Our Media and The Death of Truth

Imagine siting in court watching a deep fake video of you committing a horrible crime? 

Our news sources are no longer broken. They are rotting from the inside out. What was once the noble fourth estate has become a soulless propaganda machine, weaponized against the very people it was meant to inform.

Both the political Left and Right journalism sites have turned into informational danger zones.  He who saturates the world with the most lies wins. 

We now know, thanks to the Doge investigation, that the Biden administration funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of leftist legacy media outlets. That money bought their obedience. It bought silence. It bought the calculated suppression of facts and the wholesale fabrication of lies, designed to shape public opinion like a cudgel to the skull. These so-called journalists didn’t just fail us. They sold us out.

Then came the “fact-checkers,” self-anointed digital inquisitors posing as neutral arbiters of truth. In reality, they are ideological enforcers, stamping out dissent under the guise of correction. Tragically, millions of gullible citizens, ignorant or willfully blind, lapped it all up. They weren’t checking facts. They were burning books in real time.

Worse still, we are now haunted by synthetic shadows. Deepfakes, so eerily convincing they defy belief, are flooding the net, manipulating the faces and voices of our leaders, enemies, and allies. Some are meant to stir chaos. Others to cover crimes. And the public, unable to tell what’s real and what’s engineered, is left in a state of paralyzing uncertainty.

Even the legacy media, once at least marginally trustworthy, has fallen. They no longer report. They perform. The entire Internet has metastasized into a theater of lies, omissions, and staged distractions. While there are still brave voices practicing real journalism, their reach is being throttled, censored, or buried under AI-generated sludge.

Yes, AI is now creating content so realistic, so seamless, it’s becoming nearly impossible to distinguish it from real human journalism. And if you think things can’t get more surreal, brace yourself. We are on the edge of holographic deception. Politicians and celebrities are beginning to appear in crowds, shake hands, and give speeches without even being there.

It’s a matter of time before, if it is not happened already when deep faked videos show up as “reliable” evidence inside our courtrooms!  

Reality is slipping. The floor is buckling beneath us.

The only hope left is to question absolutely everything. Everything you read, everything you see on TV, every video, every photo, every soundbite. The war for truth is already raging. If you are not actively skeptical, you are already a casualty.

THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK: AMERICA’S TIME BOMB IN PRINT.

Somewhere in the rubble of American rebellion and counterculture, a book was born. The Anarchist Cookbook was a how-to manual so dangerous and so incendiary that even its author later tried to disown it. I once had a copy of this notorious title. I didn’t buy it. I took it. I stole it, really, from the headquarters of a violent Chicago street gang during an off-the-books sweep. I had no legal right to seize it, but in my judgment as a former cop, taking that book was a minor crime to prevent a greater evil. It vanished over the decades, but recently, I ordered a new one from Amazon. Not because I needed it, but because we need to talk about it.

A Weapon Disguised as a Book

The Anarchist Cookbook was first published in 1971. Its author, William Powell, was just 19 years old. He was a disillusioned teenager angry at the Vietnam War and the machinery of American power. He dove into military manuals and chemistry texts, boiling down complex formulas into step-by-step guides for creating mayhem.

This was not satire or abstract political theory. It was practical instruction on how to kill, sabotage, maim, and terrorize. Inside were recipes for homemade explosives like TNT and nitroglycerin, alongside diagrams for booby traps, Molotov cocktails, and methods of guerrilla warfare. It gave instructions for making LSD and meth. It was, by all accounts, a blueprint for domestic terror.

Protected Speech or Unpunished Threat

The U.S. Constitution protects speech. We hold the First Amendment as sacred, even when it defends the indefensible. The FBI reviewed The Anarchist Cookbook soon after its release and determined it was protected under the First Amendment. No law was broken by publishing it, selling it, or owning it. Yet the agency quietly watched. It surveilled the book’s readers. It made note when copies turned up in violent crime scenes. But it did not, and perhaps could not, stop the book’s circulation.

Deadlier Than Guns

Let’s be honest. A book like this is more dangerous than any AR-15. Guns are regulated, tracked, and require ammunition. But this is knowledge. It is portable, duplicable, and potentially explosive. The people reading it are not just thinking about violence. They are planning it.

Today, terrorists do not even need books. The internet is a 24-hour terror tutorial. But The Anarchist Cookbook remains iconic. It is an artifact of rage, alienation, and rebellion. Authorities may monitor its circulation, but most often they find it after the bomb has gone off, after the bullets have flown, and after the bodies lie cold. It is a ghost at the crime scene. Silent. Damning.

The Trail of Blood

The cookbook’s fingerprints are all over American tragedies.

1. Columbine, 1999
   Eric Harris used its recipes when constructing deadly pipe bombs.
2. Oklahoma City, 1995
   Timothy McVeigh did not cite the book directly, but his tactics mirrored its teachings.
3. Planned Parenthood, 2015
   Robert Dear had the book among his possessions when he opened fire.
4. Austin Bombings, 2018
   Mark Conditt, the serial bomber, left behind materials consistent with its pages.
5. Various school shootings and domestic attacks
   Numerous shooters and lone-wolf terrorists have either owned or downloaded the book, sometimes leaving it behind as part of their digital trail.

The Man Who Tried to Undo His Past

William Powell spent the rest of his life trying to put the genie back in the bottle. He became an educator, working with special-needs children, and publicly begged for the book to be taken out of circulation. But he had sold the rights. The publishers, first Loompanics Unlimited and later Paladin Press, refused. The book remained in print for more than 40 years. It was pirated online, downloaded in secret, and distributed worldwide.

He died full of regret.

Two Million and Counting

It is estimated that over two million copies of The Anarchist Cookbook have been sold. That number does not include the countless PDFs shared online or translated versions passed through foreign radical groups. The book has been banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. But in the United States, you can still buy it legally. No questions asked.

That does not mean no one is watching. Law enforcement tracks who orders it, who downloads it, and what else they are doing. When a pipe bomb shows up at a school or bags of fertilizer are found in an apartment complex, this book becomes a key piece of the puzzle.

A Nation on Edge

In a country already boiling over with division and extremism, this book is lighter fluid. It does not teach people why to kill. It teaches them how. That is what makes it so dangerous. It is not ideology. It is a toolkit. The user brings the hate.

Yes, we have a First Amendment. But we also have a duty to pay attention. If you see large quantities of fertilizer where it does not belong, if someone is hoarding blasting caps or fuel, speak up. Report it. Save lives.

The Anarchist Cookbook is more than a book. It is a warning. And it is still whispering instructions to people who want to watch the world burn.