Putin’s Minions in Alternative Media & Politics

The Kremlin has thoroughly infiltrated and subverted what’s known as the “alternative” media and political circles in the West. Russia’s strategy has been to dog whistle to disparate political factions in order to have maximum influence among political currents in the West, both left, centrist and right. Putin’s propaganda czar Vladislav Surkov is the mastermind behind the Kremlin’s chaos strategy in this regard, throwing money at anyone – communists, leftists, nationalists, religious Christians, Muslims, etc. – who will parrot Kremlin talking points and support Putin.

Here are some of the elements that Russia is currently controlling:

The “anti-imperialist” left: These are people who I would categorize as Chomskyite leftists whose main agenda is to oppose American and Western “imperialism” and foreign policy. They cross-pollinate with the generic “anti-war”/”pro-peace” crowd. They portend to be anti-interventionist and anti-war, but that’s a farce. They’re only against Western-led wars and interventions because they’re anti-Western, and, ultimately, anti-white who push the discourse of post-colonialism and white guilt. These hypocrites fully support wars and interventions when regimes of the global east or south wage them, particularly Russia and China. Their agenda is to dismantle NATO and the American empire in order to erect an anti-white BRICS coalition empire, led by Russia and China, to dominate the globe and “punish” the West. This category includes double-speaking liars like George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, Abby Martin, Max Blumenthal, Patrick Henningsen, Eric Draitser, Michel Chossudovsky, James Corbett, William Blum, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges and virtually anyone who writes for Counter-Punch and Global Research. Unsurprisingly, all of these dubious characters are fixtures on Russia’s English-language television stations pumping out their anti-Western vitriol. Some even have or have had their own shows on the RT/Sputnik network. Martin has had a show on both RT and the Venezuelan (Marxist) channel Telesur. Galloway currently has a show on Sputnik and previously on Iran’s Press TV.

Pro-Assad Groupies: This faction grew out of the Syrian civil war. It largely consists of opportunistic, attention-seeking Western women, as well as Syrian women living in the West, looking to make names for themselves by pimping pro-Assad talking points. Since Russia intervened to save the Assad regime from destruction, these groupies have come out swinging for Putin and Russia generally, siding with the Kremlin in the dispute with Ukraine. They’re also generally part of the “anti-imperialist” leftist club, ragging on about how the West is evil and how anything non-Western is benevolent and good, especially non-white socialist dictators with the exception of Putin. These frauds include Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, Mimi al-Laham (Syrian Girl), Carla Ortiz, and numerous other narcissistic females. Also Tim Anderson, a radical Marxist professor from Australia who was previously linked to a terrorist incident there, is chief among these Assad pushers, most likely in an effort to get laid with these ex-pat Syrian women running rampant in Australia.

American Libertarians: The American libertarian movement has been built up by the Kremlin because they favour total isolationism and call for a drastic reduction in US military spending. Russia Today is a major platform for US-based libertarians, and the majority of them parrot Kremlin talking points so closely that it would be a miracle if they weren’t being paid by Russia to do so. In their blind hatred of America and dislike of its foreign policy, these libertarians have jumped on the Putin cult bandwagon, pimping him as a “counter-force” against something they hate, even though the hypocrites are abandoning all of their libertarian principles to do so. The American government is far more libertarian on issues like free speech and gun rights than the totalitarian regime of Putin which jails hundreds of people a year for expressing opinions the Kremlin doesn’t like. Journalists are routinely assassinated in Russia. Some of these libertarians have cozied up to the Kremlin for opportunistic reasons so they could get more publicity selling themselves and their brand on RT. Some of these charlatans include Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, Justin Raimondo, Scott Horton, Ryan Dawson and Adam Kokesh. In fact, Ron Paul’s underlings have direct links to pro-Kremlin NGOs based in Europe. An investigation titled “Ron Paul’s Institute for Putin’s Priorities” goes into the links.

Disgruntled Ex-US Government Employees: This group is made up of former US government employees who became disgruntled with their former employers for various reasons. This includes Sibel Edmonds (FBI), Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan administration), Philip Giraldi (CIA), Michael Scheuer (CIA), and many others. Roberts is probably the most rabid and delusional Putin worshipper of the lot, but they all generally push the anti-US, anti-NATO line which serves the Kremlin, and never investigate Kremlin corruption, imperialism or false flags.

