Mathias Bröckers is a book author and journalist who writes for the taz and Telepolis, among others. He belongs to the founding generation of the taz and worked as an author for Die Zeit and numerous radio stations. His works Die Wiederentdeckung der Nutzpflanze Hanf (1993) and Verschwörungen, Verschwörungstheorien und die Geheimnisse des 11. 9. (2002) and Wir sind die Guten - Ansichten eines Putinverstehers (2014) became international bestsellers. Most recently he published JFK - Staatsstreich in Amerika (2017) and Newton's Ghost and Goethe's Polaroid (2019). He lives in Berlin and blogs on broeckers.com.