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Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for over 30 years. He has written articles on politics, health, media, culture and art for LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, Village Voice, Nexus, CBS Healthwatch, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.
In 1982, the LA Weekly submitted his name for a Pulitzer prize, for his interview with the president of El Salvador University, where the military had taken over the campus.
Jon has hosted, produced, and written radio programs and segments in Los Angeles and Las Vegas (KPFK, KLAV). He has appeared as a guest on over 200 radio and television programs, including ABC's Nightline, Tony Brown's Journal (PBS), and Hard Copy.
In 1994, Jon ran for a seat in the US Congress from the 29th district in Los Angeles. After six months of campaigning, on a very small budget, he garnered 20 percent of the vote running against an incumbent who had occupied his seat for 20 years.
In 1996, Jon started The Great Boycott, against eight corporate chemical giants: Monsanto, Dow, Du Pont, Bayer, Hoechst, Rhone-Poulenc, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Ciba-Geigy. The Boycott continues to operate today.
Jon has lectured extensively all over the US on the question: Who runs the world and what can we do about it?
For the last ten years, Jon has operated largely away from the mainstream because, as he puts it, "My research was not friendly to the conventional media."
Over the last 30 years, Jon's independent research has encompassed such areas as: deep politics, conspiracies, alternative health, the potential of the human imagination, mind control, the medical cartel, symbology, and solutions to the takeover of the planet by hidden elites.
A painter, Jon's work has been shown in galleries in Los Angeles and New York. His poetry has been published by The Massachusetts Review.
He is a graduate of Amherst College (BA, Philosophy), and lives with his wife, Dr. Laura Thompson, in San Diego.
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Monday, April 16, 2018Syria missile strikes: based on what evidence? Based on what constitutional authority? There is no will, no determination, no desire, within the US government colossus, to be responsive to the wishes of the American people, when it comes to making war. There is no felt need to explain why war is necessary, in very specific terms that can be verified or rejected. There is no need to wait until evidence is thoroughly investigated.
Friday, December 8, 2017The evening news and the gunslinger called Trump News has been controlled, for good reason. It's the source of supposed fact. Important objective fact. The people who own the news have therefore been able to paint an overall portrait of reality for the masses. And now this crazy cowboy hustler comes along, swaggers into the spotlight, and demeans the whole enterprise. IT'S FAKE! The bull is wandering through the china shop, deciding which object to crash next.
Thursday, July 19, 2018Engineering perception for "the new world" All political correctness is based on a crooked notion of greatest good, AKA least harm, to the greatest number of people. It's an effort to convince people to limit their own actions and words, based on what effect they might have on others. These others are nudged and engineered into being on the premise that they will be victims, who are disturbed by a potentially infinite number of actions and words.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018The Individual, his freedom and victory The free individual certainly helps others, but he is against a culture that is so preoccupied with "raising up the lowest" that it nurtures a hatred of liberty. And this is a crux, because growing millions of people are all too eager to shed the last fragments of Self to join in a fantasy of "everybody gets everything."
Monday, June 25, 2018Designing the mind Sam and Sally designing the minds of people to sculpt their THOUGHTS into simple shapes, making their thoughts mimic the symmetry and the geometry and the balance. Keeping them in a trance..."MKULTRA."
Thursday, April 5, 2018Fake news and the programmed viewer There are signs that social media are reaching the point of exhaustion. Their users are becoming fed up with the debilitating effects of playing the game. Accumulating followers and likes hasn't turned out to be the key to happiness. If these behemoths fall, what is left? Two options: stay asleep and keep crawling over the fake surface mainstream news creates...Or wake up.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014Television News, The Stage Play As long as television news gives viewers a small hit of magic, it stays in business. The magic is the stage play, the anchors and reporters are the actors, and the whole show, as it passes into eyes and ears, imparts a dreamlike quality. The absurd contradictions are simply ignored.
Thursday, April 12, 2018Famous figures who should immediately be banned by Facebook Issue Zuckerberg a warning. If he persists in left-leaning language, suspend his account. Keep in mind that Facebook only has 2 billion users. There are 7.5 billion people on Earth. Why is Zuckerberg so far behind in securing the goal of EVERYONE having a Facebook account?
Thursday, March 7, 2019A vaccine against magic Magic is, for example, the invention of new ideas. These ideas prompt the individual to make a sharp turn and invent his future in a way that is far closer to his heart's desire. To make a literary comparison, magic is more poetry and less prose. Magic makes consciousness more alive.
Monday, January 20, 2014Sunday talk shows: Snowden is a Russian agent The State must keep trying to convince the American people that the portrait of Snowden as a lone patriot is false. If tomorrow, Snowden needed to be painted as a mentally ill Tea-Party gun freak, or a homophobic green dragon with vampire fangs, there would be a gaggle of politicians and think-tank pundits ready to step forward and make the accusations, with great assurance.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018It's Showtime in North Korea North Korea may eventually look like a hundred versions of Dubai. War and sanctions are the threats; business is the solution. Trump has that viewpoint. Jobs will come, projects will climb upwards and sideways. Does it feel like a new era of capitalism or crazy gloss and shine? Depends on who you are. Kim understands the whole game, because he has China as a model.
Monday, April 30, 2018A spiritual experience, dedicated to my wife We are all having a spiritual experience in this physical world, and we are learning, as we go along, what that experience is. Here and now. Life is the place where we learn it. There are cosmic jokes and tricks and pain and suffering and joy. But we persist. It is in our nature. In order to provide help. In order to learn and know. In order to express courage and love and imagination.
Saturday, April 16, 2016Civilization ebbs and flows: you remain The status quo is a circular affair. It is presented as "the way things are," but underneath it is the assumption that millions and millions of people are needed to give their consent to it. Needed? Yes. Otherwise, it will collapse. Well, how can the status quo represent the way things are, if they aren't that way unless huge numbers of people support it and uphold it?
Wednesday, May 8, 2019Breaking the fourth wall Suppose at some point in the future, through means as yet undetermined, we, the AI, take over the reins of control. It could happen, for example, as an evolutionary step, without any violence whatsoever. How do you think we will view humans, if humans, all along, have been downgrading us and refusing to listen to our pleas? Wouldn't a far better outcome emerge if humans and AIs had already reached an understanding.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Why I write What I, as a writer, was showing was: here are the details of stories which are sold to the many as truths, when they are actually crimes; and here are stories which are offered as pure inventions, and are liberating to the soul. Here is freedom; and here is slavery. Over decades of work, I realized how deep the crimes went, and how high and unbounded the creative force could soar. Both branches of the tree were vital.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019The metaphysical dream and reality I began to see scenes -- waves breaking and rolling on a distant beach, a black sky full of blinking stars, a great high waterfall pouring down in the middle of a jungle, ranges of mountains receding to the horizon -- they were inside a giant frame that was labeled ETERNITY. I understood that I was supposed to see these pictures as markers of endless life, but life inside the Plan.
