk of violence, and uncertainty over the causes of this heterogeneity.
We undertook a systematic review of studies that report on associations between violence and schizophrenia and other psychoses. In addition, we conducted a systematic review of investigations that reported on risk of homicide in individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses. Methods and Findings Bibliographic databases and reference lists were searched from 1970 to February 2009 for studies that reported on risks of interpersonal violence and/or violent criminality in individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses compared with general population samples.
Conclusions Schizophrenia and other psychoses are associated with violence and violent offending, particularly homicide. Figures Editors' Summary. Thoughts on Founding Fathers. More thoughts on US presidents. Xaviers thoughts on US presidents. Xavier on Obama. Benjamin Franklin on Germans. The Last Ditch -- Henry Gallagher Fields on GEORGE WASHINGTON -- THE DARK SIDE.
Www.thornwalker.com/ditch/fields_wash.htm George Washington: The dark side By HENRY GALLAGHER FIELDS No, this is not going to be a salacious soap opera about George Washington's fondness for femmes of a sable hue; I leave that to the licensed fabulists of African American History and Legend Month. Instead I'm going to tackle a more serious topic: G.W. as the father of American tyranny. Now, libertarians and conservatives, even those of the paleo ilk, are willing to express negative views about many other presidents, but they tend to revere old Washington as a veritable icon. However, in the presidential pantheon of horrors — which includes such obvious thugs as Dishonest Abe, Tee Are, Woody Wilson, Efdee Are, Elbee Jay, Tricky Dicky, and the Bushmen — it can reasonably be said that Washington contributed the most in the devolution of America from freedom to slavery. That government which governs best governs not at all, as lanky Hank Thoreau put it.
George. February 21, 2005. 9/11 - Hard Facts, Hard Truth - Bin Laden 'Confession' Tapes. Defenders of the 'official story' like to point out to the skeptics of 9/11 that Osama Bin Laden was caught on video proudly confessing to the crime in front of a group of his peers. The now famous 'confession' video was released in December of 2001 by the Department of Defense under growing international pressure to provide definitive proof tying Bin Laden to 9/11. And the defenders of the government's narrative present this oft-broadcast video as tidy proof of that narrative's validity. But as with so much of the 'evidence' covered at length in this paper, this 'definitive' proof is riddled with conflicting facts, quantum leaps in judgment, and, ultimately, inadvertent support not for the official story, but for the very skepticism about 9/11 that the 'proof' was meant to quell.
First of all, Bin Laden's initial reaction to 9/11 was not to take credit for the crime at all. We've been asked to accept without question his other statements of 'confession'. This is not hyperbole. Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001? In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? 1 Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001.
(Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers,2 and it even provided the basis for a BBC special.3) Pointing out that the only evidence to the contrary consists of “messages from bin Laden” in the form of audiotapes and videotapes that have appeared since 2001, I devoted one chapter to an examination of the most important of these tapes, showing that none are demonstrably authentic and that some are almost certainly fakes. In the chapter preceding that examination, I discussed two videotapes containing purported interviews of Osama bin Laden in the fall of 2001, when the issue was whether he had been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. I suggested that both of these tapes, in which bin Laden allegedly admitted his responsibility, were fakes. 1. Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990. US statistics.