Category File
Geopolitics
3 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Trilateral CommissionA private body founded in 1973 to bring together senior figures from North America, Europe and Japan, and treated in conspiracy literature since the late 1970s as the committee that actually runs Western policy. The overlap it is accused of is real and was never hidden — a founding member became president in 1977 and filled his administration from the membership — and so is the document most often quoted against it, a 1975 report to the Commission arguing that American governance suffered from "an excess of democracy". What has never been produced is a mechanism: the Commission publishes its members, its reports and its accounts, and nothing in them instructs anyone to do anything.
- Stolen Uranium: The Apollo, Pennsylvania NUMEC AffairIn November 1965 an Atomic Energy Commission audit found 178 kilograms of highly enriched uranium unaccounted for at the NUMEC plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania — 93.8 kg of it with no identifiable loss mechanism, the largest such loss at any American commercial site. A senior Mossad officer visited the plant in 1968 under a false description, and in 1976 the CIA told regulators it believed the material had reached Israel. Nobody was ever charged, and the Army Corps of Engineers is still digging contaminated soil out of the site at a cost near $400 million.
- The Tsunami Weapon (2004)A disaster-conspiracy theory claiming that the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004 was not solely the result of a massive undersea earthquake, but was triggered, intensified, or deliberately caused by an underwater nuclear test or other exotic weapons activity by the United States, India, or another state. The theory grew from the sheer scale of the catastrophe, the existence of past “tsunami bomb” research, and widespread mistrust of military geophysics.
- The Iron Curtain as Physical WallThis theory claimed that before the Berlin Wall became a concrete and barbed-wire reality, there already existed a literal hidden barrier between East and West—a “magnetic wall,” electromagnetic field, or invisible anti-personnel zone that made crossing impossible or dangerous. The phrase grew out of a literal reading of the “Iron Curtain” metaphor and fed on early Cold War fears about radio jamming, radar, invisible energy, and sealed borders. The exact “magnetic wall” variant is sparsely documented under that precise phrase, but it fits a broader rumor culture that turned political and technical barriers into imagined unseen physical mechanisms.
- The Project for the New American Century (PNAC)A post-9/11 theory claiming that the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century had already outlined the strategic shape of a more aggressive U.S. military century and that its language about a “catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor” reflected not only strategic wishfulness but foreknowledge, intent, or readiness to exploit a major attack in order to justify wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- The Teapot Dome Oil Prince PlotThe Teapot Dome Oil Prince Plot was the theory that the famous corruption scandal surrounding the secret leasing of federal naval oil reserves in the Harding administration was only the visible surface of a much larger hidden agenda. In this expanded interpretation, the bribery scandal around Albert B. Fall and oil magnates such as Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair functioned as a deliberate distraction from a deeper geopolitical scheme—most dramatically, a plan to reverse the 1867 Alaska Purchase and transfer Alaska back into Russian hands through a concealed resource bargain. The historical Teapot Dome scandal involved secret leases, bribery, and Senate investigation, but the Alaska sale-back layer belonged to the rumor tradition that attached itself to the scandal’s exceptional corruption and secrecy.