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This is interesting. Dan Glazebrook has an article in the latest
CounterPunch magazine (the bi-monthly print publication) titled
"Alexander Dugin and the Politically-Correct Fascism Gaining Ground on
the Left" that breaks with the "axis of resistance" bloc that he was at
one time associated with as a contributor to RT.com and Mint Press.
Clearly, there must have been some dust-up between him and me at some
point over his pro-Assad, pro-Putin politics since he had blocked me on
FB, one among my legion of ideological adversaries. But this new article
shows a surprising shift away from the sort of junk you get from
Grayzone, Consortium News, UNZ Review, Off-Guardian, Moon of Alabama,
Global Research, et al.
Furthermore, what makes his article particularly interesting is how much
it overlaps with the research of Alexander Reid Ross, who is persona non
grata in "axis of resistance" circles, so much so that he might be
described as the Von Helsing to vampire Max Blumenthal.
If there's any good reason to subscribe to CounterPunch magazine, it is
to stay abreast of important trends on the left like this, not to speak
of helping to fund America's most important voice of the left.
From Glazebrook:
Alexander Reid-Ross explains how these Duginist sites and think tanks
then amplify their influence across the rest of the web: “Dugin’s
thought pieces are read by journalists and editors with other sites like
Fort-Russ, which claims to receive some millions of views per month. RT
and Sputnik pick up stories and writers from sites like Fort-Russ and
Katehon, elevating the Kremlin’s “spin” to more and more users. They
then bring on leftist journalists from North Atlantic countries in order
to make that spin more attractive to larger audiences in the West.”
Fort-Russ’s own website confirms this strategy: “With 3 million readers
a month, we have often featured ‘uncomfortable truths’ which
‘mainstream’ Kremlin-backed sources like RT and Sputnik were unable to.
We gave the raw story to readers before RT and Sputnik found the right
angle to couch it in. As a result, many of our features and breaking
stories have been featured by both of these outlets later on.” In
December 2013, Dugin compiled a list of hundreds of politicians and
intellectuals he sought to cultivate through involvement with RT,
entitled “Countries and persons, where there are grounds to create an
elite club and/or a group of informational influence through the line of
Russia Today”. The list included rightwingers like Viktor Orban and de
Benoist as well as leftwingers such as Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras.
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