As the hunt for fugitive ‘sovereign citizen’ police killer Dezi Freeman continues in Australian bushland, the double murder has highlighted the deadly threat from the globalised far-right conspiracist movement. On August 26, police officers arrived at Freeman’s rural property in Porepunkah to execute a search warrant into child sex allegations. Freeman, 56, opened fire, killing […]
Born in 1936 in Haynau (Silesia), Mahler grew up in Berlin after his family was forcibly displaced in 1945. A brilliant legal mind, he studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he became active in left-wing politics during the 1960s. Initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he mingled with figures such […]
Dan Bongino is a former Fox News host and top-rating far-right podcaster who popularized conspiracy theories about the so-called “Deep State” and the “stolen” 2020 U.S. presidential election. He also encouraged the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots and spent years disputing the facts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to combat it. Despite his […]
In dramatic scenes on Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr found himself subject to furious questioning by Democrats over his firing of the United States' entire 17-person vaccines expert advisory board and replacing it with a handpicked cabal of some of his favored anti-science conspiracy theorists. But instead of mea culpas during the hearings, Donald […]
It took barely 24 hours following the weekend assassinations of Democratic lawmakers from Minnesota, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife. While the suspected killer was still on the run, a swarm of far-right pro-Trump voices scrambled to spread conspiracies pinning the blame […]
It began on the evening of Sunday 25 May, when Emmanuel Macron arrived in Vietnam with his wife, Brigitte, at the start of an official tour of Southeast Asia. As the pair disembarked at Hanoi airport, a few press agency cameras caught a fleeting moment: Brigitte Macron’s hand moved toward her husband’s face. He appeared […]
For almost a century, right-wing extremists have been trying to introduce their conspiracist ideas into popular discourse. Through a number of central concepts, they want to dominate and distort political discussion and public opinion. ‘Umvolkung', a term used by the Nazis for the ‘re-Germanization’ of the diverse populations of Eastern Europe, has more recently been […]
It was once a fringe conspiracy theory confined mostly to the milieus of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Now the purely invented ‘white genocide’ concept— inspiration of far-right terrorists from the Christchurch mosque killer to the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue murderer, and the ideological evil twin of the racist ‘Great Replacement’ narrative— has gone mainstream. […]
Dan Bilzerian is a misogynist social media identity and cannabis merchant who markets a gun-toting, porn and gambling jetset lifestyle while hawking Holocaust denial and multiform anti-Jewish hate to his tens of millions of followers. The Florida-born 44 year-old is a failed Navy SEAL candidate who acquired Armenian citizenship in 2018. Bilzerian has been dubbed […]
It often takes just one offhand remark, misinterpreted picture, or joke that doesn’t land to start a conspiracy theory that subsequently never goes away. We’ve seen it happen time after time – World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein’s comment that the firefighting team working to save WTC 7 should be “pulled” serving as “proof” that […]