Shia & other opportunistic Muslims: This group consists largely of Shia Muslims who have taken up an alliance with Russia to counter their Sunni rivals in the Middle East. Shia and Sunni Muslims don’t really get along, so the opportunistic Shias have aligned themselves with Russia and China in order to gain more power and influence across the Middle East, which is mostly Sunni. Iran, Hezbollah and Assad all belong to the Shia sect of Islam. Don’t let these Shias fool you into thinking they’re the “good” Muslims as opposed to the “bad” Sunnis. Nor are they particularly principled either. During the Iraq war, many Shias backed the US invasion to topple the Sunni Saddam Hussein who kept Iraqi Shias marginalized. Iran directly aided the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in order to topple the rival Sunni fundamentalist regime of the Taliban. These Shias are more than willing to work with the “great Satan” when it suits their interests. But now their interests align more with Russia, so that’s who they’re shilling for. Among the North American “truth movement” are Shia shills like Jonathan Azaziah, Mark Glenn, Sarah Abdullah, Khanverse, Kevin Barrett and other oddballs who tout Putin and Russia as saviours of their beloved Shia regimes in the Middle East. Barrett isn’t a Shia but he has ingratiated himself with the Iranian regime and its media branch Press TV, so he serves their interests. These hacks feign an anti-war stance until their Russian and Iranian paymasters enter the fray.

The “Kremlin-First” Alt-Right: Numerous prominent pundits on the alt-right have pushed a strong pro-Russia, pro-Putin line, usually relying on false and exaggerated claims of Putin’s conservatism to justify their support. The strongest Putin advocate in the alt-right is Richard Spencer who has direct personal connections to Russia and the cult of Russian-Eurasianist ideologue Alexander Dugin. Spencer’s wife, Nina Kouprianova, is Russian. She operates as a Putin bot on Twitter, has translated the works of Dugin into English and has appeared on RT television to regurgitate Kremlin spin about NATO and Ukraine. It seems that everyone Spencer has surrounded himself with tow this pro-Putin cult line, especially Mike Enoch, who marches in lock-step with Spencer in denouncing Trump whenever Trump does something contrary to Putin’s interests. Spencer doesn’t seem to get along with other alt-right pundits who don’t follow his Russian script, such as Greg Johnson. Another big Putin pusher in the alt-right is David Duke, who has his own strong links to Russia, having lived there for years. He always brags of having sold his book Jewish Supremacism in the lobby of the Russian parliament. Duke is also a major Assad groupie, as is Spencer, having been hosted in Syria in 2005 where he gave a speech. This is largely a result of the Russian loyalty, since Assad is Putin’s puppet. Elsewhere Duke has been pictured with Dugin. Matt Heimbach, the disgraced former head of the Traditionalist Workers Party, is the clearest Duginist in the alt-right, having been mentored by Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, a Russophilic “orthodox medievalist” academic who has spent his career promoting Russia as the saviour of the white race and Christianity. Dugin actually spoke at Heimbach’s opening party conference, and the party’s aesthetics largely mirror the symbols of Dugin’s Eurasianist movement. Alongside Heimbach in leading the Putin cucking in the alt-right is Andrew Anglin, the oddball editor of the Daily Stormer who fled the United States and is now most likely living in Russia. From the beginning, Anglin has advanced the Putin cult, using all the standard overused talking points. An investigation into Anglin noted the likelihood he was being sponsored by Russia to agitate during the 2016 US election:

Anglin hadn’t been to the polls in years, but he wasn’t going to miss a chance to vote for Trump. His absentee ballot arrived in Ohio from Krasnodar, a city in southwest Russia near the Black Sea, according to Franklin County records. That the Russian government wouldn’t know about an American inside its borders publishing a major neo-Nazi website seems improbable. Anglin worshipped Putin, and seemed like exactly the type of online agitator Russia might use to sow chaos during the U.S. election. In March, Auernheimer told Daily Stormer commenters that he was setting up the site’s forum on “a much beefier server in the Russian Federation.” Anglin would later swear on his site—“under penalty of perjury”—that he’d never taken money or direction from the Russian government.

Most alt-righters who only listen to Spencer, Anglin and Duke end up also parroting the narratives of the Putin cult because they don’t know any better. Other alt-right sources who spread Putin worship are Red Ice TV and Arktos Media. Red Ice’s second-in-command is Lana Lokteff, who has Russian roots, and thus a strong ethnic bias for Russia and Putin. Arktos has routinely promoted and printed books by Dugin.

