I like a good conspiracy or conspiracy theory as much as the next person. After all, I am an Army veteran, and when I was in the Persian Gulf, all of us soldiers would kick around conspiracy theories, from the gas-inducing bromide pills the Army gave us over there to the desert exercises we took [...]

Hamid Gul, 74, retired chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate and now a prominent pro-Taliban media commentator, at his office in Rawalpindi. http://www.topix.com/hobbies/conspiracy-theory/2011/05/pakistans-spymaster-hamid-gul-angel-of-jihad-or-windbag-provocateur?fromrss=1

A decade after Nepals crown prince stunned the world by gunning down nine family members, mystery still surrounds the massacre that plunged the monarchy into a crisis from which it never recovered. http://www.topix.com/hobbies/conspiracy-theory/2011/05/royal-massacre-still-a-mystery-10-years-on?fromrss=1

Listener-supported lefty radio station WBAI-FM is now aligning itself with conspiracy theorists. http://www.topix.com/hobbies/conspiracy-theory/2011/05/editorial-air-pollution?fromrss=1

To its eternal shame, the Republican party has taken climate change denial out of the crank fringe and made it mainstream John Boehner, speaker of the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, has declared the settled scientific consensus that manmade climate change is happening ‘comical’. The United States is experiencing a golden era of conspiracy … http://www.topix.com/hobbies/conspiracy-theory/2011/05/climate-trutherism-the-conspiracy-theory-thats-no-joke-sahil-kapur?fromrss=1