Category Archives: General News

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 →

The latest issue of The Canadian Charger (which specializes in bashing Israel, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and spreading panic about the alleged health risks associated with wi-fi computer networks) informs us that “Ezra Levant is a Zionist who believes that every … Continue reading →

RFE/RL’s James Kirchick interviewed me about “the persistence of conspiracy theories.” The show can be heard here. The text of the interview appears here and below. Conspiracy theories have existed since the beginning of time, but they have found a … Continue reading →

“There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that [HPV] vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.”

From (who else?) WorldNetDaily: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has constituted a special law enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama released to the public … Continue reading →

Remember “Climategate?” That was the apparent scandal that began in 2009 when hackers downloaded and publicized thousands of emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. Climate-change skeptics claimed that the emails showed that scientists were … Continue reading →

If the Birthers are consistent, they really should demand to see Glen Rice’s birth certificate.

My latest National Post column — about the fake-anti-semitism story at York U. Here’s an excerpt … I found it interesting how quickly the story made the rounds of the internet. Within the space of a few hours on Monday … Continue reading →

Listen here. This week, Toronto hosted a conference of 9/11 skeptics. Most, but not all, of them believe that the CIA was secretly responsible for the attacks. They are part of an incredible movement of people who just don’t buy … Continue reading →

Readers of Among The Truthers will know that it was not intended as a debunking resource for 9/11 conspiracy theories. Still, I did prepare a short appendix to allow readers to refute the most common arguments offered by conspiracy theories. … Continue reading →

“Conspiracy theorists are, in a word, bores. A book about them can’t help but be a bit boring, too.“

I have a new article up on the Canadian news site The Mark explaining the significance of this week’s 9/11 conspiracist conference in Toronto — and why the whole movement is on the downswing. Here are the reasons I give … Continue reading →

Here’s Zerb’s latest — in which she seizes on an upcoming Toronto 9/11 Truth conference to recite the tired litany of conspiracist talking points about Building 7 and the like. (She wrote exactly the same kind of “news” piece seven … Continue reading →

… But he’s no 9/11 conspiracy theorist, as we learn in a great article in The First Post: Take the plane that struck the Pentagon. Many conspiracists say it wasn’t a plane but a missile. Eye-witnesses of a large plane … Continue reading →

Senior Diplomat Asks for Identification of Main Culprits behind 9/11 Attacks TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official and a career diplomat, Mohsen Pakaein, blames the American Neoconservatives for the September 11 attacks on the US, saying that Neocons … Continue reading →

In Western nations, 9/11 conspiracy theories are widespread, but they are still “dissident narratives” that are largely discredited or ignored by mainstream media, political organization and civil-society groups . Not so, in Muslim nations, as Eric Trager reports: In a … Continue reading →