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{{Short description|American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist}}
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{{Infobox person
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| name = Webster Tarpley
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| image = File:Webster G. Tarpley 2005.jpg
| alt caption = Webster Tarpley Axis for Peace 2005-11-17
| caption = Tarpley at the 2005 Axis for Peace conference
| birth_name = Webster Griffin Tarpley
| birth_date = {{birth-date year and age|September 1946}}
| birth_place = [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts|Pittsfield]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.United States
| nationalitydeath_date = American
| occupation death_place = Author, activist, journalist
| party education = Tax Wall Street Party
| website alma_mater = http://tarpley.net{{plainlist|
* [[Princeton University]]
* [[University of Turin]]
* [[Catholic University of America]]
}}
| occupation =
'''Webster Griffin Tarpley''' (born September 1946) is an American author, political activist, and conspiracy theorist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoyle|first=Ben|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first-lady-can-sue-over-bloggers-escort-claims-xlpwfn9dv|title=First lady can sue over blogger’s escort claims|work=The Times|date=January 28, 2017|access-date=March 28, 2021|quote=[Tarpley is an] avid conspiracy theorist who writes for his own website}} {{subscription required}}</ref> A one-time follower of [[Lyndon LaRouche]],<ref name="WaPo19870118">{{cite news|last=Carlson|first=Peter|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1987/01/18/press-encounters-of-the-third-kind/6dffaea8-4cec-4eef-87a2-ac71fbcd443e/|title=Press Encounters of the Third Kind|work=The Washington Post|date=January 18, 1987|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref> Tarpley is known for his role in the [[9/11 truth movement]], believing 9/11 was a "false flag" operation.<ref name="Gdn20110912">{{cite news|last=Skelton|first=Charlie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/sep/12/9-11-symposium-charlie-skelton|title=How the world changed after 9/11|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=September 12, 2011|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Aaronovitch | first1=David | title=Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History|date=2011 | publisher=Random House | isbn=978-1-4464-2429-2 | page=12 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EflJpmpR-6kC&pg=PA12}}</ref> He is a founder of the Tax Wall Street Party.▼
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| party = [[U.S. Labor Party]]
| otherparty = [[National Caucus of Labor Committees]]
| movement = {{plainlist|
* [[LaRouche movement]] (until 1997)
* [[9/11 truth movement]]
}}
| spouse =
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| website = {{URL|http://tarpley.net/}}
}}
▲'''Webster Griffin Tarpley''' (born September 1946) is an American authorwriter, political activist, and conspiracy theorist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoyle|first=Ben| author-link=Ben Hoyle | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first-lady-can-sue-over-bloggers-escort-claims-xlpwfn9dv|title=First ladyLady can sue over blogger’sblogger's escort claims|work=[[The Times]]|date=January 28, 2017|access-date=March 28, 2021|quote=[Tarpley is an] avid conspiracy theorist who writes for his own website}} {{subscription required}}</ref> A one-time follower of [[Lyndon LaRouche]],<ref name="WaPo19870118">{{cite news|last=Carlson|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Carlson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1987/01/18/press-encounters-of-the-third-kind/6dffaea8-4cec-4eef-87a2-ac71fbcd443e/|title=Press Encounters of the Third Kind|worknewspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 18, 1987|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref> Tarpley is known for his role in the [[9/11 truth movement]], believing [[9/11]] was a "[[false flag"]] operation.<ref name="Gdn20110912">{{cite news|last=Skelton|first=Charlie|author-link=Charlie Skelton | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/sep/12/9-11-symposium-charlie-skelton|title=How the worldWorld changedChanged afterAfter 9/11|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=September 12, 2011|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Aaronovitch | first1=David | author-link=David Aaronovitch | title=Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History|date=2011 | publisher=[[Random House]] | isbn=978-1-4464-2429-2 | page=12 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EflJpmpR-6kC&pg=PA12}}</ref> He is a founder of the Tax Wall Street Party.
 
