‘QAnon’ ('Anon' for anonymous) is the name given to a pro-Trump conspiracy and ‘sectarian’ phenomenon that appeared in October 2017 on the forums 4chan and 8chan (since renamed 8kun). Its followers believe in the existence of a satanist pedophile criminal organization (the ‘Cabal’) involving prominent figures from the Democratic Party as well as the Clintons, […]
The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who settled in the Caucasus between the 6th and 13th centuries. Since the 19th century, intellectuals like Ernest Renan, Arthur Koestler or Shlomo Sand have presented the Khazars as the distant ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. This contested theory, which […]
The Trilateral Commission was created in 1973 by American businessman David Rockefeller (1915-2017) as a forum for discussion among decision-makers from North America, the European Union and Japan (hence the name "Trilateral"). According to its website, the Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental organization that brings together thought leaders from across sectors: business, political, academia, the […]
The Bilderberg Meeting — named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, in the Netherlands, where its first meeting was held in May 1954 — was initiated during the Cold War by former Polish diplomat Joseph Retinger and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The aim was strengthening ties between Western Europe and North America. The Bilderbger […]
'The Great Reset' was an initiative launched at the 51st meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2021. The aim was to unite people of goodwill to bring about a post-COVID-19 world that was more prosperous, cooperative and respectful of the environment and human beings, resolutely turning the page on neoliberalism (defined […]
The term 'active measures' (aktivinyye meropriatia in Russian) refers to strategies or techniques – "open" or secret – implemented by the Kremlin to influence foreign public opinion and actions. The measures include disinformation as well as infiltration or manipulation of youth organizations or trade unions, and the use of agents of influence and foreign pro-Russian […]
Anti-Zionism is usually accompanied by a refusal to consider there is such a thing as a Jewish people with the right to freely choose its destiny within the framework of a sovereign nation-state. Portraying Zionism in a negative light, such as by likening it to a type of racism (as illustrated in a 1975 United […]
The misnamed flat Earth ‘theory’ is a denial of scientific proof that the Earth is round. It is based on the belief of a widespread global conspiracy involving governments and space agencies worldwide, with the goal of convincing humanity that the Earth is actually shaped like a disc. Research suggests that YouTube has been key […]
The denunciation of globalism is commonplace in extremist rhetoric. French political scientist Jean-Yves Camus recalls that "the term globalism is a neologism that appeared in the early 1980s in the conspiracy circles of the antisemitic far-right [...] to designate the so-called concerted action of secret societies, economic interest groups or lobbies to achieve the establishment […]
