Thread by @RealZeist

I decided to do a little digging into the sponsors for an upcoming astroturfed "anti-war" (viz. pro-Russia) protest (Rage Against the War Machine).

Here are these organizations and front groups listed, as well as their principals.

The protest demands are typical Kremlin fare.

The speakers include many of the usual crowd, including convicted child predator Scott Ritter, who's become a very active cheerleader for Putin's war against Ukraine.

Then there's also Jackson Hinkle of MAGA Communism fame. Here he is explaining this new political syncretism to Jimmy Dore (another slated speaker).

Another listed speaker: Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute (RPI), who before joining RPI was reportedly working for "the now-defunct British Helsinki Human Rights Group, a pro-Kremlin NGO that defended dictators against human rights abuse charges".

freebeacon.com/politics/the-r…

McAdams's prior work at a dictator-defending, pro-Kremlin NGO is consistent with his denial of Russian war crimes in Bucha.

As for the sponsoring groups listed, the Libertarian Party is one main sponsor, and 3 other sponsors are affiliated with the Libertarian Party.

There's also the People's Party, a.k.a. Movement for a People's Party, listed as a main sponsor (I'd never heard of it either).

The Movement for a People's Party is headed by Nick Brana, a former Bernie Bro, who is unabashedly pro-Putin on his Twitter feed.

Apparently Nick Brana is facing accusations of sexual misconduct from a former party member.

And sadly, there is still another person I have yet to mention affiliated with this protest for which there are credible allegations of sexual misconduct.

eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/it-did-scare…

Moving on, there's another sponsor called the Center for Political Innovation (CPI), a Marxist-Leninist group founded and led by Caleb Maupin.

Caleb Maupin's CPI was responsible for this commie cringefest in Chicago last summer.

Caleb Maupin is also a big fan of Aleksandr Dugin of Russian Nazbol Party fame. They've even met!

Caleb Maupin is the other character for which there are sexual misconduct allegations from former members of his groups.

archive.ph/ZpB3h

Moving on, the American Student Union (ASU) is another listed sponsor. The name is a homage to an old Soviet front group but it seems as if there's no operational continuity between the two.

ASU's earliest tweets say that it is one and the same as "SYNA". CPI is also mentioned.

SYNA (Students and Youth for a New America) is another Caleb Maupin project, founded in 2016.

Ergo, Caleb Maupin's menagerie of front groups appears to comprise SYNA, ASU, and CPI, despite the fact that ASU and CPI are actually listed as separate sponsors for the protest.

What really caught my eye was the "Reccomended news and views" section of Caleb Maupin's ASU website.

It's a who's who of Kremlin and Soviet Bloc propaganda outlets, some official state news agencies, and some alt media.

@propornot will have a field day with this.

Maupin's reading list includes Matt Taibbi, who "once worked for a former KGB general" in Russia. Presumably Taibbi is referring to his stint at the eXile in Moscow with Mark Ames, which they wrote a book about. Btw, I'm told the book details sexual misconduct by Taibbi and Ames.

Two other sites on Maupin's reading list deserve mention: Black Hammer and The Burning Spear (a publication of the African People's Socialist Party).

Both organizations were busted by @FBI last summer for operating as fronts for the KGB, handled by Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov.

To close the chapter on Caleb Maupin and his front organizations, here's him praising Lenin on Russia Today.

There's one other sponsor for the Rage Against the War Machine protest which is quite interesting: Action 4 Assange (A4A).

A4A claims to be "decentralized" but appears to be largely under the direction of Andrew Zigmund Smith.

Would you believe that Andrew Zigmund Smith even appeared on @TuckerCarlson on 9 Apr 2021 to talk about his group Action 4 Assange?

Interestingly, the footage that rolled during @TuckerCarlson's interview with Zigmund Smith included a photo of a demonstration promoting the Seth Rich disinfo campaign which was amplified by Assange (meant to bury the fact that foreign actors hacked the DNC and Podesta emails).

This @TuckerCarlson interview in which the Seth Rich disinfo was slyly promoted (9 April 2021) came well after @FoxNews had already paid a seven-figure settlement to Seth Rich's family for their prior amplification of this disinformation.

yahoo.com/video/fox-paid…

The Action 4 Assange Youtube channel contains clips from a pro-Assange demonstration they held on 8 Oct 2022.

In an ironic twist, both the aforementioned convicted child predator Scott Ritter and self-styled trafficking survivor advocate Eliza Bleu shared speaking slots.