The Charleston Church Shooting, the WACL & Operation Gladio

[American Dream]

A History of Violence

SHANE BURLEY



Behind every lone wolf there’s a wolf pack. James Alex Fields is a murderer. They are all murderers.


A fringe member of an already fringe white-nationalist movement commits an act of seemingly random mass violence, which, because it is non-programmatic and not a part of a larger movement project, is disowned by the white nationalist movement and described as completely out of character for their community. The problem is that no matter what their leadership says, no matter what their organizing priorities actually are, it is the most reliable form of action that the white nationalist movement produces.

There exists a reliable pattern inside of American white nationalism. Rising to visibility through hot-button issues, fascists will see a moment of skyrocketing influence and use it to latch onto a slightly more moderate right-wing movement so as to gain influence and recruit. During the Civil Rights Movement, explicit racialists and the Ku Klux Klan used the pro-segregationist movement and the White Citizens Councils to gain respectability with Jim Crow Southerners and to expand the “Overton Window” with regards to race. In the 1980s, it was paleoconservatism, a more “Old Right” version of Republicanism that rejected the internationalist and neoliberal Neoconservatism, that gave the extreme right access to the conservative base, particularly through figures like Pat Buchanan. More recently, it has been the internet-celebrity cadre of Civic Nationalists, often referred to as the Alt Light, consisting of people like Jack Posobiec, Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, and Lauren Southern. Open fascism is generally seen as contemptible by most of the public when presented on its own. With a friendlier partner, however, fascists can slowly normalize their politics and grow their ranks.

Inevitably, the moderates reject the radicals, and the fascists lose their access to the mainstream. This process leads the movement to collapse much of its public-facing infrastructure, devolving into desperation as infighting reconfigures the once hopeful core. It is then that individuals, usually isolated both in their personal life and from positions of leadership and respect in the white nationalist movement, decide to take desperate action. The rhetoric of white dispossession is so extreme that recruits are driven to an evangelical frenzy, and when the movement loses its political viability there are few places for these ideologues to put their burning rage. When electoralism, mass movements, and above-ground action fails, there is always a gun. This is the time for monsters.

THEY WANT A LONE GUNMAN

While this model of fringe-actor violence is implicit to the white nationalist movement, it has also been explicitly advocated by parts of the movement. Coming off of a series of attempts to create a counter-state insurgency both in the Klan and paramilitary-styled white power groups, self-styled guerilla race-soldier Louis Beam penned a famous essay called “Leaderless Resistance” arguing that white racialists should take autonomous action against targets rather than join stable organizations easily infiltrated by federal agents. White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger wrote “Laws of the Lone Wolf” arguing that racist soldiers can take to the streets, seeking out targets for direct action, focusing on a strategy of violent consciousness raising rather than coordinated movement building. And their ideas worked as “seemingly random” attacks ensued, from skinheads on street corners to shootings at Sikh Temples and Jewish community centers. Metzger himself was taken down after White Aryan Resistance, through both literature and organizational encouragement, led members of the Portland-based neo-Nazi gang Eastside White Pride to brutally murder an Ethiopian student with a baseball bat. None of these crimes were part of an official strategy outlined in the documents of a chartered organization, because they didn’t need to be. The white nationalist movement was more powerful, meaning more violent, when it was diffuse.

White nationalist organizations prepare people, sometimes members and sometimes their periphery, for violence, but will never take responsibility for it. By creating a narrative of persecution and survival, by depicting insurrection as the only viable option, and by nursing impulsive brutality, they intentionally foster an internal fire, the only logical consequence of which is violence. This is, in part, because of the unwillingness of their leadership to reckon with the actual consequences of their work. When Richard Spencer talks about “peaceful ethnic cleansing” and then stands in utter shock that his words inspire counter-demonstrations, that his neighbors in Virginia or Montana want him out, he refuses to see what is plain for the rest of us. This is also a result of their tribalism and ideology. They simply don’t understand how their ideas lead to violence since they are simply so rational, their community so logical.



THOMAS METZGER, FOUNDER OF WHITE ARYAN RESISTANCE AND FORMER GRAND WIZARD OF THE KU KLUX KLAN.

Read more: https://communemag.com/a-history-of-violence/

[Sounder]

sounder wrote...

I agree with a fair portion of the article that AD posted about the alt-right being a cult. But that cuts both ways, that is, anytime people share and live under the impulse of an absolute imperative, they belong to a cult. No Borders is an absolute imperative for one class of cultists and it logically follows that members can be induced to create mayhem and suffering in the noble cause of destroying nation states.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-l ... 2bf9e54559

I established a terror movement in Australia, and I quit

SHAYNE Hunter established the far-left and violent Antifa movement in Australia. After four years the Brisbane man quit. Here’s why.
Shayne Hunter, as told to Corrine Barraclough
news.com.auOctober 25, 20176:55am

ANTIFA is a growing extreme group who believe violence is legitimate.

