Michael Collins Piper (born Michael Bernard Piper; July 16, 1960 – May 2015) was an American political writer, conspiracy theorist and talk radio host.
Piper was a regular contributor to both The Spotlight and its successor, the American Free Press, newspapers backed by Willis Carto and noted for their antisemitic and White separatist/White nationalist themes.
Piper's books and articles have also been featured by a wide-ranging and eclectic variety of websites, including PressTV, Vanguard News Network and the website of David Duke.Piper was described on his website as a political "progressive in the La Follette-Wheeler tradition."He wrote books such as The High Priests of War, in which he criticized the neoconservatives in the Bush administration, and Final Judgment, where he claimed that Israel's Mossad was responsible for the assassination of U.S.
President John F.
Kennedy.
He had been criticized by many organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Middle East Media Research Institute, which have described Piper as a promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories and a Holocaust denier.