==Education==
Tarpley was born in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts|Pittsfield]], [[Massachusetts]], in 1946. After receiving a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in Languages from [[Princeton University]] in 1966, ''[[Latin honors|summa cum laude]]'' and [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]], he became a [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission|Fulbright]] Scholar at the [[University of Turin]], Italy. Later, he earned a [[Master of Arts]] in [[humanities]] from [[Skidmore College]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[Early modern period|early modern history]] from the [[Catholic University of America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tarpley.net/biography/ |title=tarpley.net |publisher=tarpley.net |date=July 10, 2012 |access-date=July 15, 2012}}</ref>
 
==Career==
In 1971, Tarpley was on the editorial board of ''The Campaigner'', a [[National Caucus of Labor Committees]]' journal, according to its masthead.<ref>{{cite[http://www.wlym.com/archive/campaigner/Campaigners1968-76/Cam710100v04n01/ArchiveImages/Cam710100v04n01p001.png news|title=Masthead|work=.] ''The Campaigner|publisher='', vol. 4, no. 1 (Winter 1971), [http://www.wlym.com/archive/campaigner/Campaigners1968-76/Cam710100v04n01/ArchiveImages/Cam710100v04n01p001.png p. 1.] [[National Caucus of Labor Committees]]|National date=WinterCaucus 1971|volume=4|number=1}}of Labor Committees (NCLC)]].</ref> In 1986, Tarpley attempted to run on [[Lyndon LaRouche]]'s [[U.S. Labor Party]] platform in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot in August that year because of a defect in his nominating petitions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/nyregion/another-assemblyman-ruled-off-primary-ballot.html|first=Jesus |last=Rangel |title=Another Assemblyman Ruled Off Primary Ballot |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 1986|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/116ffc2e15b0d85373d7cca6745a3c0f|title=LaRouche Candidates Barred from New York Democratic Primary|work=[[Associated Press]]|date=August 8, 1986|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
 
At one time, Tarpley was a contributing editor to the ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'' (EIR), a LaRouche movement publication. In a January 1987 press conference attended only by a reporter from ''[[The Washington Post]]'', he claimed the [[LaRouche criminal trials|LaRouche movement's credit card indictments]] were part of a plot against LaRouche who he described as "the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination" in the [[1988 United States presidential election|following year's election]]. Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], Tarpley claimed, had used a surreptitious message in a speech to demand the silencing of LaRouche because of supposed information in LaRouche's possession on Soviet involvement in the assassination of [[Olof Palme]], the former Swedish prime minister.<ref name="WaPo19870118" /> In 1992, Tarpley co-authored with [[Anton Chaitkin]] ''[[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]]: The Unauthorized Biography'', published by LaRouche's EIR magazine.
 
Since March 2006, Tarpley has hosted a weekly online talk show called ''World Crisis Radio'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/worldCrisisRadio/ |title=''World Crisis Radio on GCNLive'' |publisher=GcnliveGCNlive.com |access-date=July 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626023736/http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/worldCrisisRadio/ |archive-date=June 26, 2012 }}</ref> broadcast by GCNLive.com.
 
In addition to World Crisis Radio, Tarpley hosts the podcast, the AmericanSystem.tv. This subscription-based program airs Monday-Thursday at 9 p.m. EST. The podcast is co-hosted with Daniela Walls, the chairperson of the Tax Wall Street Party.<ref>http://americansystem.tv/</ref>
 
==Conspiracy theories==
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On November 21, 2011, while traveling to Syria, Tarpley told Syria's [[Addounia TV]] that the [[Syrian Civil War]] was a [[NATO]]–[[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ploy to destabilize Syria using mercenaries and death squads against the population and the Syrian government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tarpley.net/tarpley-on-syrian-addounia-tv/|title=Tarpley on Syrian Addounia TV|date=November 21, 2011|publisher=TARPLEY.net / [[Addounia TV]]|access-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
 
On April 2, 2012, [[C-SPAN]] aired ''9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops: An Evening of Debate'', in which Tarpley debated his critic [[Jonathan Kay]] on conspiracy theories, specifically the truth behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<ref name="C-SPAN">{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?305586-1/911-false-flags-black-ops-evening-debate-|title=9/11, False Flags, Black Ops Evening Debate _ Video|date=April 2, 2012|work=[[C-SPAN]]|access-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref> [[David Frum]], who served as moderator between the two men, described Tarpley's "presentation as involuted as it was long-winded." During the event, Tarpley said that the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] was [[Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory|also a government conspiracy]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Frum|first=David|author-link=David Frum|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/among-the-truthers-and-other-conspiracy-theoristsdavid-frum?ref=scroll|title=The Mad Mind: Among the Truthers (And Other Conspiracy Theorists)|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=April 3, 2012|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>
 
On June 7, 2012, interviewed for the [[NRK]] (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) regarding the [[2011 Norway attacks]], Tarpley said, "I believe that the evidence points to a private network, or even a NATO network, within the police that contributed the long time delay until they stormed the Island."<ref name="NRK">{{cite news|url=http://www.nrk.no/227/artikler/konspirasjonsflom-etter-22.-juli-1.8183914|title=Konspirasjonsflom etter 22. juli – 22. juli 2011 – Terroren som rammet Norge|date=June 6, 2012|publisher=[[NRK]]|language=No|access-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
 
