Michael Ruppert
| Michael Craig Ruppert | |
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| Born |
February 3, 1951 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | April 13, 2014 (aged 63) Calistoga, California |
| Education | B.A., UCLA, 1973 |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist Publisher Talk show host |
| Known for | Whistleblower and author of Crossing The Rubicon |
Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American investigative journalist, best known as the editor of the newsletter From the Wilderness (1999-2006) and author of the 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.
After graduating with honours in Political Science from UCLA in 1973, Ruppert became a narcotics detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. While serving with the LAPD, he became involved with a woman, Nordica Theodora D’Orsay, through whom Ruppert became aware of the relationship between organised crime and official government agencies, particularly with respect to narcotics and arms trafficking. Ruppert's attempts to alert the LAPD to these realities resulted in his being 'forced out' of the department in 1978, even though he had achieved the highest ratings in his professional conduct as an LAPD officer.
His career prematurely terminated, Ruppert drifted from job to job until, in 1996, he read with great interest Gary Webb's series of articles, in the San Jose Mercury News, regarding CIA involvement in the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s. Feeling both inspired and vindicated by Webb's work, Ruppert founded a newsletter and website titled From the Wilderness, which covered a range of topics, including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and the nature of the 9/11 conspiracy. It attracted 22,000 subscribers.
Ruppert was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse, which was based on his book A Presidential Energy Policy and received The New York Times' "critics pick". He served as president of Collapse Network, Inc. from early 2010 until he resigned in May 2012. He also hosted The Lifeboat Hour on Progressive Radio Network until his death in 2014.
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