I got radicalised in Sydney. I was originally concerned about Western intervention in Syria. Radical left wing people dominated rallies and I started to associate with them more. My so-called ‘normal’ friends drifted away.

We would hang out at an anarchist library in Sydney. Here a bunch of people on the dole gather enough money to rent out the space and run a bookshop. It’s like extremist networking.

I came to believe that war was a symptom of bigger systems at play in society and they were the real enemy, like white supremacy and patriarchy. Antifa believe these systems need to be smashed through a process of ‘de-platforming’ to save the world. People who don’t necessarily agree on everything are united to attack their common enemy — anyone in the right wing of politics.

This micro-society became my life for four years.

They believe historically their roots were fighting Nazi oppression. They run a website which is updated every couple of weeks with a hit list of right wing names. They believe if these people are allowed to speak, society will suffer. So, they must be pushed back.

There is no mission statement, rather, it’s a dangerous rhetoric. There are a lot of very damaged people who are drawn to it.

Lots of activists came from Sydney University. They invited me along to some of their lectures. When I was organising the ‘Reclaim Australia’ rally and pushing Antifa into Brisbane, we delegated roles out across the gathering. Someone would print pamphlets that got our propaganda out there. Someone else would look after social media and online, we all gathered people to come.
Shayne showing off some of the Antifa propaganda the group uses to recruit members.

Shayne showing off some of the Antifa propaganda the group uses to recruit members.Source:Supplied
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I read that Antifa in the US is training people to shoot and punch. It’s the same here. Antifa in Sydney are doing martial arts to, as they would put it, ‘fight the Nazis’. It’s a paramilitary mindset.

It’s more dangerous than ISIS.

I was ideologically possessed for four years. I would speak louder on public transport so people could hear me speak, hoping they would hear my message.

The radical left of Antifa presents itself as being about compassion and empathy; it’s a Trojan horse. All conversations are about entitlement and rights, not responsibility. When these people talk about freedom, they really mean freedom from responsibility.

Often the people who are drawn to this cult don’t have a strong identity outside it. I’m not a psychologist but, like ISIS, it gives people a sense of belonging to something and having purpose.

A ‘social justice warrior’ cringe video appeared on my social media feed. I didn’t watch it at first. A couple of weeks later it popped up again so I pressed play. It was like seeing the entire cult through an outside lens. It woke me up. I realised that everything I had started to believe was wrong.

You don’t know humiliation until you’ve left a cult; I wasted four years of my life.

I cut ties over time. I’m still in contact with some ex-cult members but I don’t see anyone who’s still active.

In my 20-something generation, social media plays the role of a 24/7 preacher — like a pocket preacher. Each day you’re being validated by the echo chamber on your phone.

Antifa would say there is nothing good about Australian society. Their minds project that belief, and everything is filtered through this ideology.

Without doubt it’s a huge and growing threat to Australian society. It’s a miserable mindset. When I got out of it and stopped feeling oppressed, I finally felt like I could take control of my life. That’s what I intend to do now.”

You may choose to never question your precious self-identity, yet surely others will.

[American Dream]

I think the "No Borders Cult" is more mythic than you might realize. I know a number of refugees and migrants (some recently arrived/some not), as well as shakers and movers in the immigrant rights community. I also know plenty of democratic socialists, anarchists, and what not. Never, ever do I hear talk of "No Borders" in any of these circles, even though polemicists at places like CrimethInc. do write criticisms of border regimes.

[Jerky]

Anti-Antifa blather? At Rig-Int, a self-described "anti-Fa" (short for fascist) message board?

Heaven forfend!

What next? Shrieking jeremiads accusing members of being "virtue signaling" NPC/SJW "cucks"? More links to Jordan Peterson's timeless "wisdom"? More obsessive over-coverage about how Evergreen State College letting its students get away with being jerks to a professor was nothing less than the first blast of the Heavenly Horns announcing the End of Days?

There are already a million and one places online for "that kind" of post and people on the Internet. If you'd like a list, Sounder, I would gladly supply one for you. I'd say it's well worth being careful we don't allow Rigorous Intuition become another such board.

Jerky

[DrEvil]

sounder wrote...

...snip...

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-l ... 2bf9e54559

I established a terror movement in Australia, and I quit

SHAYNE Hunter established the far-left and violent Antifa movement in Australia. After four years the Brisbane man quit. Here’s why.
Shayne Hunter, as told to Corrine Barraclough
news.com.auOctober 25, 20176:55am

ANTIFA is a growing extreme group who believe violence is legitimate.

