It has the distinctive air of 1989. Or as Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad put it: “This is a Berlin Wall moment. Let’s tear this wall down. Then America will be safe without the Islamic Republic.” 1989 was not only a watershed because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was also the year Ayatollah […]
In recent weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller, the former Miss California who emerged as an anti-LGBTQ+ activist and recent convert to Catholicism, has thrust herself into the spotlight with antisemitic allegations linking global injustices to an opaque network of influence. Known for her reactionary positions on faith, politics, and social issues, Prejean Boller has faced widespread […]
On Thursday 29 January, comedian Bassem Youssef appeared as a guest on the show of antisemitic ideologue and professional disinformation entrepreneur and Brigitte Macron defamer Candace Owens. Far from distancing himself from his host’s wild claims—whose recent delirious excesses include allegations of the involvement of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and the French military in a […]
Discredited Doctor Mehmet Oz is a veteran peddler of medical pseudoscience who promoted hydroxychloroquine as a Covid “cure”. Long close to Donald Trump, and questioned over his close ties to the regime of Turkey’s autocratic leader Recep Erdogan, he repeatedly platformed antivaccine conspiracy theories and theorists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is now […]
Many figures whose works formed the basis of modern conspiracism have been usurped by their followers, as conspiracism has become more mainstream and more lucrative. Take British economist and academic Antony C. Sutton who wrote a trilogy of books in the mid 1970’s alleging a vast conspiracy between the United States and the Soviet Union […]
Thousands of demonstrators shot behind closed doors − with multiple reports that more than 16,500 people have been killed — hundreds of thousands injured, hundreds of executions scheduled. The repression unleashed against the Iranian people by the regime of the Mullahs has reached terrifying proportions. Faced with this methodical state violence, Ayatollah Khamenei and his […]
Rejected by historians, scientists and archaeologists but embraced by millions of readers, Erich von Däniken has died at 90. He became one of the most commercially successful purveyors of pseudo-archaeology and paranormal speculation of the late 20th century, reaching the height of his influence in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the peak of his […]
After years of abuse, ten people have been found guilty of cyber bullying Brigitte Macron. Their claims included outright lies about her gender as well as allegations around the nature of her relationship with her husband, President Emmanuel Macron. But the legal action won't stop there, with the couple also suing the American right-wing influencer […]
The verdict comes from the most powerful figure in the White House after Donald Trump. In Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles — the president’s chief of staff — described Vice President JD Vance as a “conspiracy theorist for a decade.” In the same profile, she labelled White House Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought […]
Within hours, a sprawling ecosystem of conspiracy theories metastasized across social platforms, pushed by far-left activists, Islamist and jihadi propagandists, and far-right influencers alike. Their political differences collapsed into a single, familiar pattern: blaming Jews - reframed as “Israel,” “Zionists,” or the Mossad - for their own murder. A mass-casualty attack against a Jewish community […]
