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Joseph L. Flatley

Journalist, podcaster, author of New Age Grifter and books on cults, conspiracies and the culture of American decline. Publisher of Failed State Update.

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Norman Mailer and The Finders

By Joseph L. FlatleyMay 15, 2022
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The Poetry and Majesty of Conspiracy Theory

By Joseph L. FlatleyMay 5, 2022
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Lucien Greaves Receives Death Threat from Sovereign Citizen Group

By Joseph L. FlatleyMay 2, 2022
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The Failed State Jukebox Police Lip-Sync Battle

By Joseph L. FlatleyApr 9, 2022
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Whitmer Kidnapping Trial Ends: 2 Acquitted, 2 Facing Retrial

By Joseph L. FlatleyApr 8, 2022
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Whitmer Kidnapping Trial: The Hail Mary Pass

By Joseph L. FlatleyApr 1, 2022
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Prophets of (White) Rage

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 31, 2022
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How Putin and Trump are 'Defeating' the 'Deep State'

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 15, 2022
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The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Gabriel of Urantia

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 14, 2022
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Would You Buy a Vaccine Exemption From Gerald Celente?

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 9, 2022
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Baked Alaska: From Buzzfeed to the Capitol Riot in a Few Short Years

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 4, 2022
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RT America Shut Down, Cable News is Still a Dumpster Fire

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 4, 2022
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Interview with a Political Prisoner

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 3, 2022
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Profiles in Stupidity: Timothy McVeigh

By Joseph L. FlatleyMar 3, 2022
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America's 'COVID concentration camps'

By Joseph L. FlatleyFeb 21, 2022
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Failed State Jukebox: Ordo Ab Chao by Anthony J. Hilder and Evan Sweetwater

By Joseph L. FlatleyFeb 17, 2022
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Monarch Mind Control and the case of Frances Fox

By Joseph L. FlatleyFeb 17, 2022
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Profiles in Stupidity: Michael Flynn loses it (or perhaps never had it)

By Joseph L. FlatleyFeb 3, 2022
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Profiles in Stupidity: Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014)

By Joseph L. FlatleyFeb 2, 2022
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Profiles in Stupidity: Stew Peters in Uncanny Valley

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 31, 2022
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Failed State Jukebox: 'The Ave.' by Run-DMC

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 28, 2022
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RIP Havana Syndrome, we always had your number

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 28, 2022
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Failed State Update publisher charged with attempted murder

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 25, 2022
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The Boston Marathon Bombing 'truth' movement

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 24, 2022
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Sovereign citizens declare war on The Satanic Temple

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 20, 2022
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Failed State Jukebox: 'Pale Horse Rider' by William Cooper feat. Autumn Turner

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 19, 2022
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Pittsburgh's used conspiracy theory salesman

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 18, 2022
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Wayne Madsen on the New Fourth Reich

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 14, 2022
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Children of the Finders speak!

By Joseph L. Flatley and Tyler RabbitJan 12, 2022
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Did Wayne Madsen uncover a 2016 ‘Stop the Steal’ Plot?

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 11, 2022
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Jeff Jansen, Mark Taylor, and the Trump Prophecies

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 11, 2022
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Documentary filmmaker joins the Secret Space Program so you don’t have to

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 10, 2022
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Failed State Jukebox: 'Watch Out for Martial Law' by Carl Klang

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 9, 2022
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The new celebrity fallout shelters

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 9, 2022
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Choose your own insurrection: Three possible conspiracies behind Jan. 6

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 7, 2022
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Mutual Aid in Seattle

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 5, 2022
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Turning Point USA's onramp to fascism

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 4, 2022
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Failed State Jukebox: 'America' by Tom MacDonald

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 3, 2022
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Julian Assange on Silicon Valley surveillance barons and regime change

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 3, 2022
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R.I.P. Betty White, Illuminati Satanist

By Joseph L. FlatleyJan 2, 2022
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The end of the Epstein/Maxwell Saga?

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 29, 2021
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Merry UFO Cosmo-Cult Christmas!

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 24, 2021
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Mike Elk on the 21st century labor movement and unrecognized general strike

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 23, 2021
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The conspiracy cinema of Tom "cTom" Charley

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 22, 2021
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Timothy Leary's neoliberal outer space migration fixation

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 20, 2021
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SHOCKER: GOP operatives behind Kanye West spoiler campaign

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 17, 2021
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Alex Jones goes to Scamworld

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 17, 2021
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The Earth is Flat and 'They' Don’t Want You to Know

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 16, 2021
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Failed State Jukebox: (hed) p.e. live at DeepRockDrive

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 15, 2021
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Our favorite Republican operatives spill the dirt re: Jan 6

By Joseph L. FlatleyDec 15, 2021