I got radicalised in Sydney. I was originally concerned about Western intervention in Syria. Radical left wing people dominated rallies and I started to associate with them more. My so-called ‘normal’ friends drifted away.

We would hang out at an anarchist library in Sydney. Here a bunch of people on the dole gather enough money to rent out the space and run a bookshop. It’s like extremist networking.

I came to believe that war was a symptom of bigger systems at play in society and they were the real enemy, like white supremacy and patriarchy. Antifa believe these systems need to be smashed through a process of ‘de-platforming’ to save the world. People who don’t necessarily agree on everything are united to attack their common enemy — anyone in the right wing of politics.

This micro-society became my life for four years.

They believe historically their roots were fighting Nazi oppression. They run a website which is updated every couple of weeks with a hit list of right wing names. They believe if these people are allowed to speak, society will suffer. So, they must be pushed back.

There is no mission statement, rather, it’s a dangerous rhetoric. There are a lot of very damaged people who are drawn to it.

Lots of activists came from Sydney University. They invited me along to some of their lectures. When I was organising the ‘Reclaim Australia’ rally and pushing Antifa into Brisbane, we delegated roles out across the gathering. Someone would print pamphlets that got our propaganda out there. Someone else would look after social media and online, we all gathered people to come.
Shayne showing off some of the Antifa propaganda the group uses to recruit members.

Shayne showing off some of the Antifa propaganda the group uses to recruit members.Source:Supplied
Ads by Kiosked

I read that Antifa in the US is training people to shoot and punch. It’s the same here. Antifa in Sydney are doing martial arts to, as they would put it, ‘fight the Nazis’. It’s a paramilitary mindset.

It’s more dangerous than ISIS.

I was ideologically possessed for four years. I would speak louder on public transport so people could hear me speak, hoping they would hear my message.

The radical left of Antifa presents itself as being about compassion and empathy; it’s a Trojan horse. All conversations are about entitlement and rights, not responsibility. When these people talk about freedom, they really mean freedom from responsibility.

Often the people who are drawn to this cult don’t have a strong identity outside it. I’m not a psychologist but, like ISIS, it gives people a sense of belonging to something and having purpose.

A ‘social justice warrior’ cringe video appeared on my social media feed. I didn’t watch it at first. A couple of weeks later it popped up again so I pressed play. It was like seeing the entire cult through an outside lens. It woke me up. I realised that everything I had started to believe was wrong.

You don’t know humiliation until you’ve left a cult; I wasted four years of my life.

I cut ties over time. I’m still in contact with some ex-cult members but I don’t see anyone who’s still active.

In my 20-something generation, social media plays the role of a 24/7 preacher — like a pocket preacher. Each day you’re being validated by the echo chamber on your phone.

Antifa would say there is nothing good about Australian society. Their minds project that belief, and everything is filtered through this ideology.

Without doubt it’s a huge and growing threat to Australian society. It’s a miserable mindset. When I got out of it and stopped feeling oppressed, I finally felt like I could take control of my life. That’s what I intend to do now.”

You may choose to never question your precious self-identity, yet surely others will.

Man, that was one terrible article.

We would hang out at an anarchist library in Sydney. Here a bunch of people on the dole gather enough money to rent out the space and run a bookshop. It’s like extremist networking.

Yes, that's exactly how extremists network. They open a bookshop, and before you know it there's bombs going off left and right. Remember kids, books are dangerous, and ffs, stay away from libraries!

I read that Antifa in the US is training people to shoot and punch. It’s the same here. Antifa in Sydney are doing martial arts to, as they would put it, ‘fight the Nazis’. It’s a paramilitary mindset.

Of course, because those peace-loving Nazis just want everybody to be friends (the ones left after the ethnic cleansing is done, I mean). I also read somewhere that Antifa is trying to get their hands on nerve gas and nuclear material.

It’s more dangerous than ISIS.

Absolutely! Breaking windows and punching Nazis is a threat to civilization itself. All it takes is one window too many and the nukes will be flying. Mark my words.

There are a lot of very damaged people who are drawn to it.

Well, duh! Everyone knows that only crazy people oppose fascists. What did the fascists ever do to us?

[Grizzly]

Interesting, 5 eye psyop, they got going, there... ^^^^

[American Dream]

Teenager obsessed with Nazis and Satanism who said 'let's fill London's streets with blood' jailed


Jacek Tchorzewski was sentenced to four years behind bars

September 20 2019 7:45 PM


A Nazi-obsessed Buckinghamshire teenager who said it was his dream to plan a terror attack and vowed to fill London's streets with blood has been jailed.

Jacek Tchorzewski built up a cache of terrorist manuals and guides for homemade firearms, and had an interest in Satanism and occult practices.

The 18-year-old, of High Wycombe, was caught with a range of documents for planning an attack when his electronics were seized on February 20 this year.

