Most people understand that our political system has been hijacked by monied and corporate interests, what they don’t yet understand however is the extensive level of control exercised by the national security state through much less obvious means. Confessions of a DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail outlines how the appetites of high ranking officials render them vulnerable to blackmail, and how strong-arming operations are covered-up by complicit media and justice system personnel. Continue reading
April 2015
Karen Wetmore: Investigating CIA Experiments in Vermont
Karen Wetmore’s memoir, Surviving Evil: CIA Mind Control Experiments in Vermont, is a moving account of her childhood and confinement as a teenage psychiatric patient in Vermont hospitals. Like many survivors of extreme trauma, she still struggles to make sense of her experiences, but unlike most, she’s done years of investigative work, tracking down every available medical document related to her case. The records revealed she’d been treated by doctors listed as contractors of the CIA’s behavioral experimentation program MKUltra. After her book was published in 2014, she continued to ply the CIA with multiple FOIA requests. Their most recent non-response responses to her were telling enough, they claim the records she’d requested are still classified.
She says, “The Vermont press and the national press remain silent on the information I documented in my book, despite having been informed. A foreign journalist told me that he couldn’t understand why American journalists were not, as he put it, “All over this story.” Again I ask the question: What did CIA do in Vermont institutions that requires such measures to ensure secrecy fifty years later? Beginning in September 2013, I decided to try to find out.
Read the rest of her important revelations on Fire Dog Lake, or order her book.
Polyvore
Shattered Dreams
Another For Their Use
That Girl
Trapped Inside Her Head
Things In My Head
Sometimes It All Feels Pointless
Do You Want A Happy Girl Or The Truth
Someday It Will Be All Flowers And Kittens
Examples of Polyvore sets by Gaylin Laughlin. Used with permission.
At first glance, Polyvore seems like an unlikely place to harbor a community of trauma survivors using art to heal. Continue reading
Qualities and Knowledge Useful for Survivors and Therapists Working with Dissociative Identity
Brian, a therapist who has worked with survivors of severe trauma for more than 30 years, lays out the finer points of what’s important for both therapists and survivors in navigating a path to healing. –Eds.
Personhood
Tolerance for Ambiguity
Integrating a trauma narrative, especially if it is the result of sophisticated mind control procedures, is a complex and lengthy process where subjective states (hypnosis, drugs) and manipulated states (electric shock, psychic-driving, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation) are mixed with objective states (veridical memory of ritual/sexual abuse or any other experiences meant to terrorize.) Continue reading