Urban Legends, Urban Truths
The 1998 B-list slasher film Urban Legend unleashes on its protagonists a host of horrors from the American folk canon. Some have their roots in real life.
20401 Article(s) by: Rob McIntyre
Rob McIntyre is a United Workers Union delegate at the Toll Kmart warehouse in Truganina.
The Family That Slays Together Stays Together
The Manson Family left a trail of bodies in 1969. No one should have been surprised.
The QAnon Shaman Speaks!
And he sounds like . . . a hippie?
Havana Syndrome Can’t Be Cured
Even the CIA has debunked “Havana syndrome” — the belief that hypersonic weapons are making American diplomats sick — but diehards in the media and Congress won’t let it go.
Conspiracy Theory Is Dead
It’s now impossible to distinguish “conspiracy theories” from the day-to-day hysteria of our era of hyperpolitics.
How Lyndon LaRouche Said Goodbye to Marxism and Hello to Crazy
Lyndon LaRouche started off lecturing about dialectics and Rosa Luxemburg. By the 1980s, he was Glenn Beck with a private security force.
Scientists Don’t Say
From lab leaks to mask efficacy, the media enforcement of scientific consensus through a policing of which questions are acceptable to ask is itself unscientific.
The Man Behind the Curtain
How hedge fund manager George Soros became enemy number one of the international right.
Issue 49: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
The South African Blame Game
The colonial history of South Africa lives on in conspiracy theories about the “Third Force,” but it’s not secret external enemies plaguing South Africa today — it’s the country’s own ruling class.
Latin America’s Very Own Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina fueled antisemitic fears of the Andinia Plan, a supposed Jewish plot to create a homeland in Latin America.
The Land of Milk and Honey
The Caribbean has a reputation for its lenient tax laws, but the United States is the second-biggest tax haven in the world.
Ancient Hindu Aeronautics
Hindu nationalists insist that, thousands of years ago, Indians were already equipped with modern knowledge of science and technology, only to be undermined by centuries of foreign invasion.
A Killer in the Castle
What actually happened to Nepal’s royal family on June 2, 2001?
We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11
New evidence further implicates Saudi intelligence in the September 11, 2001, attacks — and nobody seems to care.
Sea Change
There remains a fortune to be made at sea — but no longer in Somalia. Modern pirates have turned their attention to the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.
Illness as Metaphor
Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. Beginning in 2018, another two-year wave of the devastating disease caused a further 2,000 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These days, even when Ebola itself isn’t spreading, false conspiracy theories about it are.
Royal Treatment
People have been speculating about the British royal family for centuries. You decide which conjectures might be true.
When Uncle Sam Desperately Wanted to Whack Fidel
The Cold War’s greatest Road Runner and Coyote shit show.
Friends in High Places
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia — not to mention the man behind the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — has a host of American celebrity friends.