'Words Fail': Tapper Breaks Down Conspiracy Theories about Paul Pelosi Attack

Nov 1, 2022 | CNN's Jake Tapper breaks down the conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, and says that the smears are an attempt to justify the violence.

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Stelter Rips Trump's Embrace of Conspiracy Theories

CNN's Brian Stelter says President Donald Trump embraces conspiracy theories to evade responsibility, deflect blame and fire up his political base.

Conspiracy Theories and Rumours in Trump's America - The Listening Post

On The Listening Post this week: Conspiracy theories and rumours swirl in Washington, DC as media and the American public try to make sense of it all. Plus, the evolution of headline writing. Contributors: Adam H. Johnson – Media Analyst, FAIR; Marcy Wheeler – Independent Journalist; Oksana Boyko – Host, RT; Michael S. Schmidt – National Security Reporter, New York Times

The Diana Conspiracy: Documentary

With access to new documents from the Paris crash investigation and exclusive never before seen interviews, this documentary examines the conspiracies surrounding Princess Diana's death, how they came to be, and why people believe in them so fervently.

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Pope's Resignation Sparks Conspiracy Theories
Benedict XVI's shock resignation has set tongues wagging as some Italians question why he has become the first Pope for nearly 600 years to step down.

The Former British Police Officer Who Wants to Bring Down Barack Obama
THE GUARDIAN: Conspiracist prominent in movement claiming president is an imposter

Obama as a child with his mother. Photo: The Guardian
Neil Sankey has spent his life investigating organised crimes. As a former British police officer with almost 20 years experience, he was seconded to elite units of Scotland Yard through most of the 1970s and now runs his own private detective agency in California.

Over the years he has been involved in some big investigations. As part of the Special Branch and Bomb Squad he monitored British leftwing groups and the IRA, and in America his clients have included several big car companies.

But never has he handled anything quite as monumental as the investigation that is absorbing his energies today.

Sankey is pursuing what he believes to be fraud on a gigantic scale — a conspiracy, no less, to infiltrate and destroy the free world by putting a foreign imposter into the White House.

Sankey is a member of the fringe alliance known widely as the Birthers (he dislikes the expression, considering it pejorative). Together with other activists, he seeks to prove that Barack Obama is not a true American and is therefore ineligible to be president. >>> Ed Pilkington in New York | Sunday, November 22, 2009

7/7 Ripple Effect: The “Documentary” which Blames “the British and Israeli Secret Services” for the 7/7 Bombings

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A Question of Trust in Pakistan, the Land of the Conspiracy Theory
THE TELEGRAPH: Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, met President George W Bush yesterday on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York.

Mr Zardari is seeking to mend fences with his ally in the "war on terror" after his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf, was less than candid about the Muslim state's covert support for the Afghan Taliban.

But Mr Zardari faces an even greater challenge at home, where many Pakistanis see the rising tide of Islamist violence as part of a foreign conspiracy or, even, something to be supported if it harms America.

Western observers thought that Saturday's bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which killed 53 people and wounded more than 260, would shock ambivalent Pakistanis into supporting their government's crackdown on home-grown terrorists. But it has merely highlighted just how confused and conspiracy-riddled is Pakistan's popular opinion.

Many I met on the streets of the capital believe the blast was caused by a "foreign hand", a reference that usually denotes anyone from India, Afghanistan, Israel and Russia to the United States. A Question of Trust in Pakistan, the Land of the Conspiracy Theory >>> By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad | September 24, 2008

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The Muslims’ fascination with rumours and conspiracy theories
GULF NEWS: The Muslim world seems to be in the grip of all kinds of rumours. The willingness of large numbers of Muslims to believe some outrageous assertions reflects pervasive insecurity coupled with widespread ignorance.

The contemporary Muslim fascination for conspiracy theories limits the capacity for rational discussion of international affairs. For example, a recent poll indicates that only 3 per cent of Pakistanis believe that Al Qaida was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the US, notwithstanding Osama Bin Laden and his deputies have taken credit for the attacks on more than one occasion.

The acceptance of rumours and the readiness to embrace the notion of a conspiracy does not apply exclusively to the realm of politics. Villagers in rural Nigeria are refusing to administer the polio vaccine to their infant children out of fear that the vaccine will make their offspring sterile.

Some religious leaders in Pakistan's Pashtun tribal areas bordering Afghanis-tan have also voiced concerns about a "Western-Zionist conspiracy" to sterilise the next generation of Muslims as part of what they allege is an "ongoing war against Islam". Reasons for decline of the Muslim world (Read on)

Mark Alexander