I remember when I first tripped over David Icke at the bookstore. It was a truly terrifying experience. Like most demagogues, Icke mixes in a bit of truth with his fiction. For example, George Washington is totally posed as Baphomet in his Masonic museum statue. Does that make him the leader of some kind of [...]

As of April 2, 2012, Wikileaks has been under financial blockade for 486 days, Julian Assange has been under house arrest with no charge for 483 days and Breanna (Bradley) Manning has been held without charge for 680 days. Welcome to the new global police state, enforced by the United States. This isn’t hyperbole. Regardless [...]

The entire Internet was shocked last week when it was revealed that the Dutch Catholic Church castrated at least 10 boys for being homosexual in the 1950s. The big question, of course, is why anyone was shocked by this. The long history of the Roman Catholic Church is of one atrocity after another, from the [...]

Chances are you were as shocked and appalled as I was to find out that there were voting irregularities in the recent Russian elections: That is to say, not shocked or appalled in the least. That Russia is a “democracy” in only the most ludicrous and cynical sense of the word is hardly news. A [...]

Aleister Crowley is one of the most singularly interesting figures in the 20th Century. His varied career resume alone (poet, cult leader, mountain climber, recreational drug experimenter, social critic and occult historian) warrants examination in and of itself. I’ve long wrestled with what to make of Mr. Crowley. He’s a complicated historical figure, one who [...]

Conspiracy theory, around the time I graduated college, ceased being a way of looking at the world. Rather, it was a form of an entertainment — and one that I hoped to use as a hustle. My intentions weren’t entirely ignoble. I wanted to put out a good product… at a fair price, of course, [...]

Most conspiracy theorists avoid a conspiracy like the plague. The term itself has a negative connotation. In the CT community, it’s spoken of in bitter, spiteful tones, and referred to by epithets like “New World Order” or “Illuminati.” Conspiracy theorists think of shadowy groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. For [...]

David Icke wasn’t my first trip down the black hole of conspiracy theory. The pre-Internet bulletin board systems were a teeming marketplace of strange ideas. I also bore the distinct (mis)fortune of living near Providence, RI’s semi-world-famous Newspeak, home of Paranoia magazine. However, what really introduced me to the full palate of weird was an [...]

Blame it on age: I was 14 when Timothy McVeigh and his cohorts blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City (or did they… cue evil laughter). I was also an early adopter of the Internet and before that, bulletin board systems. Late nights spent downloading text files dedicated to Project Bluebook and Majestic-12 caused [...]