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A fellow named Mark Dice apparently will be protesting the 2012 Bilderberg meetings, which begin later later this month in Virginia. If he goes through with it, he will be taking up in the tradition of Daniel Estulin and Alex … Continue reading →

Found this posted on a group called New Mexicans for Science and Reason …

You can read the details here. Richard Gage, whom I’ve profiled here, is a mild-mannered guy — the farthest thing from an anti-Semite in my experience. Rather, this is an example of how conspiracism causes cranks to make bedfellows with … Continue reading →

Wilfrid Laurier University history professor Michael Sibalis has published a fascinating synopsis and analysis of conspiracy theories relating to the death of Napoleon — a subject not covered at all in Among The Truthers, or any other source I have … Continue reading →

WorldNetDaily, best known for its continuing promotion of Barack Obama Birther conspiracy theories, has been writing up various stories about the death of Andrew Breitbart — in large part, apparently, on the the theory that his death may have something … Continue reading →

The Coeur d’Alene Press in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is promoting an aluminum sub-variant of the “chemtrail” conspiracy theory. They are even running an online poll off the newspaper’s front page that asks readers whether they are “concerned” with the issue. … Continue reading →

One of the most interesting phenomena I discovered while researching Among The Truthers is the manner by which radical leftists and radical right-wingers have come to embrace the very same conspiracy theories. In the case of the 9/11 Truth movement, … Continue reading →

C-SPAN has just broadcast my April 2 debate against mega-Truther Webster Tarpley at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Click here for the full 1:41:34 video.

The Daily Mail has a fascinating piece on the destruction of David Icke’s marriage to Pamela Leigh Richards. (Richards knew things were going downhill when Icke began suspecting that she was showing lizard-like properties — never a good sign in … Continue reading →

Here’s the Canadian cover …

That was one weird evening! My friend and National Post editor Jonathan Kay came to Washington yesterday to promote his (excellent) study of conspiracy theorists, Among the Truthers, at an evening event at the Washington Spy Museum. Jon had the … Continue reading →

9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops: An Evening of Debate with David Frum, Jonathan Kay, and Webster Tarpley Washington D.C. Spy Museum, 800 F Street NW, Monday, April 2, 6:30pm

This guy has read his Barkun … In a small, dark room, a mysterious, shadowy elite gathers to decide the fate of the world. This elite has been plotting for centuries and has had membership in all of the world’s … Continue reading →

Conservative media dot-com magnate Andrew Breitbart died from natural causes on Thursday at the age of 43. Already, his death has spawned theories that he was assassinated by allies of Barack Obama, on the notion that he was about to … Continue reading →

Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay quotes Joseph Bottum on cranks: “There are three infallible signs of the crank. … The first is that he has  theory about the Jews. The second is that he has a theory about money. And the … Continue reading →

Filmmaker Teace Snyder has produced a decently-acted 20-minute 9/11-Truth-themed melodrama about a father and his 10-year-old daughter who begin fighting after she delivers a speech to her elementary school class in which she claims the Sept. 11 attacks were an … Continue reading →

On the New York Times web site, James Kirchick has a very good piece about Ron Paul’s penchant for conspiracy theories. Here is part of it: In a 1990 C-Span appearance, taped between Congressional stints, Paul was asked by a … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: We too rarely hear from former conspiracy theorists, who are in the best position to teach us how people can escape from the conspiracist rabbit hole. That’s why Dan Smeenk’s story is worth reading. (The secret of his … Continue reading →

I finally got around to watching this great New York Times video demystifying the famous “Umbrella Man” from the JFK Zapruder film. Well worth the six minutes it takes to watch.

A Canadian conspiracy theorist named Pepper Chomsky says he has spent 16 years writing a psychically-inspired book about the “mysterious” circumstances surrounding the death of John Lennon. Here is an excerpt from a promotional mass mailing he’s sending around to … Continue reading →

McMaster University sociology professor Neil Mclaughlin has a forthcoming paper in the journal Cultural Sociology titled: The International Circulation of Attacks and the Reputational Consequences of Local Context: Soros’ difficult reputation in Russia, Post-Soviet Lithuania and the United States. Here … Continue reading →

Here is a transcript of the speech I gave at Bard College’s Arendt Center. For those readers who might be interested in my general take on conspiracy theories, but don’t want to slog through my book, this provides a good … Continue reading →

… This John Birch Society video about Gingrich is making the rounds of the right-wing conspiracist discussion boards. Upshot: Gingrich has supported foreign aid, Nelson Rockefeller, free trade with China — all of which supposedly tells us that he is … Continue reading →

