Michael C. Ruppert

Michael C. Ruppert (also Mike Ruppert , born February 3, 1951 in Washington, DC , † April 13, 2014 ) was an American author and journalist . He was the founder and editor-in-chief of From The Wilderness , a well-known political website in the US. The website and the associated newsletter deal primarily with the journalistic uncovering of state covert operations and the background analysis of political events.

Act

In his book Crossing the Rubicon , he wrote about the influence of declining global oil reserves (peak oil) on the realignment of geopolitics in the USA in recent years. In the book, Ruppert advocates the thesis that the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA were an aid used by the state in the service of this reorientation. The book is one of the top three selling nonfiction books on the subject in the United States.

On June 25, 2006, the editorial offices of From the Wilderness were broken into. The burglars did not steal anything, but instead took all seven computers into one room and systematically destroyed them with sledgehammers.

On September 29, 2008, Ruppert published an article that he was in personal danger ("I am in personal danger now") because he had broken the unspoken trade with the government to live in seclusion and not go public ("I have broken an unspoken deal with the government to remain retired and not speak out.")

On November 6th, 2009 the documentary Collapse by director Chris Smith came out in the USA, which documents Michael Ruppert and his worldview. The film was shown for the first time in Germany at the 60th Berlinale in February 2010.

Ruppert died of suicide in April 2014.

backgrounds

Ruppert was a former Narcotics Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department , which he had to leave in 1978 because of his views on the role of the CIA in the drug trade . In 1996 he confronted the then CIA director John Deutch at a public event with allegations that the CIA was involved in drug trafficking in major American cities (see description in the Dark Alliance article ). According to Ruppert's testimony, he later learned from insider circles in Washington that Deutch's unsuccessful reaction to this had cost him his appointment as US Secretary of Defense, which is already considered certain .

Publications

• Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. New Society Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0865715408

Web links

• From The Wilderness with a short biography of Michael C. Ruppert
• Transcript of Sue Supriano interviewing Michael C. Ruppert on Global Public Media, August 31, 2004
• “Eyewitness of the collapse” , interview with Alexander Jodl on video.de, February 15, 2011
• Michael C. Ruppert in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael C. Ruppert: FTW Offices burglarized ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: From the Wilderness. July 5, 2006.
2. ↑ Michael C. Ruppert: What Really Happened Today ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: From the Wilderness. September 29, 2008.
3. ↑ Collapse Movie (official website).
4. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: Single Focus: An Outsider With Doomsday Vision . In: The New York Times . November 5, 2009.
5. ↑ Berlin International Film Festival: Temporary Archive> Annual Archives> 2010> Program .
6. ↑ CollapseNet's Founder, Michael C. Ruppert, Has Committed Suicide ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Collapse Network , Apr. 15, 2014.