World-News

Roy Eidelson, Truthout: ''In 2005, despite evidence that psychologists were involved in abusive and torturous interrogations of national security detainees, [the] American Psychological Association (APA) ... concluded that psychologists play a critical role in keeping such interrogations 'safe, legal, ethical and effective'....With this stance, the APA, the largest association of psychologists worldwide, became the sole major professional health care organization to support practices contrary to the international human rights standards that ought to be the benchmark against which professional codes of ethics are judged.''

http://www.truth-out.org/four-psychologists-gates-hell/1326912829



Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now

Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto, Foreign Policy in Focus: ''History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. The ?tragedy? occurred half a century ago when CIA-funded psychological research on electroshock treatment, sensory deprivation and the like found its way into the Agency?s counterintelligence interrogation manual. The ?farce? was played post-9/11, as psychologists became involved once again in aiding counterintelligence interrogators?. Psychologists were complicit in designing and using techniques to break subjects rather than aid them, and in so doing they made a mockery of their ethical obligation to ?do no harm.?"

http://www.truth-out.org/psychologists-and-torture-then-and-now/1330792502

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Obama s Human Rights Insouciance
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts339.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Psychological+Association
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=psychologist
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interrogat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=abuse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roy+Eidelson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pallitto
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