Martin Luther King

Image available from Robert Shetterly's series AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH

"This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - MLK
Martin Luther King
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 (aged 39)

Naomi Klein: The Commericalization of War - and mental health care

Image of electroshock (ECT) treatment from the 1950's. A single ECT treatment lasting seconds may give a doctor a fee over a thousand dollars - and leave the patient with permanent intellectual damage.

Naomi Klein video at The Guardian


The Shock Doctrine. When we or family members are ill, we may be misled, take bad advice and pay more for treatments than we would if we were well-informed.