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Formerly sealed deposition transcripts of NXVIM “sex cult” leaders now online...
“Sex cult” leader Keith Raniere and his accomplice Nancy Salzman are both now awaiting sentencing after multiple felony convictions. But in 2009 and 2010 the pair were riding high on Seagram’s heiress...
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Author Steven Hassan misleads the media while criticizing others for doing...
Steven Hassan, author of the “The Cult of Trump,” a book that is very critical of those who mislead people, seems to have a problem with the facts himself. Hypocritically, Hassan lambasts President...
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“I often wonder if my cousins are members of a cult. They worship Donald Trump.”
CultNews recently received some interesting questions from a reader concerned about President Donald Trump. The reader said, “I often wonder if my cousins are members of a cult. They worship Donald...
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“Nature Boy” and the “cult” called “Carbonation”
By Joan Jones I became aware of the man known as Nature Boy nearly a year ago. I was following a YouTube channel whose objective was exposing an impostor pretending to be a psychologist. Periodically,...
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“Cult leader” Dave McKay is an old dog using old tricks he learned from even...
By Brian Birmingham Some basic background information for those readers who may be less familiar with the so-called “Jesus Christians” (JCs), led by American Dave McKay, who now lives in Melbourne,...
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Do old cults really change or just fade away?
By Brian Birmingham I recently interviewed a former member of the Roberts group (aka The Brethren, “Garbage Eaters”). The Roberts group, established and led by Jim Roberts, is known as one of the most...
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Book Review: “Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I learned from Life in a...
By Brian Birmingham Often when somebody exits an abusive group or relationship there’s an internal struggle in the person’s mind, in which one wonders about oneself, “How did I get involved in such a...
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An open letter to “kidney cult” leader David McKay
By Brian Birmingham Hey David, I know that you are online a lot and always interested in whatever attention that you receive. And there have been a couple of articles that have recently appeared about...
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Were minor children recruited into “Heaven’s Gate”?
By Brian Birmingham On the evening of Monday, April 5, 2021 I had the opportunity of being able to interview, at length, a man called Sawyer. Sawyer is an original member of the notorious group that...
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What is the legacy of Ole Anthony?
By Brian Birmingham In an effort to let Ole Anthony explain himself here is an excerpt from a “Primetime Live” interview he did with Dianne Sawyer November 21, 1991. Here Anthony discusses with Sawyer...
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Families torn apart by the cult “Heaven’s Gate”
By Brian Birmingham Following my interview with Sawyer, a former member of the Heaven’s Gate cult, I interviewed a man named Steven Hill, who is also a former member of Heaven’s Gate. Steven Hill was...
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Steve Hassan, the BITE model and Donald Trump
By Brian Birmingham I am a former member of an abusive authoritarian group, or “cult.” As a teenager I was placed, by my parents, in a “troubled teens” program,” which is now defunct. The program was...
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Slate report about Steve Hassan “Crusade”
By Brian Birmingham Slate recently reported about Steve Hassan’s “crusade” against what he calls the “Cult of Trump.” However, the article at times calls into question Hassan’s claims and expertise...
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“Rise of the Moors” is a stew concocted from other groups
By Brian Birmingham A group called “Rise of the Moors,” founded by Jahmal Latimer, received quite a bit of media attention recently. On July 3rd Latimer led ten followers on a march through Wakefield,...
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Hate is black and white online
By Brian Birmingham I once knew an older gentleman who lived near Mobile, Alabama. He called himself a “Christian” and he refused to read or study from any Bible other than a King James Version. He was...
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Interview with a former follower of QAnon
Brian Birmingham interviews Jitarth Jadeja BB: How long were you involved? JJ: I was a full fledged QAnon believer from January 2018 to June 2019, so 1.5 years. BB: Why did you stop? JJ: There’s no...
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The Moorish Science Temple founded by Noble Drew Ali is the earliest known...
By Brian Birmingham The Moorish Science Temple of America is this country’s first and oldest so-called “Black nationalist” organization, as well as this country’s first and oldest “Black Muslim”...
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Exploiting the painful “cult” experience of Ginni Thomas is wrong.
By Rick Alan Ross Recently a video from the 1980s of Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was released online. It features Thomas talking about her involvement in a cultic...
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Rudolf Steiner, Racism and Waldorf Schools
By Paddy McEvoy First allow me to explain my interest in this question. I had been teaching in England, in state schools, for over 20 years, before moving over to Steiner/Waldorf education. It was in...
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ABC News show GMA3 promotes purported “cult” leaders as inspirational...
By Rick Alan Ross ABC GMA3 hosted leaders of a purported “cult” and asked them to dispense marital advice on what a show segment called “Faith Friday.” Michael and Monica Berg, leaders of the so-called...
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