Sentencing him to four years behind bars on Friday Judge Anuja Dhir QC said: "They (prosecutors) say that the examination of your devices revealed that you are a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi with an interest in Satanism and occult practices."

The dark-haired, lightly-bearded and bespectacled defendant stood in the dock wearing a shirt and tie as he was jailed.

In June Tchorzewski admitted 10 counts of possession of documents containing information of use to a terrorist.

Ms Dhir said the following month a "chilling" handwritten note found in his prison cell read: "Let's fill our hearts with terror. And London's streets with blood."

Prosecutor Naomi Parsons told the court at the Old Bailey: "He has an obsession, admiration for Nazis, neo-Nazis, far right extremists, far right murderers."

Among the PDFs found on his hard drive were the FM 5-31 Army Field Manual and Expedient Homemade Firearms Vol II. He also had The Big Book Of Mischief, The Infection Cookbook and The Terrorist's Handbook, as well as how-to guides for building his own weapons, including a "zip gun" - a firearm made from welded pipes.

Other guides in his possession contained instructions for making a pistol out of sheet metal and a silencer made from a plastic bottle.

The Polish national who had stayed with his mother in the UK had also professed that it was his dream to "plan some terrorism".

The court heard that he said: "I just wanna...I had this stupid plan, when I would meet up with someone, we would live off grid...and plan some terrorism."

He went on: "We would import guns from Balkans, chemistry from Germany...yeah, that's my dream."

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/e ... 18426.html

[American Dream]

The Violent Consequences of Antisemitic Bigotry




While overt antisemitism was widely rejected in the post- WWII era because of its association with the Nazis, the most vulgar forms of Jew-hatred lived on in neonazi and other far-right circles, and have proliferated in the internet era. These can now be seen clearly in countless memes that depict Soros as a puppet master controlling Obama, Clinton, the “deep state,” immigrants and social movements. One of these, an image commissioned by right-wing radio personality Mike Cernovich and drawn by libertarian artist Ben Garrison, shows a hand labeled “Rothschilds” controlling a suspended “Soros” puppet, who in turn holds the strings of American generals H.R. McMaster and David Petraeus, who stand in for the so-called deep state that is critical of Trump.

The fables told about Soros and his power to manipulate history and the fate of the world from behind the scenes are a modernization of the “Jews control the world” conspiracy fantasy.

The depictions of Soros as puppet master and octopus, as the malevolent power behind everything that White nationalists and their Make American Great Again apologists despise, are antisemitic. They re-circulate images and ideas that blame Jewish people for the ills of the world—and that attribution of malevolence spills over to all Jewish people. Moreover, in the imagination of the Right, the distinction between “Jews” and their other boogeymen is fuzzy, nebulous: liberals, cultural Marxists, global elites, cosmopolitans, socialists: what are they all but a different language for talking about “the Jews?” Or, like Black people, LGBTQ people, and immigrants, they are imagined as the puppets of Jewish elites. In such a context, the assumption that whoever mailed out those pipe bombs was “merely partisan” misses the point—the character of the harm. Regardless of the intent of the bomber, be they violent MAGA fans, hardcore White nationalists, or (as right-wing bloviators Frank Gaffney5 and Rush Limbaugh assert) a “false flag” operation from the Left, the bombs activate circuits of fear and intimidation, ripping away at the already fragile fabric of democratic institutions in the United States.

In the strange moment in which we find ourselves, it has become normal to expect the language from the White House, and from those following along in Trump’s wake, that echoes and amplifies racist and antisemitic ideas once confined to a fringe too readily dismissed. So when the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) runs a television advertisement titled “Owns” suggesting that a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota Dan Feehan is “owned” by George Soros, it is an echo of the final Trump campaign advertisement which used prominent Jewish people and the barely coded language of “global elites” as an antisemitic dog whistle.

The NRCC advertisement has the added feature of depicting Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player who has become famous for protesting racist policing, as an example of “prima donna athlete protesting our anthem.” Kaepernick and the NFL have not only been another favorite target of the President, but the Movement for Black Lives that inspired these protests is yet another imagined piece of the vast conspiracy Soros supposedly controls.

The NRCC and Trump lump a Democratic candidate for Congress, a Black NFL protestor, and—also mentioned in the anti-Feehan advertisement—“antifa” together, and attribute them to George Soros—which should read “the Jews”—and his plan to destroy the United States and turn it over to a new world order that will take away our beloved freedoms.6 On the same day the bomb was dropped in Soros’s mailbox, President Trump declared to a rally in Houston: “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, O.K.? I’m a nationalist. Nationalist! Use that word! Use that word!”

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2018/ ... ic-bigotry

Harold Covington, ROT IN HELL!