Truthers, American “Patriots” and Alt-Lighters: Chief among the Putin shills in this category is Alex Jones, a loudmouth charlatan who takes up any position if it will earn him more viewers and money. Around 2012 Jones started pushing a pro-Putin conspiratard line, that Putin was opposing the globalists and is our saviour from the New World Order, reversing himself from years earlier when he called Putin a terrorist “demon” and “creature of the IMF.” Jones has openly embraced Alexander Dugin, and the two have cross-interviewed each other.  For years Jones has received favourable interviews on RT. This highly-embellished and kooky discourse that Putin is an anti-globalist hero has filtered down to the broader “truther” community who eat it up like chocolate cake. This community is extremely gullible. With their chronic disbelief in any mainstream news source, these fools believe any shoddy fake news website that runs under the alternative label. Others in this category include Mike Cernovich, Paul Joseph Watson and Jay Dyer. Dyer is the most clear Duginist of the lot, pushing asinine conspiracy theories depicting every terror attack and shooting in the West as a staged hoax with crisis actors, as per his KGB demoralization agenda to convince Westerners their societies are irredeemably corrupt and that their salvation lies in Russia and Putin.

Eastern Orthodox Christians: Some eastern orthodox Christians have adopted the Putin cult simply because they identify more with the Eastern variants and institutions of Christianity than Western ones. Also, conservative Christians in general were wooed by Putin’s law against “gay propaganda” to minors. These eastern orthodox Christians are akin to Muslims and Muslim converts who support various foreign Muslim governments or groups above their own countries of residence, or Western Jews who put Israel first. These Christians harbour a religious allegiance to Russia, and by extension its government, because it’s seen as the hub of the Orthodox faith. A prominent example of this is Brother Nathael Kapner, the anti-Judaic former Jew who has spread delirious pro-Putin propaganda for years. Kapner even claimed an association with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which, like the parent church, is probably a front for the KGB. Jay Dyer is also one of these orthodox converts who carries a religious motive behind his obscene cucking for Russia and anti-Western antipathy.

Some Zionist Jews: Some rabid Zionists favour a closer alliance with Putin and Russia because Russia doesn’t care about human rights and won’t bother Israel as much about settlement building and war crimes committed in Gaza. Various articles in mainstream publications have been written outlining the common interests between Israel and Russia, and how the US is not a reliable ally for Israel any longer. A Zionist, Josh Cohen, opined in Reuters that “With the emergence of Putin, though, Israel found the closest thing to a friend it’s ever had in Moscow,” outlining Russian-Israeli common interests as such:

Israel and Russia share a common fear of terrorism, and in 2014 Putin was one of the few world leaders to support Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas, saying “I support Israel’s battle that is intended to keep its citizens protected.” In 2005, Putin became the first Russian president to ever visit Israel, visiting the Western Wall – Judaism’s holiest site – as well as Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, where Putin observed a moment of silence. The Russian president even reportedly purchased an apartment in Tel Aviv for his then-84-year-old Jewish German teacher. Putin returned to Israel in 2012 as the guest of honor at a state dinner and to inaugurate a monument to the Red Army soldiers who defeated Hitler in World War Two.

Another op-ed in The Week argued why “Russia should take over Israel’s defences from America,” with reasoning similar to that of Cohen. Putin’s close links with Chabad Lubavitch and crackdown on anti-Jewish speech and Holocaust revisionism within Russia also has some Jews swooning.

All of these compromised activists fall in line with the stated Duginist agenda to infiltrate and subvert anti-establishment political currents in the West, drawing them into Putin’s orbit of useful idiots. In his “Principles & Strategy for the Coming War,” Dugin openly writes of the need for Russia, as part of its multi-pronged war effort against Europe and America, to recruit a Putinist/Eurasianist fifth-column inside the West so that when the “great war” begins, Russia can activate its sleeper cell networks as internal saboteurs. Dugin wrote,

Therefore, the first task to gain victory would be real fully-fledged company to create the entirely negative, monstrous, satanic image of the United States and the West in general. Therefore, the West is a place where the devil resides. It is the center of the global capitalist tentacles. It is the matrix of ​​rotting cultural perversion and a vice grip of falsehood and cynicism, violence and hypocrisy.

Ask yourself, is this not exactly what the majority of these alt-pundits promote, both left and right, that the West is satanic and evil and that in order to redeem ourselves our civilization must first die and then be reborn (under Russian control/direction)? With the above list of Kremlinist operators in the alt-media and politics, we can observe clearly that the Dugin agenda is alive and well amongst these “dissidents.” Dugin and his Kremlin backers have largely succeeded in coopting virtually all alternative media and politics in the West, save for a few principled holdouts who caught on to the charade and oppose it.