Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.)
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A tip of the hat to Jane White, who spotted this disturbing photo at the Facebook page for Clear Ghana, which describes itself as a “group of Scientologists working…to bring this technology to as many people of Africa as possible.”
That apparently includes presenting the standard Sea Org contract to a couple of youngsters who […]
Scientology is a very small, if wealthy, organization of probably no more than about 40,000 people around the world. But one of the reasons it garners so much attention, particularly online, is the way it repeatedly has taken on the Internet as one of its chief foes.
In the 1990s, Scientology tried to keep its secret […]
Simi Valley sent us a remarkable e-mail a couple of weeks ago. She wanted us to know that she’s no longer an “independent Scientologist” — she’s out all the way.
“It was a year ago that Debbie Cook sent out her e-mail and I finally woke up. But now a year later I’ve really woken up […]
…this is how you send a message to Dear Leader out in front of the Scientology building in Los Angeles.
Comedy writer Seth Madej snapped this photo on Monday afternoon and posted it to his Twitter feed with this […]
On January 7, BBC reporter John Sweeney’s book about Scientology, The Church of Fear, hits bookstores, and he thought of a great way to promote it.
About a month ago, he flew to the US and joined former church member and Blown for Good author Marc Headley for a trip to the Trementina vault in New […]
With our year in review finally over, we’re left with one last Sunday in 2012, and what would a Sunday be without Funnies?
Our tipsters have been terrific this year, and we’re still getting great stuff from them every day. So let’s send 2012 out in style by looking at the latest fundraising mailers that Scientology […]
Tiziano Lugli does his best Tom Cruise
And so we come to the end of this lengthy year in review, which no doubt has already gone on far too long for some readers.
If we’ve been longwinded, our excuse is that 2012 has been such an exceptional year for Scientology, and there were so many […]
Oh Belgium, how we love you
UPDATE: See more analysis from journalist Jonny Jacobsen after the jump. The latest: Jonny’s thoughts on the Belgian investigating magistrate, Michel Claise.
We sure picked a great day to go for a long hike.
Turns out, minutes after we left for our day-long stroll, we received an e-mail from […]
We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.
We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…
As the fall began, we were enjoying all the speculation by reviewers about the Scientology […]
Patrick Desmond
By now you’ve probably seen our update on today’s year-in-review piece, or perhaps you’ve heard the news another way: Atlanta’s local media is reporting that state regulators are beginning a process to revoke the license of Scientology’s drug rehab program there, the Narconon Georgia facility which is at the center of a […]
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