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Fraud godmen: Exploitation behind the veil of faith

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged fraud, God Men, gurus, India

The recent arrest of a self-styled godman from Maharashtra on charges of sexually exploiting multiple women once again exposes a deeply troubling reality: the growing menace of fraudulent spiritual leaders, strutting with impunity and bawdy bravado, and preying on faith,…[Continue Reading...]

Exploring Infowars’ Alex Jones’ conspiracies in ‘The Madness of Believing’

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Alex Jones, fake news, former employee, InfoWars

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Josh Owens, former employee of Alex Jones and author of, “The Madness of Believing” about how Jones was able to captivate his audience with misinformation. Watch video interview https://abcnews.com/video/132045036/[Continue Reading...]

‘It was nonsense and lies’: Ex-Infowars staffer exposes Alex Jones’s ‘fake news machine’ – including staged stunts, drunken antics, and office chaos – in explosive new tell-all

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Alex Jones, fake news, InfoWars, tell-all book

As MAGA media turns against Donald Trump, it was only a matter of time before the president denounced the nation's highest profile right-wing influencers as 'losers,' 'troublemakers' and 'nut jobs.' Name-calling aside, a new book sheds light on the real-life…[Continue Reading...]

Lena Dunham claims she was almost recruited to notorious Hollywood sex cult in new memoir

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Lena Dunham, NXIVM

Lena Dunham's new memoir, Famesick, debuted on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. The new tell-all book details her experience filming her hit 2012 HBO series Girls, navigating health battles, intimate details from her five-year relationship with Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff, and…[Continue Reading...]

Cult: Father testifies how TV sermon hooked him, death of six children to starvation

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal trial Kenya, cult leader, cults, Good News International Church, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

There was silence as a Mombasa court on Tuesday heard chilling accounts of how former followers of cult leader Paul Mackenzie were indoctrinated and the subsequent deaths of their loved ones. The Kwa Binzaro deaths took centre stage in proceedings…[Continue Reading...]

Franni Cash Survived a Religious Cult: She’s Turning It Into Her Most Powerful Song Yet

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult survivor, cults, Fanni Cash, personal story

Most artists write from what they know. Franni Cash writes from what she survived. In her own words: "My senior year of high school, my family and I walked out of the religious cult I'd grown up in after some…[Continue Reading...]

Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality push

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged authoritarian crackdown, cult leader, cults, Kim Jong Um, North Korea

North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), held in February 2026, sidelining the ideological legacies of his predecessors and generating widespread…[Continue Reading...]

Sentencing delayed for California cult leader who sexually assaulted his followers

Published April 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, criminal convictions, cult leader, cults, Kev Ntseeg Leej Niam Kee Tiam Vaj Lis Thum, Sansue Bee Vang, sexual abuse

OROVILLE, Calif. — A religious cult leader from Oroville was supposed to be sentenced in a Butte County courtroom on Tuesday, but the date was pushed. Sansue Bee Vang was found guilty in February by a jury of eight counts…[Continue Reading...]

Blurring the Lines — For Star Stone, whose new show about surviving a sex cult, Cl*t Cult

Published April 14, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, Nicole Daedone, OneTase, survivor story

And that led me to write again. I began a new one-person musical comedy show called Cl*t Cult, about surviving the sexual wellness cult OneTaste, which I just performed at the New York Fringe, earlier this month. I reclaimed the…[Continue Reading...]

4 Cults That Prophesied the End of the World

Published April 14, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, doomsday cults, failed predictions

“I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times, and began again in the morning,” the poet Nayyirah Waheed writes in her book Salt. It’s a powerful quote about how things that can seem…[Continue Reading...]