Thread by @areidross

The story here is similar to the mass rally in Germany that happened the other day. It's something like a constant mobilization of the same (transnational) crowd doing the same thing, wash, rinse, repeat. 🧵/1

https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1627342488460488704

The other day, the WashPo published a story about a similar rally in Munich: "demonstrations draw a radicalized fringe, with the antiwar protests taken up by many of the same organizers as anti-lockdown demonstrations during the pandemic" /2

washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/…

You'll note that the WashPo makes reference to fascists and other far-right groups engaging in these demonstrations along with members of the far left. I should note, some groups broke off in the end to fight one another afterwords. This is the pro-Kremlin lobby. /3

This article has good analysis of the types participating in the ludicrous "anti-war"/pro-genocide spectacle: "just one more logical step for a set of 'Left' grifters attempting to establish themselves among the far-Right" /4 itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazis-clai…

IGD notes that the same leadership (Dore, Blumenthal, et al.) appeared at rallies organized by far-right orgs and leaders associated with the anti-vaxx movement. You can also track the Alt Right associations to the "Hands off Syria" events in 2018. /5

pulsemedia.org/2018/04/29/you…

The continuing confab between white nationalists and tankies isn't a fluke based on temporary alignments; it's clearly a feature of their strategy to unite fringes based on a shared opposition to liberalism and an interest in an extended synthesis. /6

The Mises Caucus is, after all, not an inconvenient showup here but an organizer. These are Alt Right adjacent, hard-right libertarians whose board includes ppl like League of the South cofounder Tom Woods. /7

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022…

You might think to yourself, but what about Scott Horton and AntiWar dot com! They seem like a leftist group. Well, here's a few of Tom Woods's many appearances there, along with his large donation to them, and his tribute to their founder... /8

So as we peruse some of the other hosts, we find big time LaRouchites. Yep, the extremist conspiracy theory cult with a history of delving into wild theories of mind control and violence against leftists. The main character here is a speaker today. /9

newrepublic.com/article/170290…

And here she is apparently on a pair of panels (this year and last) for the LaRouchite Schiller Institute with Nick Brana, the National Chairman of the People's Party that's co-organizing today's event. But another sponsor is there too: Kirk Meighoo of bad podcasts. /10

How bad, you ask? He's particularly interested, it seems, in collaborating with Dugin's international network of syncretic political Traditionalism largely founded upon the fascist tenets of "National Bolshevism." /11

I already mentioned Gerald Celente, who's another speaker today... turns out he was a guest on a Rense episode with David Duke, and that's not all... more recently, he was on the pillow guy's show and Infowars. seems like a real gem. /12

https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1625563547588771841?s=20

Alright, you get the idea... I'll leave it there for now, because I'd rather be doing something else rn. Regarding Dore's flirtations with far-right libertarians, you have only to look to his Boogaloo tryst. /13

thedailybeast.com/these-dirtbag-…

Mentioned in the above are the ConvoCouch folks who wanted to see an alliance btw Proud Boys and antifa. They went on a paid junket as "election observers" for a sham election—a typical practice by Russia, etc., to cultivate ops. They're speaking too. /14

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Who else we got? Ron Paul? I guess he's not going to be a great left-wing representative. Do we really have to go there? Alright, I'm through most of these, so might as well get through the rest. /15

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We have other LaRouchies like Garland Nixon. I found the "weaponization of rage" interesting given the context. LaRouche famously advocated theories that the English monarchy was responsible for international drug trafficking and antisemitic Rothschild conspiracy theories. /16

Who else we got? Dan McKnight? So here he is just a few months ago stumping on Veteran's Today, an explicitly antisemitic site that upholds the legacy of notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel and maintain pretty notorious connections to Iran. /17 haaretz.com/world-news/201…

So we've got Iran, Nicaragua, and of course there's a propagandist working for Sputnik News in the mix of speakers, along with Ron Paul acolyte Daniel McAdams, no foreigner to the Russian propaganda circuit, as discussed here.

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boundary2.org/2019/11/alexan…

This is a really impressive lineup of real rock stars who I'm sure feel strongly about the issues and have no commitments that might compromise their ethics. That said, they're also prone to RW coalitions and positions, in general. /19

https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1355180048265990151

And then there's Cynthia McKinney, who participated in the recent antisemitic "the Noticing" hashtag, and produced an image of the World Trade Center towers with the phrase "Zionists did it." Surely there would be better anti-war voices? /20

ajc.org/news/twitters-…

Oh that's right, this seems to be actually a pro-war rally filled with speakers who support Russia's invasion. This is a great thread with fine examples. /21

https://twitter.com/GrandTurion/status/1618197904682004480?s=20

Almost forgot (let's not forget!) to round this out again by talking about Syria and the Kusenich/Tulsi thing. A good note to end this eternal return. Back then, everyone thought Tusli was left wing. At least now, people don't make that mistake. /22

theatlantic.com/news/archive/2…

Alright, I'm done. I wanted to do a threat, bc in part I felt I owe it to you all after so many years of these types of threads. But honestly, I'm old now, and there's a new generation of antifascists you should be paying more attention to. ♥️ /Ends

PS: I should note here that the German scene is not of course dominated by pro-Russia voices. There have been many mass rallies in support of Ukraine, and so there are lots of reasons to be hopeful.

https://twitter.com/Makeiev/status/1627389192488554496?s=20