This guy lived 64 years too long.

Harold Covington, a longtime neo-Nazi activist with a history spanning four decades and has been seen as both a leader and a pariah within those circles, died July 21 at the age of 64.

“It is with a heavy heart I must inform you all that Harold Armstead Covington, founder of the Northwest Front, passed away last week in his apartment in Bremerton, WA,” a post read on the website of the group he founded to facilitate the “Northwest Imperative” an attempt to make the Pacific Northwest a Whites-Only homeland. “Thankfully, preparations were made and the Party continues to operate in service of the Northwest Imperative.”


Harold Covington, far right stands with Frank Colin and other members of the National Socialist Party of America in a documentary video still.

Born in Burlington, North Carolina, Covington served in the U.S. Army and in 1972 while still enlisted, joined the National Socialist White People’s Party. He eventually moved to apartheid South Africa, and later to Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), where he became a founding member of the Rhodesian White People’s Party, only to be deported in 1976 after threatening a Jewish congregation. Upon his return, he joined the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), a Chicago-based organization founded by Frank Collin that is best known for their 1977 legal battle stemming from their plans to march in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. Covington, served as Colin’s second-in-command and would routinely deflect attention away from Colin’s Jewish ancestry, but Colin would eventually be ousted after being convicted for molesting two 10-year-old boys. Frazier Glenn Miller, who is currently on death row for the 2014 murder of three persons in the Overland Park Jewish Community Center and the Village Shalom retirement home, both in Overland Park, Kansas, was a member of Covington’s North Carolina unit of the NSPA. Covington became president of the NSPA and in 1980 lost a Republican primary run for attorney general of North Carolina. He resigned his presidency in 1981 and eventually moved to the United Kingdom, helping to organize the neo-Nazi terrorist organization Combat-18. Returning to the United States, he started the National Socialist White People’s Party, but had to stop using the name when he was sued for copyright infringement by the George Lincoln Rockwell Foundation, Inc.

By this time Covington had begun to be seen by others within neo-Nazi circles as a government informant and secretly Jewish. Some blowback came because of unsubstantiated claims by him such as saying he served in the Rhodesian Army and how he had a connection with John Hinckley, the attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, but especially because of his penchant to attack other leaders within those circles, particularly those who attacked him.

Still, Covington managed to influence those like mass shooter Dylann Roof, who cited him as such in an online manifesto found after he shot and killed nine Black church goers at Emanuel African Methodist Church. Covington, in turn, referred to the shooting as “a preview of coming attractions”.

The Northwest Front blog had not been updated since Thanksgiving until today, when the announcement of Covington’s death was announced.

http://idavox.com/index.php/2018/07/24/ ... t-in-hell/

[American Dream]

Atomwaffen Division’s Washington State Cell Leader Stripped of Arsenal in U.S., Banned from Canada

Seattle police seized a slew of firearms, records show, while Canadian authorities found he was involved with “an organization that may engage in terrorism.”



Border agents searched Cole's luggage, and found a skull mask balaclava and an Atomwaffen Division flag inside his bag. When questioned about press reports tying him to Atomwaffen Division, Cole admitted to his involvement with the group and stated that he “shares a Fascist ideology, 'strong dominate the weak'.” He also admitted he owned an AK-47 and multiple handguns “for his own protection.”

Cole's phone was also searched by border agents, who downloaded several images from the device. Amongst them are a photograph of Cole and another man wearing skull mask balaclavas in front of the gates of Auschwitz, the death camp where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews. Images of him posing with other Atomwaffen members, firearms, and the group's flag were also recovered from Cole's phone.

According to multiple sources close to law enforcement, Cole previously attracted the interest of Canadian authorities by frequently driving across the border to British Columbia, sometimes several times a week. In late May, Cole was detained by the Canadian Border Service Agency because of press reports linking him to Atomwaffen Division, as well as “his overseas travel to Ukraine,” where several right-wing extremists have traveled to fight with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion against Russia-backed separatists.

According to court records, he was held by Canadian authorities and placed into deportation proceedings due to his involvement in “an organization that may engage in terrorism,” per Section 34 [1][F] of the Canadian Immigration Code. According to records prepared by the Seattle Police Department, Cole was deported in July and “barred from Canada for life.”

The Canadian Border Services Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police both declined to comment on Cole's deportation, the Atomwaffen Division or its affiliated organizations in Canada, citing the restrictions of Canada’s Privacy Act.

