In this bonus episode, COMMONS producer Noor Azrieh sits down with Peter Smith to discuss his reporting on right-wing conspiracy groups like Qanon and Romana Didulo.

Is it even possible to “brainwash” anyone?

Richard Marsh was born into the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. He got out of the group he calls a cult and has made it his mission to expose the Brethren for their alleged abuses.  Now he’s on the run from Brethren members who’ve been searching for him for years. The man hired to hunt Marsh down? David Wallace.

But at what point does it go from being harmless entertainment and turn into something more sinister?

MLMs have become such a ubiquitous part of North American life that their tenets are rarely ever questioned.

Nearly 1.4 million Canadians and almost 50 million Americans are involved in multi-level marketing.

The media have portrayed the Raelians as not just a cult, but a strange phantasmagoria of extraterrestrials, orgies and clones. But its followers insist it is the only true path forward for humanity.

The Cult Wars have been raging for decades.

Is it even possible to “brainwash” anyone?

He’s often called the Devil of De Courcy Island for good reason.