Tarpley toldhas [[Press TV]] on June 18, 2013 that revelations about the [[National Security Agency]] by their former computer system administratorsaid [[Edward Snowden]] outlining global and domestic spying by US intelligence agencies might be seen as a "CIA [[limited hangout]] operation," that is, to publicize minor public manipulation operations to conceal greater covert misdeeds such as promoting war in the Middle East. He claimed such "gullibility" operations could be traced from [[Daniel Ellsberg]] to [[Julian Assange]]'s [[WikiLeaks]], with a legacy in perfidious politics and governance since the 17th century.<ref name="PressTV">{{cite news|url=http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/18/309609/how-to-identify-cia-limited-hangout-op/ |title=How to identify CIA limited hangout op? |last=Tarpley |first=Webster G. |date=June 18, 2013 |agency=[[Press TV]] |access-date=September 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903095035/http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/18/309609/how-to-identify-cia-limited-hangout-op/ |archive-date=September 3, 2014 }}</ref> He has said Snowden is probably a triple agent ultimately being an agent for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] with the aim of weakening President [[Barack Obama]] and pushing him into intervening in Syria.<ref>{{cite news|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|url=https://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/here_come_the_edward_snowden_truthers/|title=Here come the Edward Snowden truthers|work=Salon|date=June 19, 2013|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>
 
On January 21, 2015, Tarpley was interviewed by Guns and Butter's Bonnie Faulkner about "geopolitical terrorism and the destabilization of governments and how others like Russia and Belarus are responding".<ref>[https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/1600-gunsbutter317-20150119-from-audioport The World Rebels Against Wall Street Rule], soundcloud.com. Retrieved on 16 December 2018.</ref><ref>[http://gunsandbutter.org/ten-topicsten-shows.htm Ten Topics/Ten Shows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216032031/http://gunsandbutter.org/ten-topicsten-shows.htm |date=December 16, 2018}}, gunsandbutter.org. Retrieved on 16 December 2018.</ref>
 
Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace, of [[9/11 Truth movement#Scholars for 9/11 Truth|Scholars for 9/11 Truth]] and of a research ''Netzwerk'' of German 9/11 authors founded in September 2006. Tarpley has expoundedalso given lectures what he terms the "Versailles Thesisthesis", layingwhich claims that the blame[[Government forof the greatUnited warsKingdom|British ofgovernment]] theattempted 20thto centurycreate ona intriguesnew by"[[New BritainWorld toOrder retain(conspiracy hertheory)|world dominanceorder]]" at the [[Treaty of Versailles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/versaill.htm |title=The Versailles Thesis – Roots of WWI |publisher=Members.tripod.com |access-date=July 15, 2012}}</ref>
 
==Criticism==
Critics of Tarpley have said that he still sells copies of the book on the Bush family he co-authored while working for [[Lyndon LaRouche]]. The book was criticized by David Neiwert, who wrote:
<blockquote>Like most Larouche texts, the Bush "biography" is a mélange of fact and distortion, written in a highly suppositional style that makes numerous leaps of logic and asserts connections where there is no real evidence to support it, at other times omitting exculpatory or contrary information that reveals a more complete picture. Sifting through it requires a great deal of work, but there are nuggets of fact woven into their text that are substantiated and which deserve proper consideration.<ref>David Neiwert, [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/09/bush-nazis-and-america_07.html] "Bush, the Nazis and America," Orcinus, Sunday, September 07, 2003</ref></blockquote>
 
==Melania Trump libel suit==
In February 2017, he agreed to settle a libel suit brought by U.S. First Lady [[Melania Trump]] for publishing a "false and defamatory" report In August 2016 alleging that the First Lady had been a "high-end escort" prior to meeting President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite webnews |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/melania-trump-libel-suit-blogger-234263 |title=Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's 'escort' claims |newspaper=Politico |publisher=politico.com |access-date=January 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/07/blogger-forced-to-pay-substantial-sum-to-melania-trump-in-defamation-lawsuit.html|publisher=Fox News|title=Blogger forced to pay 'substantial sum' to Melania Trump in defamation lawsuit|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=February 7, 2017}}</ref> Terms of the settlement included providing a public apology in writing and paying a "substantial sum".<ref>{{cite news|last=Morse|first=Dan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/melania-trump-reaches-settlement-in-libel-lawsuit-against-maryland-blogger/2017/02/07/3b8ecd86-ed3e-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html |title=Melania Trump reaches settlement in libel lawsuit against Maryland blogger |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>
 
==Selected publications==
==Bibliography==
'''Articles'''
*[https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415_006-palmerstons_london_during_the_18.pdf ”Palmerston’s"Palmerston's London During the 1850s: A Tour of the Human, Multicultural Zoo”]Zoo."] ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'', Volvol. 21, Nono. 16, April(Apr. 15, 1994). [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415.php Full issue available.].
 
