Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky.

Lightbulb Conspiracy, The Collectivist Conspiracy. Two favorites hope you can use.

Best one I've seen is Evidence of Revision (6 parts i think)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666048701355447870

Top Documentary has a decent conspiracy section once you separate the wheat from the chaff.

The National Security Archives is a good place for primary source declassified/FOIA documents.

And I would add the entire Evidence of Revision series, of course.

One thing we haven't talked a lot about here is the secret sanctioning of illegal drug trafficking by western governments through covert operations and organized crime and how it has become integral part of economies. The complete lack of awareness by the general public is really rather disturbing.

This has been going on since the times of the British fighting the Opium Wars for David Sassoon. Historical evidence indicates that the Vietnam War was a continuation of the two Opium Wars of the Nineteenth Century in which the Western powers forced China to import opium. Right after Vietnam the CIA expanded its operations into Central and South America and began its cocaine smuggling leading to the Iran Contra (Israel) Affair and the crack epidemic.

As people became aware of the highly addictive nature of drugs like opium, heroin and cocaine it became unacceptable for public relations reasons to overtly support. Western governments started using covert operations managed by its secret agencies to maintain this highly profitable enterprise.

Good subject! And while we're at it we should also nail down as many proven conspiracies as possible and pin down the characters involved. Oh man this is quickly turning into what I've always wanted to do. We can nail all of this down here. I'm sure there is enough collective knowledge here to fill a library. If we all put our heads together we can make a FAQ page that will be hard to walk away from unconvinced.

Look was has been happening in Mexico in the last few years. So much drug violence and death just across the border of the USA. Then there is the whole "Fast and Furious" gun operation.

http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/mexico-drug-war-essay/?hpt=hp_c1

But yet the US government is more concerned about what is happening in Syria.

Even people like Catherine Austin Fitts have made the connection about the government sanctioned illegal drug economy in the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90zvtIEaU_Q

Related.

Thanks! I updated the FAQ a bit. I added your post with a few additions from others. What do you think? It's coming along I think.

It's definitely progress.

Is it good? I need your input, I don't want to feel like I am taking this over. I'm just pretty excited to be able to do these things. It helped me pass the time at work today.

I haven't looked at what it's like to maintain the FAQ. As long as it will allow us to turn some of those topics into hyperlinks later, it's on the right track. Is it just pure HTML? (i.e., can we make tables of links and such?)

it has it's own format. it took me about 20 minutes to learn. i'm sure we can embed links. here is the guide: http://code.reddit.com/wiki/WikiFormatting

Quick look... yeah. it's good. Continue on this path for a while. See how things go.

www.thoughtmaybe.com is a great documentary website too but my computer becomes a full retard when I go there.

Don't clutter the sub with links and a bullshit FAQ.

We aren't going to cause a lot of clutter. Have you checked the FAQ? I understand your criticisms and we are going to work together as a community to make it better here. The mods decided that it wouldn't be fair of us to start enforcing user bans without clearly posted rules for the sub. We needed to do a lot of clean up and a lot of spam bots got banned. I set up the FAQ to explain the rules in detail so that I could satisfy the other mods that our rules are clearly posted and so that we can set up a links section. I promise that we will make all of this as unobtrusive as possible. I'm sorry you don't like the links in the sidebar idea, but several people have been asking for this. I'm not a huge fan of the idea myself, but I want to make everyone here happy so I will do it. We could just make it all into a wiki style page and just make one link in the sidebar.

Don't worry, we will make this work.

We could just make it all into a wiki style page and just make one link in the sidebar.

This is my goal.

Why are you trying to make it a "community"?

It already is a community. Judging from your responses I don't think you like me much...

Just please do not add a sidebar on the left. It didn't work out so well last time. These links will be confined to the space below the 'related subreddits' right?

It is my hope that, apart from the related subreddits, there will be only one or two other links on the sidebar. E.g., (read the mouseover spoiler text)...

Related/Popular Websites

Related/Popular Topics

Ideallly, only reddit-community links (the subreddits) would get direct sidebar status, and anything "offsite" would be linked from a different page (e.g, wiki or self-post) which we would then link to. That way, we aren't promoting anything other than reddit and information on our sidebar.

(EDIT: If the two categories above start becoming unmanagable and need to be broken down into smaller groups [see my 'related' comment in this thread], then each of those groups might get a link on the sidebar, but nothing that directly promotes "non-reddit" things should be put directly on our sidebar - there should be a multi-click process for leaving the site via our sidebar)

Word. Sounds good.

Any change of starting a diigo or delicious group?

Everything on this page is very related to the "open conspiracy".

When you get to adding links for ancient civilizations (and, possibly, some of the general "concealment of information/knowledge" sections), please include this video. It's one of the best I've seen about the Pyramids.

Is it good? I need your input, I don't want to feel like I am taking this over. I'm just pretty excited to be able to do these things. It helped me pass the time at work today.

We could just make it all into a wiki style page and just make one link in the sidebar.

This is my goal.

Why are you trying to make it a "community"?