Agitation and Propaganda: Russian Indicted for Using US Political Groups as Foreign Agents
A Russian national backed by the Russian state has been indicted by the US Justice Department for funding and using members of American political groups as foreign agents of Russian Intelligence in nearly a decade of malign influence operations See , https://bylinetimes.com/2022/08/02/agitation-and-propaganda-russian-indicted-for-using-us-political-groups-as-foreign-agents/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Alexander Ionov shaking hands with Omali Y. of the APSP Ionov's photo album on Facebook is chock full of items like this. https://www.facebook.com/alexander.ionov.54/posts/pfbid0QmUibsiPfQDRihfnLUvE1wU61Gf8s8SrFAJqsmeocXi1jSyAfe4U98EdnnHFK5enl https://www.facebook.com/alexander.ionov.54/posts/pfbid073Uzpvkj5dY7btGHpDfN4AALVchLTvpPETiYfGxb66cM28Lc8UnfibCxQ79edMK1l Ionov with Assad. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=364390433679826&set=t.100003266164592&type=3 Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, U.S. leftists, https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/02/moscow-conference-draws-fascists-neo.html . UNAC published a report on their trip to Russia Read more at: https://web.archive.org/web/20150531180147/http://stop-imperialism.com/2014/12/30/4923/ Ionov's Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia , is tight with Alexander Dugin's Eurasian Youth Union. During that conference in Moscow, Joe Lombardo of UNAC was rather chummy with the activists of the Alexander Dugin's Eurasian Youth Union, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=853055928078461&set=a.853045201412867.1073741944.100001221849912&type=1&theater . In the photo you will see the flags of Dugin's org. fluttering around Lombardo. Via https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left , which has hundreds of embedded hyperlinks. Georges Sorel and the National Bolsheviks, are discussed in the opening sections, brw. Western Stalinists Allied With Fascists <https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left> At some point after the founding of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, the International Action Center and the AGMR seem to have come in contact with each other, with the IAC being mentioned on the “Anti-Globalist Resistance”‘s website as “US anti-globalists” [archive], though I was not able to find out whether it was through the Anti-Imperialist Camp or LaRouche (which is likely, given Ramsey Clark’s association with the IAC and LaRouche, his trips to Syria, and LaRouchites’ use of Clark’s name to infiltrate anti-war groups during the Gulf War) or the RKRP. The AGMR organized a “Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and Building a Multipolar World” in Moscow [archive] in December 2014. The WWP-affiliated United Anti-War Coalition (UNAC), on whose board are Sara Flounders and Abayomi Azikiwe [archive], and the IAC sent five representatives as delegates to the conference [archive]: Margaret Kimberley, member of UNAC’s board [archive] and Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report Joe Iosbaker of the FRSO Maureen Hannah, a women’s rights activist Bill Dores of the International Action Center Joe Lombardo, member of UNAC’s board [archive] and Co-Coordinator UNAC All the UNAC and IAC delegates signed a joint statement [archive], whose other signatories include: Joe Lombardo of UNAC Margaret Kimberley of the Black Is Back Coalition (whose chairman is Omali Yeshitela [archive] of the Uhuru Movement) and UNAC Marina Dudanova, a member of both the AGMR and of the Boston chapter of UNAC Joe Iosbaker of UNAC Bill Dores of the IAC and UNAC Maureen Hannah Orazio Maria Gnerre, the leader of Millennium, the Italian Communitarian Party. Gnerre was featured on RT to comment on the death of Fidel Castro [archive] Maksim Shevchenko Fedor Biryukov from the Rodina party Oleg Tsarev, the speaker of the Unity Parliament of Novorossiya Aleksandr Kofman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic Andrew Korybko, a Sputnik columnist and regular contributor to the Duginist journal Geopolitica [archive] and to [archive] Katehon [archive] Andrey Kovalenko, the head of the Moscow branch of the Eurasian Youth Union [archive] Aleksandr Ionov of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia [Note: Maksim Shevchenko, one of the participants of this conference and signatories of its joint statement, more recently in 2017 praised the Confederate States of America and Robert E. Lee [archive] after the 2017 far-right rally in the US town of Charlottesville.] The issue with this event, and which UNAC and the IAC omitted from their reports, is that [archive] its discussions leaned heavily towards Dugin’s ideology and its other participants included openly fascist individuals and groups, such as the National Bolshevik Italian Communitarian Party, the Texas Nationalist Movement, and the neo-Confederate League of the South. Israel Shamir, who was present there, is described as “a leading anti-Zionist writer from Israel” [archive] by the UNAC report, which omits that he is in fact a notorious anti-semite who believes in blood libels [archive] and a Holocaust denier. [Note: Alison Weir (who believes in the anti-Semitic blood libel myth [archive]) has been hosted in 2016 by the WWP [archive] and Gilad Atzmon has been quoted in their publications [archive]. Which raises the question of why does the WWP fraternize with people whose antisemitism meant that the Palestine solidarity movement itself has condemned and disavowed them?] The UNAC, WWP and FRSO however painted this conference in a purely positive light and sent another delegation including WWP member Tom Michalak [archive] and FRSO member Joe Iosbaker to the AGMR in 2015 [archive], and hoped for further ties with the AGMR. The FRSO futhermore ran a series [archive] of [archive] articles [archive] by the AGMR in 2015 with ostensibly leftist content except for one which calls the Arab Spring an American plot and supports Russian imperialism. When the UNAC was contacted concerning the AGMR’s reactionary positions, Joe Lombardo simply denied its homophobic positions and its racism, and in 2016 three UNAC