The official story is usually wrong. So are most of the people who say so.
For years, Steven Hager has been digging through the places where history, intelligence work and the occult meet, and publishing what he found on his blog, The Tin Whistle. Everything You Know Is Twisted collects 109 of those dispatches into one volume. It is a guided tour of the hidden hand behind the headlines, and a warning about the rabbit holes built to keep you from finding it.
Hager asks the questions polite historians avoid. Who really founded the Illuminati, and why did it come back? How did Albert Pike win the peace after Lincoln won the war? Why did so many famous writers moonlight as spies? Was the Weather Underground what it seemed? Why did Oswald leave a trail of breadcrumbs, and who were the three tramps? What happened to Frank Olson, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana? And why have cannabis and sacred mushrooms been scrubbed from the history of magic and religion?
The book is organized in seven parts:
• Secret Societies: Lodges, Orders and the Hidden Hand
• Spooks: Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors
• JFK and the Kennedys: Patsies, Doubles and Rabbit Holes
• Murder, Madness and Cover-Ups: Crimes the Official Story Can't Explain
• Magic, Religion and the Occult: Bell, Book and Candle
• Cannabis and the Psychedelic Revolution: The Sacrament They Tried to Erase
• The Tin Foil Hat Patrol: Inside the Disinfo Matrix
Hager is just as hard on the conspiracy industry as he is on the establishment. In the final part, he names the fake whistleblowers, disinformation artists and professional rabbit-hole diggers who, in his view, exist to discredit real research. It's a field guide for anyone who wants to know which "truthers" to trust.
Written with a reporter's nose and a satirist's bite, the book is fully annotated, with chapter notes linking to primary documents, congressional reports and court records. It also includes a selection of reader comments from the original blog posts, a bibliography and a name index. Whether you're a skeptic, a seeker or a veteran of the rabbit hole, this book will change how you read the news.
