[2] From 1999 until 2006, Ruppert edited and published From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and the nature of the 9/11 conspiracy.

[1] Ruppert was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse,[3] which is based on his book A Presidential Energy Policy[4] and received The New York Times "critics pick".

[1] In 2014, Vice featured Ruppert in a 6-part series titled Apocalypse, Man;[5] and a tribute album, Beyond the Rubicon was released by the band New White Trash,[6] of which he had been a member.

[1] He said that his mother, Madelyn, was a cryptanalyst at the National Security Agency, working in a unit that cracked Soviet codes in order to track their nuclear physicists.

[8] The family moved fourteen times, living in seven different states, eventually settling in Los Angeles where Ruppert attended Venice High School, graduating in 1969.

[1] On November 15, 1996, then Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch visited Los Angeles' Locke High School for a town hall meeting.

At the meeting, Ruppert publicly confronted Deutch, saying that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer he had seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing.

Crossing The Rubicon suggests that Vice President Dick Cheney, the US government, and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of and colluded with the perpetrators of 9/11.

In mid-2006, claiming government harassment, and fearing for his life, Ruppert left the United States with Raul Santiago for Venezuela, vowing not to return.

Ruppert denied that he had sexually harassed her,[15] and said that "the case was based on a deliberate attempt to discredit his work, a movie coming out about his views and his former newsletter, From The Wilderness.

[18] Ruppert and his theories on peak oil were the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse,[3] which was based on his book A Presidential Energy Policy[4] and received The New York Times "critics pick".

In 2011 he announced on his Lifeboat Hour radio show that he was relocating to Sonoma County, California, because he thought that it would be a safer location in the event of societal collapse.

After leaving CollapseNet, Ruppert moved to Crestone, Colorado, and pursued Native American and indigenous teachings (adopting the name "Tracker of Truth") and started putting more time into music, recording with the band New White Trash, described as a "downtempo acoustic rock outfit".

[6] Numerous documentary films have featured Ruppert, including The End of Suburbia (2004),[25] Liberty Bound (2004),[26] American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007),[27] The 911 Report You Never Saw - The Great Conspiracy (2008),[28] Collapse (2009),[29][full citation needed] Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011),[30] and Apocalypse, Man (2014).

[39] The New York Times, in its review of Collapse, wrote "the majority of his premises are verifiable, any weakness in his argument lies in inferences so terrifying that reasonable listeners may find themselves taking his advice" and that in it, Ruppert "emerges finally as an authentic human being, sympathetic even when the film that embraces him is not.