After wading through endless conspiracy theories about how Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, of the False Prophet, or some such, it is refreshing to find someone who makes these accusations in regard to a Republican: Herman, Cain to be precise. … Continue reading →

It’s hard to think of a more far-fetched conspiracy than one that involves Israel and Iran. But nothing is too far-fetched for the anti-Semites at the Veterans Today web site. According to Veterans Today, the focus of the Israel-Iran nexus … Continue reading →

In response to one of my recent columns about Shakespeare conspiracy theories, I got a note from author Lev Raphael, who has written a fascinating article about a conspiracy theory that, I confess, I had never heard of. Raphael’s article … Continue reading →

There’s a movement afoot to bring the Occupy protestors to the rebuilt WTC Building 7, where they can join the “millions of citizens and 1,600 courageous architects and engineers [who] are demanding an investigation into the suspect destruction of this … Continue reading →

You can’t make this stuff up. In fact, it’s hard to even summarize in a coherent way. Suffice it to say that there’s a fellow named Mario Apuzzo, who cites the work of Martha Trowbridge, in arguing that Barack Obama … Continue reading →

Here’s something that arrived in my AmongTheTruthers inbox the other day: I am wondering what are your thoughts by the admitted links between Alex Jones and Ron Paul’s own Campaign for Liberty?  There are a lot of videos of Alex … Continue reading →

‘There are three infallible signs of the crank,” Catholic intellectual Joseph Bottum has written. “The first is that he has a theory about the Jews. The second is that he has a theory about money. And the third is that … Continue reading →

A new conspiracy theory from Japan, via American Free Press : A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the … Continue reading →

Back in late 2009, when many still believed that Sarah Palin was the future of American politics, left-wing filmmakers Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll took their camera to a Borders book store in Columbus, Ohio, where the former Alaska governor … Continue reading →

Turns out they’re into 7/7 conspiracy theories as well.

A century ago, a prominent Russian anarchist named Peter Kropotkin defined his creed as a “theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government.” In such a society, order is created “not by submission to law, or … Continue reading →

A friend of mine who is a syndicated columnist in the United States recently published a column ticking off all of Iran’s various outrages — including throwing three innocent hikers into prison. That attracted this email from a conspiracy theorist … Continue reading →

Three lawyers and their client who claim that Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks piled one mistake on top of another on their way to … Continue reading →

“They have more people in the CIA, the FBI. They have an employment office for Mormons in D.C. to be able to infiltrate them into the government … They’ve been trying since the beginning to get someone in the presidency, … Continue reading →

… Despite the fact that, as WND’s own report admits, the Centers for Disease Control concludes “there was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine.” p.s. Note the headline … Continue reading →

… from xkcd

I’ve written in the past about right-wing conspiracy theorists’ obsession with George Soros. But this week brought an interesting twist: The right-wing Birther/Evangelical conspiracy site WorldNetDaily has an article entitled “Why U.S. military in Uganda? George Soros’ fingerprints all over … Continue reading →

Here’s a very interesting blog post by John Mearsheimer responding to Jeffrey Goldberg’s claim that Mearsheimer wrote a favourable blurb for a book by an author whom Goldberg alleges to have holocaust-revisionist tendencies. Mearsheimer says that this description of the … Continue reading →

This article by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross originally appeared on the Gunpower & Lead blog, and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Last night a student journalist sent me an inquiry about Osama bin Laden’s death — inquiring whether I “really believe … Continue reading →

“’9/11 conspiracy theories ridiculous’ says al-Qaeda” — The Onion, April, 2008 Hilarious! Could exist only in satire, right? Wrong. Three years later, we have this … “The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it … Continue reading →

George Soros is old. He is rich. He is left-wing. And he gives away his money — a lot of it — to a lot of different left-wing groups in a lot of different parts of the world. Put together … Continue reading →

Medved’s various references to Joseph Farah and “World Nut Daily” spawned this rebuttal on WND …

On Sept. 11, 2011, the Pacifica Radio Network asked me to conduct a debate on the subject of 9/11 with several conspiracy theorists, Ted Fletcher and Kevin Ryan. Here is the 3-minute opening statement I was asked to deliver, defending … Continue reading →

By Maurizio Cocco Today’s financial crisis has hit Italy hard. And it looks like Italians are looking for conspiracist explanations to explain their  problems. For the last 150 years (Italy’s unification was accomplished in 1861) it’s been very Italian to … Continue reading →