members, Bruce Gagnon, Phil Wilayto (who is on UNAC’s board [archive]) and Regis Tremblay visited Odessa with the help of the AGMR [archive], which was coordinated with Joe Lombardo [archive]. This delegation and Victoria Machulko (see below) met with a committee at the European Parliament in May 2016. Phil Wilayto happens to be the coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign, on whose board are [archive]: Victoria Machulko. Machulko and Elena Radzikhovskaya, the only known members of an organization called the “Council of Mothers of Odessa” who, earlier in 2016, were the participants of a “UN Conference” publicized by Russian state media [archive]. The issue is that the conference was presided by Xavier Moreau [archive], a consultant for the far-right TV Libertes [archive]. The conference itself was held by the Human Rights Agency, a NGO which lists no information about its internal organization and membership [archive], has previously organized conferences hosting Michel Collon [archive] and publishes material by Bahar Kimyongür [archive]. Ana Edwards Bruce Gagnon Margaret Kimberley, one of UNAC’s delegates to the Moscow conference Joe Lombardo, one of the UNAC’s delegates to the Moscow conference Ray McGovern, the same former CIA official and conspiracist Infowars contributor regularly hosted by the PSL’s Becker on Sputnik Among the AGMR’s other activities are: meeting in July 2015, in coordination with Rodina members, self-proclaimed leader of the Cherokee Nation, Mashu White Feather [archive]. The Cherokee Nation however traced his ancestry and found no Native American ancestry. an online conference in July 2015 with a representative of the Uhuru Movement [archive] organized for delegations of the Uhuru Movement to visit Moscow in May and September of either 2015 or 2016 [archive] organized for Cynthia McKinney to visit Russia in 2015 [archive] supported Louis Marinelli, a supporter of Californian independence [archive] talks with representatives of Sinn Fein [archive] in July 2017 [archive] In 2015, the AGMR organized another conference, with funding through a state grant. Among the supporters of the event was the Eurasian Youth Union [archive]. Its participants included: Sinn Féin the Catalan Solidarity for Independence party Millenium Omali Yeshitela, the leader of the Uhuru Movement Ramón Nenadic, of Puerto Rican group Boriken Larry Sinkin, a representative of self-proclaimed King Silva of Hawaii Fedor Biryukov of Rodina Ali Mohamed Salem of the Polisario Front Antonio Grego, an Italian fascist. Claudio Mutti wrote a foreword for one of his books Giacomo Matacotta, an Italian fascist and supporter of Grego Louis Marinelli, the Californian independentist Nate Smith of the Texas Nationalist Movement There appears to be a close collaboration between the AGMR and Rodina, as Ionov has been hosted by Fedor Biryukov of Rodina on TV [archive] and was part of discussions involving the chairman of Rodina, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, and Fedor Biryukov [archive]. Ionov also used to be the co-chair of the Committee for Solidarity with the peoples of Libya and Syria, headed by former Rodina leader Sergey Baburin (and of which Israel Shamir is a member [archive]) and has participated in its conferences together with Shamir [archive], a member of the Coordinating Council of the Anti-Maidan Movement [archive] whose co-chairs include Dmitry Sablin [archive] from Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and Nikolai Starikov [archive] who had once been in the Anti-Orange Committee, and was member of the Presidium of the Officers of Russia [archive] along with general Leonid Ivashov. Ionov is also a member of the Public Council of the Central District branch of the Moscow City Police [archive], a member of Moscow’s Public Supervisory Commission [archive], a Deputy Director for International Cooperation for the Institute of Problems of Security and Stable Development [archive], and the Head of the Subcommittee for the Development of International Cooperation of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [archive] (a bourgeois organization supporting the interests of capitalists from states formerly part of the Soviet Union and founded by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a lobbying group promoting business interests). As a member of the latter, he has been promoting Russian business interests in Syria [archive] in the event of a post-war reconstruction, and as the founder and CEO of Ionov Transcontinental [archive] he has been offering security services in Syria and has himself fought on the side of the Assad regime. [Note: Among other Russian mercenaries fighting for the Assad regime in Syria are Kirill Ananyev (a member of Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and The Other Russia party), Aleksey Ladygin and Igor Kosoturov, all three of whom had fought on the side of the Novorossiyan forces previously and were members of the PMC Wagner mercenary company led by mercenary and admirer of Nazi Germany Dmitry Utkin.] [Note: it is mentioned the AGMR’s office contained portraits of Fidel Castro, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Kim Il-Sung, Muammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chávez, Che Guevara and Omar Torrijos, which aligns with the European New Right’s position of supporting Third World struggles] On the AGMR’s website is also a post declaring it is an endorser [archive] of a Unity & Solidarity Call initiated by American leftists, which clearly indicates that the proximity and willingness of Stalinists to collaborate with fascists is allowing the latter to infiltrate the Left. On the same page is a call to support a “Multipolar World Against War” declaration [archive], among whose signatories are Cynthia McKinney and Aleksandr Ionov, and which was initiated by the Coop Anti-War Cafe, which claims to be anti-war but whose page links to various conspiracist and 9/11 Truther websites [archive]. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29118): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29118 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104553989/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