Earlier this year, Patrik Mathews, a master corporal in the Canadian Military Reserve went AWOL after being identified as a recruiter for the Base. Mathews—who reportedly came to the attention of multiple Canadian security agencies because racist material was previously found by the Canadian Border Services Agency in his car while crossing the border with the United States—is still at large.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kaleb-jam ... rom-canada

[American Dream]

I fell down the rabbit hole of alt-right propaganda and this is what I learned

It's true what they say about the alt-right: it's a tiny – I mean, really tiny – group of people and its members reside largely in the gloomier recesses of the internet. So why is such a small cabal having a profoud effect on our modern political discourse? Because, as I found out myself, when something goes wrong in life, it's so incredibly easy to slip down those dark rabbit holes.

The alt-right fantasy of a white ethnostate, which its leading proponents espouse, harks back to a set of ideas last popular in early modern history. We might have considered these now confined to the ideological dustbin but, for some, they are providing a new refuge from a world which makes them feel vulnerable and unheard – just like the alt-right orators they idolise.

Not that long ago, after a bout of debilitating depression which left me housebound, I found myself inadvertently spiralling down the alt-right rabbit hole. I went from watching videos by Paul Joseph Watson, a rather facile right-wing polemicist, to Stefan Molyneux, an alt-lite philosopher with a perverse fixation on race and IQ. Before long, I was fully immersed in the squalid depths of this sordid online subculture composed mainly of young men led by an elitist intellectual vanguard.

More: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al ... 91376.html

[American Dream]

Wolf Age

Shane Burley



Operation Werewolf

In the world of neo-fascist esoterica, you might hear the term “Wolf Age” bandied about. This is supposedly the period we are in. Wolf Age comes from the Odinic way of saying “Kali Yuga”, a term appropriated by fascists from the Vedic prophecies. Kali Yuga is the last of four ages and is the stage when humanity is at its lowest form, separated from enlightenment and social bonds. Racist “Traditionalist” philosophers like the ultra-fascist Julius Evola reinterpreted this as Nazi cosplay, seeing the Kali Yuga as the end time defined by degenerate identities, particularly non-white people, women, and secularized Jews. The Kali Yuga, or Wolf Age, has become a catch-all for the era of decline that members of the far-right think we are living in, an idea often built on paranoid delusions about the “traditional family” or “white survival.”

The Wolf Age is named as such because it is when wolves emerge. Evola wrote that in the Kali Yuga, people have to become spiritual warriors and “men against time,” living out their principles in total war against the system. Neoreactionaries, another form of pseudointellectual fascism popular in Silicon Valley and found in abundance on 8Chan, claim that these spiritual warriors need to recede from the Kali Yuga, build subsistence farms, and wait for the Golden Age to return.

Other men can’t wait. Instead, they emerge as wolves wanting to live out a vision of themselves as soldiers fighting for their tribe. In a world where the fate of “your people” is on the line, little else can seem to matter. White genocide is a fable told to gain recruits and illicit impulsivity. It determines the course of people’s lives, and adds to their despair.

This white panic has been years in the making, but is only now beginning to reach a critical mass. In 2001, Pat Buchanan, a figure at the heart of the American conservative movement and a check-in station for people on their way to full-blown white nationalism, released the Death of the West. The book posits that America is losing its identity due to “mass immigration,” the de-emphasis on Christianity, and the move towards multiculturalism. It is no accident that it almost replicates the title of Oswald Spengler’s 1922 The Decline of the West, a German conservative revolutionary book that set about a nationalist worldview in Europe and helped solidify this persistent gothic fantasy that the “West” is under assault and must be defended at all costs.

“We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse,” Buchanan writes in his 2011 book Suicide of a Superpower. He places ethnic nationalism right where he wants it, as the essential driving force of geopolitics.

“We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited—the best and greatest country on earth.”

“As the pace and scope of fascist mass murders increase, the counter narrative about frightful antifascists surges alongside it.”

The identitarian movement, which is the European version of the alt-right, has created a mass movement targeting migrants and refugees. The identitarians have reframed history as an ethnic struggle so as to subvert the way participants see themselves and their mission.

“We are returning to the archaic, that is, the eternal condition of mankind, which the brief parenthesis of ‘modernity’ made us forget, in other words, the rivalry of peoples, of ethnic and cultural blocs and of civilisations,” claims Guillaume Faye, one of the perennial leaders of the European New Right, in his manifesto titled Why We Fight.

Buchanan has been joined by a whole range of authors and figures that exist in the grey area between the GOP and something else, sometimes called the alt-lite, sometimes national populists, and sometimes simply the people who take genocidal ideas and coat them in Americana.

The stories here, whether by Spengler, or Buchanan, or on 8Chan all send the same message: White people are finite. They have finite land, finite cultural space, finite populations. And finite time to do something about it. This is not a proposition that results in public policy or seasoned debate; it demands the kind of action that the shooters know the public would condemn but they imagine history would venerate. Sometimes you have to become a wolf to protect the flock.

