The term 'psyops' is an abbreviation of psychological operations. It refers to communication tactics and propaganda using psychology to try to influence a rival or enemy behavior in a conflict setting. The strategy can include activities like dropping leaflets behind enemy lines in an attempt to demoralize troops, encourage desertion, or undermine civilian support. Such […]
HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is the name of an American research program on the ionosphere, defined by NASA as where Earth's atmosphere reaches space. The HAARP facility, jointly funded by the US Air Force Research Laboratory and the US Naval Research Laboratory, was located near Gakona, Alaska. The program started in the early 1990s and […]
'Pizzagate' refers to a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton is secretly involved in a pedophile network whose crime hub is a Washington pizzeria, the Comet Ping Pong. This theory, circulating among the pro-Trump American conspiracy far-right, is based on a distorted reading of Democratic Party emails. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, would have coded […]
America's Frontline Doctors is an anti-vaxxer, pro-hydroxychloroquine collective of medical practitioners that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis. It is closely tied to the conservative American Tea Party Patriots Action organization. The group gained notoriety in July 2020, when the far-right website Breitbart posted a live video featuring a group of doctors dressed in white coats […]
John Pilger (1939-2023) was an Australian journalist who gained notoriety through his writings and public comments on conflicts and war zones in countries including Venezuela, Ukraine and Syria. The veteran reporter first earned a reputation and garnered awards in the 1960s and 1970s as an independent journalist covering the Vietnam war, Cambodia under the Khmer […]
Sovereign Citizens emerged in the United States in the 1970s, denying the legitimacy of the federal government and the jurisdiction of the courts in cases involving its followers. The movement has enjoyed a resurgence since the COVID-19 pandemic. Sovereign Citizens' ideology has been invoked by multiple rioters convicted in the January 6, 2021 attacks on […]
‘QAnon’ ('Anon' for anonymous) is the name given to a pro-Trump conspiracy and ‘sectarian’ phenomenon that appeared in October 2017 on the forums 4chan and 8chan (since renamed 8kun). Its followers believe in the existence of a satanist pedophile criminal organization (the ‘Cabal’) involving prominent figures from the Democratic Party as well as the Clintons, […]
The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who settled in the Caucasus between the 6th and 13th centuries. Since the 19th century, intellectuals like Ernest Renan, Arthur Koestler or Shlomo Sand have presented the Khazars as the distant ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. This contested theory, which […]
The Trilateral Commission was created in 1973 by American businessman David Rockefeller (1915-2017) as a forum for discussion among decision-makers from North America, the European Union and Japan (hence the name "Trilateral"). According to its website, the Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental organization that brings together thought leaders from across sectors: business, political, academia, the […]
The Bilderberg Meeting — named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, in the Netherlands, where its first meeting was held in May 1954 — was initiated during the Cold War by former Polish diplomat Joseph Retinger and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The aim was strengthening ties between Western Europe and North America. The Bilderbger […]