 
'''Books'''
*''Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro?'' ([''Who Killed Aldo Moro?)''] Study commissioned by the Italian Parliamentary [[Giuseppe Zamberletti]] (DC) and published in Rome, 1978. It sheds light on the affiliation between the [[Red Brigades]] and the [[Neo-fascism|neofascist]] [[Propaganda Due|P2 lodge]] and the role of the Italian intelligence services in the [[Operation Gladio]]/Anglo-American secret services.
*[https://archive.org/download/GeorgeBush--TheUnauthorizedBiographyWebsterG.TarpleyAntonChaitkin/George%20Bush%E2%80%94The%20Unauthorized%20Biography%2C%20Webster%20G.%20Tarpley%20%26%20Anton%20Chaitkin.pdf ''George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'']. Co-authored, with [[Anton Chaitkin]]). (1992.); Reprinted (2004). {{ISBN|0-930852-92-30930852923}}.
*[http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/ ''Against Oligarchy: Essays and Speeches, 1970-1996'']. (1996).
*[[iarchive:survivingcatacly0000tarp|''Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History'']] (1999); updated edition, (2009,). 1-61577-600{{ISBN|1615776001|978-10930852955}}.
*[https[iarchive://archive.org/details/911syntheticterr00tarp_0/ |''9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA – Myth of the 21st Century'']]. Foreword by [[Thierry Meyssan]], (2005). {{ISBN|0-930852-31-10930852311}}; 5th ed.: (Nov. 2011). {{ISBN|1615771115}}.
**Version françaiseFrançaise: ''La Terreur Fabriquée, Made in USA : 11 Septembre, le mythe du XXIe siècle'' (Sep. September 2006). {{ISBN|2-9525571-4-42952557144}}.▼
**Fifth edition, November 2011. {{ISBN|1-61577-111-5}}
**Italiano: ''La Fabbrica del Terrore'' (Sep. 2007). {{ISBN|978-8887307566}}.
▲**Version française: ''La Terreur Fabriquée, Made in USA : 11 Septembre, le mythe du XXIe siècle''. September 2006. {{ISBN|2-9525571-4-4}}
**In ItalianoEspañol: ''La11-S, FabbricaEl delFalso TerroreTerrorismo'' (Jan. September 20072008). {{ISBN|978-88-87307-56-60930852982}}.
*[https://archive.org/download/WebsterGriffinTarpleyObama.ThePostmodernCoup2008/Webster%20Griffin%20Tarpley%20-%20Obama.%20The%20Postmodern%20Coup%20-%202008.pdf ''Obama & The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate''] (Apr. April 2008). {{ISBN|0-930852-88-50930852885}}.▼
**En Español: ''11-S, El Falso Terrorismo''. January 2008. {{ISBN|0-930852-98-2}}.
**German: ''Barack Obama: Wie ein US-Präsident gemacht wird'' (Aug. 2008). {{ISBN|978-3938516744}}.
▲*[https://archive.org/download/WebsterGriffinTarpleyObama.ThePostmodernCoup2008/Webster%20Griffin%20Tarpley%20-%20Obama.%20The%20Postmodern%20Coup%20-%202008.pdf ''Obama & The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate'']. April 2008. {{ISBN|0-930852-88-5}}
**German EditionJapanese: ''Barack Obama: Wie ein US-Präsident gemachtDangerous wirdGeometry'' (AugustNov. 2008). {{ISBN|978-3-938516-74-44880862398}}.
**Japanese Edition[[iarchive: barackhobamauna00tarp|''Barack H. Obama: DangerousThe Unauthorized GeometryBiography'']] (NovemberAug. 2008). {{ISBN|4-88086-239-80930852818}}.
**Japanese edition: March(Mar. 2009).▼
*[https://archive.org/details/barackhobamauna00tarp ''Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography'']. August 2008. {{ISBN|0-930852-81-8}}
*''Just Too Weird: Bishop Romney and the Mormon Takeover of America: Polygamy, Theocracy, and Subversion'' (Oct. October 2012). {{ISBN|1-61577-724-51615777245}}. 278 pages.▼
▲**Japanese edition: March 2009.
▲*''Just Too Weird: Bishop Romney and the Mormon Takeover of America: Polygamy, Theocracy, and Subversion''. October 2012. {{ISBN|1-61577-724-5}}. 278 pages.
 
==References==
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