That Liberal Media and Motivations

These shootings are always covered in the same way by media outlets: placing the individual front and center. The shooter is the center of the news stories, and the police, reporters, and community are charged with the task of getting to the heart of why they did it. In the better stories, the survivors are there too, but understanding personal motivation is still key: Who are they? What were they thinking? What drove them to it? Fascism is not about mental illness, but about ideas and anger. While the stories will certainly talk about the influence of white nationalist movements, they still focus on how a shooter drove nine hours to El Paso to kill, and went into Walmart because he was lost and hungry.

In the wake of a violent attack, the news is at the mercy of law enforcement, who sets the tone for how a crime is dealt with. The social factors that lead to these events mean nothing in a courtroom, and are often missing from the reporting.

In a letter to Franz Mehring, Friedrich Engels writes that “ideology is a process accomplished by the so-called thinker consciously, it is true, but with a false consciousness. The real motive forces impelling him remain unknown to him; otherwise it simply would not be an ideological process. Hence he imagines false or seeming motive forces.”

We often understand lone-wolf shootings as the act of a single individual, without seeing the structural and ideological forces taking place behind their backs. But we also implicitly understand that when a lone-wolf killer is acting on white nationalist ideas, they are never truly alone. To explain that people often seek formal connections between the killer and white nationalist organizations, yet in an era where formalized organizations are becoming less central to political and social action, the effort could be in vain.

This does not mean, however, that these shootings are simply outbursts of the deranged. They are part and parcel of a white insurgency that has found its voice in an emerging fascism. There are people responsible for this beyond the shooters themselves. White supremacy is real and undergirds the rise of mass shootings. White nationalism has created an impetus for violence, teaching the how and the why by building an ideology, an apocalyptic scenario, and a method of action. One person pulled the trigger, but thousands took part in reconfiguring their worldview. It is therefore important to reject these singular narratives about the individual and see it in its larger context. The shooting is one moment in a guerrilla war that white nationalism has staged with all of us as combatants.

This era of lone-wolf killings is a sign of where we are at in the US and what we can expect for the future. The Armageddon imagined by white nationalists is one of their own making, but we all have to live in it if they continue to try to make it real.

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Understanding the El Paso killer’s manifesto in context

But let me turn now to the question of his leftist views that include a hatred of corporations, the two-party system and environmental degradation. Unless you haven’t been paying attention, this dynamic has been at play for nearly a decade now as I have pointed out repeatedly on this blog.

The first time it came to my attention was over the ideological bloc formed around Syria, with leftists and rightists repeating the same talking points. On the right side of my blog, you’ll see a category called Red-Brown Alliance and you’ll find fourteen articles. In addition, there’s another category somewhat redundantly called right-left convergence that will return links to another five articles, the earliest dated June 16, 2014. Finally, there are articles that are categorized both as Russia and Fascism that overlap with the prior categories. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t allow you to retrieve articles that have multiple categories but there are at least four. So, altogether there are at least 23.

In many ways, the May 9, 2014 article titled “National Bolshevism rides again” is a good introduction to the phenomenon of leftist/rightist convergence. In Weimar Germany, the Nazi movement began as a demagogic attack on corporations and the Jews. Since many Jews were recent immigrants from Eastern Europe fleeing economic ruin and pogroms, they were treated like Latinos are in the USA today—as scapegoats.

Even before the Nazi party was formed, there were ultra-nationalists who shared Hitler’s hatred of the Jews and the banks. Among the representatives of the Kremlin in Germany was one Karl Radek who proposed a bloc between them and the Communist Party. He urged that the Communists commemorate the death of Albert Schlageter, a member of the Freikorps—the rightwing militia that killed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. In a battle against the Allied occupation of the Ruhr after WWI, Schlageter was killed and became a martyr of the right-wing, a German Timothy McVeigh so to speak. Radek stated that “…we believe that the great majority of nationalist minded masses belong not to the camp of the capitalists but to the camp of the Workers.”

Among the Communists most swayed by Karl Radek’s thinking was Ruth Fischer who gave a speech to rightwing students:

Whoever cries out against Jewish capital…is already a fighter for his class, even though he may not know it. You are against the stock market jobbers. Fine. Trample the Jewish capitalists down, hang them from the lampposts…But…how do you feel about the big capitalists, the Stinnes, Klockner?…Only in alliance with Russia, Gentlemen of the “folkish” side, can the German people expel French capitalism from the Ruhr region.

As a movement, National Bolshevism was independent of the Nazi Party even though it shared many of its precepts. Of the top Nazi leadership, it was Gregor Strasser who was most consistently hostile to big business. When Hitler decided to consolidate his rule around a more openly pro-capitalist agenda, Strasser and his cohorts were rounded up and executed during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Joining Strasser on the leftwing of the Nazi Party (using the term very loosely) was Joseph Goebbels who eventually peeled away from the left and became a top Nazi official.

