Michael C. Ruppert’s From the Wilderness website was a go-to source for me when I was more than a little bit obsessed with conspiracy theories. Ruppert’s research uncovered lots of connections between the C.I.A. and the crack cocaine epidemic and his film Collapse and its companion book, Confronting Collapse, both offered a chilling summing-up of the end of the age of oil.
Ruppert’s Lifeboat Hour talk show was his most recent project. After his April 13th show, Ruppert shot himself, making this episode a kind of accidental eulogy that finds Ruppert speaking with his guests, Carloyn Baker and Mimi German, about coping with the stress of fighting to make the world a better place.
Here’s the show…
It’s true that big industry, big government, big medicine and big business give us all plenty of reasons to question their veracity. That said, speaking truth to power and uncovering the lies in high places can be treacherous work and it’s important to remember that the biggest conspiracy theory of all is the one that finds you questioning every lie but your own. Ruppert wrote himself into a story where the hero had to die in the end. I wish he hadn’t believed that one.
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