Government & Politics Theories

Claims surrounding Korean Air Lines Flight 007, including espionage, cover-up, and intentional provocation narratives.

The false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was therefore ineligible for the presidency.

Claims that 15-minute city urban planning is a plot to confine residents to districts.

Claims that Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was abducted, defected, or killed rather than drowning.

A label for liberal or anti-Trump conspiracy claims, including overextended claims about hidden coordination or staged events.

Claims that Dominion voting machines or coordinated ballot fraud changed the 2020 US presidential election outcome.

Militia-era claims that unmarked black helicopters signaled UN or federal occupation plans.

The Milwaukee Police Department's May 27, 1991 return of 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (fleeing from Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment) back to Dahmer, despite bystander objections. The victim was killed that night. This incident and broader investigative failures are well-documented; claims of intentional protection remain contested.

The October 2, 2018 assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The US Intelligence Community's February 2021 declassified assessment concluded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation.

Claims that Freemasonry — a 300-year-old fraternal organization — exercises secret control over governments, the Catholic Church, and world finance through esoteric initiation rituals and networks.

Claims that Denver International Airport (opened 1995) houses an underground New World Order bunker, hosts occult murals, and that its dedication capstone contains coded Freemason messages.

An annual summer retreat held at a 2,700-acre private campground in California's redwoods since 1878, attended by business executives, politicians, and cultural figures. Centered on the "Cremation of Care" ritual — an allegorical pageant involving a 40-foot owl effigy.

An annual private conference of ~130 political leaders, corporate executives, academics, and media figures that meets behind closed doors. Founded 1954, often alleged to be a shadow world government coordinating global policy.

A loose coalition of researchers and activists who reject the official account of the September 11, 2001 attacks, alleging government foreknowledge, controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, or a staged Pentagon strike.

The collection of theories around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death in federal custody (officially ruled suicide) and the identity of powerful associates implicated in his trafficking network.