After WWII, the National Bolsheviks and neo-Nazi groups began to crawl out of the underground and form new groups that were for the most part ignored by the left. If you want to read about their growing influence today, I strongly advise getting a hold of Anton Shekhovtsov’s “Russia and the Western Far-right: Tango Noir” that I reviewed for CounterPunch last year (https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/02 ... barbarism/). What has been happening over the past 8 years or so is a geopolitical realignment that brought together Putin’s nationalist ambitions, the far-right in Europe including Marine Le Pen and the AfD in Germany, and many on the left who supported Assad and the Donetsk separatists on an “anti-imperialist” basis.

RT.com has been key to this realignment. Early on, RT executives figured out that “Russia is good” programming would not work in the West but if you mixed “Russia is good” with “The West is Bad”, you might have a winning formula. This is commonly known as “whataboutism” and has a certain viability since it is based on the obvious reality that the West is pretty damned bad. If Assad is blowing up Syrian hospitals, then you can always feature news about Saudi Arabia doing the same thing in Yemen. (Not that you can get any news about Russian jets bombing hospitals in Idlib.)

While a bogus anti-imperialism brought the left and the right together, there has been a gradual adoption of “class struggle” rhetoric on the far right that echoes National Bolshevism and even Gregor Strasser’s hostility to banks and corporations. So much of this is cropping up nowadays, it surely must have seeped into Patrick Crusius’s brain. With a huge megaphone on Fox News, Tucker Carlson has been sounding “leftist” notes that must have endeared him to Max Blumenthal and Stephen F. Cohen who are regular guests on his show to talk about the need to avoid WWIII (i.e., back Putin’s war on the Syrian poor).

Within the last year or so, Carlson has begun to trash the rich. He shared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s resistance to Amazon building a headquarters in Long Island City, saying “Why is New York, which is crumbling, I’m there a lot, you may be there now, the city’s falling apart. It smells. The subways break. It’s disgusting. Why would the city be spending $3 billion to the richest man in the world?” He has also said things like “I’m definitely against a system where really the only success stories are like 27 billionaires who hate America, which is where we are now.” And “Our leaders don’t care. We are ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation to the people they rule.”

Finally, on the question of whether Patrick Crusius is a “Green”. He wrote:

The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources. This has been a problem for decades. For example, this phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic “The Lorax”. Water sheds around the country, especially in agricultural areas, are being depleted. Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent. Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn’t willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience. The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations.

Every word of this is true. It doesn’t matter that the words were written by a fascist killer. We are dealing with an environmental crisis that is impossible to ignore unless you are some billionaire with huge investments in Monsanto, Exxon-Mobil and Dow Chemical. Keep in mind that Edward Abbey was a great radical environmentalist who devoted his life to writing about and acting on the need to protect wildlife and nature. He was also a vicious nativist who once wrote an editorial for the NY Times in 1988 that was rejected because it was toxic. Titled “Immigration and Liberal Taboos”, it stated:

Therefore-let us close our national borders to any further mass immigration, legal or illegal, from any source, as does every other nation on earth. The means are available, it’s a simple technical-military problem. Even our Pentagon should be able to handle it. We’ve got an army somewhere on this planet, let’s bring our soldiers home and station them where they can be of some actual and immediate benefit to the taxpayers who support them.

As scary as these white racist terror attacks are, we are not on the verge of a civil war in the USA or a fascist takeover.

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James Mason



Atomwaffen Division associates killed three people from 2017 to 2018. In May 2017, an apartment where four members lived became a murder scene when Devon Arthurs killed two of his three roommates, Andrew Oneschuk and Jeremy Himmelman. The fourth man, an active duty National Guardsman and the group’s founder, Brandon Russell, was arrested later for possessing materials to make a dirty bomb. Inside the apartment was a framed picture of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, whose terrorist attack had been inspired by the Turner Diaries, a book written by Mason’s friend and mentor William Pierce. In January 2018, Samuel Woodward, another Atomwaffen Division member, was arrested for stabbing to death Blaze Bernstein, a gay, Jewish student, in an Orange County, California, park.

In December 2017, Nicholas Giampa, a follower of Atomwaffen Division on Twitter, was arrested for killing the parents of his 16-year-old girlfriend, after they made her break up with him over concerns about his ties to neo-Nazism.

Amid the revival of interest, Mason himself also reemerged. Several of his books, in addition to Siege, have been brought back into print by Atomwaffen Division members. He now publishes new essays online and gives interviews to white supremacist podcasts. Mason also meets with Atomwaffen Division members in his swastika-bedecked apartment in Denver, Colorado, where he coaches them on the finer points of propagandizing murder and genocide.

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