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All My Stories
History in the Shadows: Seven Genuine Conspiracies that Shaped the Modern World.


The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Conspiracy theory explained.
Pamphlet with illustration from 1912 edition of Sergei Nilus' book. The captions (among occult symbols a version of the "Chariot" Tarot card) can be translated as "Thus we shall win", "Mark of antichrist”. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family The Protocols is one of the most widely distributed antisemitic texts in history, it promotes the ‘International Jewish conspiracy’: the belief that actions of politicians and events aroun


Dissecting the claim: Did the CIA poison a French town with LSD? The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning.
A photo from the magazine Point de Vue which shows a victim of the Pont-Saint-Esprit episode. For more than a week in late August 1951 an entire French town went mad. Postman Leon Armunier was one of the first to suffer bizarre symptoms, he was doing his rounds on August 16 when he began to become overwhelmed with hallucinations and nausea. He recounted in 2010: "It was terrible. I had the sensation of shrinking and shrinking, and the fire and the serpents coiling around my a


A Fourth Reich? Nazis in South America
No country can open its doors to this class of criminal and still sleep soundly. No nation crosses these dark boundaries of history with impunity.” – Argentine Journalist and writer Tomás Eloy Martínez [i] Savvy fascists could see the defeat of Italy and Germany even before the end of World War Two. As the Third Reich collapsed there was a mad scramble between the allies for German technology and minds, each was willing to excise the records of the most useful and less inf
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