Trump, the alt-right and the Kremlin: White supremacists Russia links are no secret

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http://www.salon.com/2017/08/17/trump-the-alt-right-and-the-kremlin-white-supremacists-russia-links-are-no-secret/

Heather Digby Parton at Salon

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But whether the president knows it or not, even the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally has deep connections to the global white nationalist movement, and the epicenter of that movement is in Moscow under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. Take, for instance, Matthew Heimbach, who was crowned by Think Progress as the “most important white supremacist of 2016? and was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville event. Heimbach is the man who was arrested at a Trump campaign rally for pushing and screaming at a protester, and who later claimed in court that he believed Trump had “deputized” the crowd to defend him against the protesters.

Heimbach says, “Putin is the leader, really, of the anti-globalist forces around the world” and calls “Russia our most powerful ally” — and by “our,” he means the forces of white nationalism. The Southern Poverty Law Center dubbed him “The Little Führer.” Heimbach is also a member of the World National Conservative Movement, a product of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM):

The manifesto of the movement claims that the world is governed by the ideology of “liberalism, multiculturalism and tolerance.” This, in the view of the activists, results in “the erosion of nations, massive migration from countries with foreign civilizational bases, falling away from religion, replacement of spirituality by materialism, impoverishment of cultures, destruction of the family and healthy moral values” through “abortion, propaganda of debauchery and acceptance of sexual perversions”. Furthermore, the manifesto refers to the “super-national institutions” such as the EU and NATO, and argues that these forces represent “the global cabal” which, in the Russian cultural discourse, is essentially a euphemistic reference to the global Jewish conspiracy. The WNCM aims to counter liberalism and globalisation by staging a “conservative revolution” and bringing far right parties to power in Western societies.

That sounds strangely familiar doesn’t it?



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[Bladewire]

1. Putin funds the KKK to divide America

I post on another board and Russian trolls, posing as Americans, are posting racist KKK posters to divide Americans there.

Putin's RT news networks has had endless white nationalist, etc. on their program.

[applegrove]

2. Yeah the Russians were all over the Discussionist during the elections.

You'd alert on them and the alt right would vote no to taking down their posts. They loved it.

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[yuiyoshida]

5. K&R tweeted

n/t

[Ilsa]

6. I've been saying on Twitter that Putin is

Thrilled with all that's been going on.

I wonder how long it will take for the rest of the US to catch on and accept that Putin is not our friend, does not care about American values?

[Dale Neiburg]

7. "The leader of anti-globalist forces around the world"

Why does that remind me of G.K. Chesterton's fictional President of the Central Anarchist Council of Europe?

[dalton99a]

8. Nazi rallies and websites are not financed by garage sales and bake sales

It's Putin and his bitcoins