David Icke, Fascism and Conspirituality

The Conspiracy-Conspiracy

Facebook has been targeting QAnon ads towards those interested in alternative health, resulting in what academics have identified as “Conspirituality,” a strange blend of the New Age movement and right-wing conspiracy theories.[1] The merger of these seemingly paradoxical influences can be traced back to David Icke, who has introduced into conventional conspiracy theories a blend of New Age and Theosophical ideas, which have long had a close relationship with fascism, and in particular, Nazism. Effectively, through the influence of QAnon and the advent of Covid-19, Icke’s message is gaining increasing appeal within the New Age movement, who have adopted his right-wing conspiracy theories, such that they have come to identify the Left as the enemy of political and spiritual freedom. Merging their New Age beliefs, they hope to prevent the advent of a “New World Order,” and to assist instead in an “Ascension” to the utopian promises of the Age of Aquarius, which in fact, is the true goal of the Luciferian and fascist conspiracy.

One of the major supporters of QAnon has been Major General Paul E. Vallely. In 1980, Vallely wrote a MindWar article with Michael Aquino, a former member of the Church of Satan who founded the Temple of Set. Aquino’s satanic activity was connected to a pedophile and blackmail network with ties to the White House. The operation was run by Edwin Wilson, a member of Ted Shackley’s team of rogue CIA agents known as the “Secret Team,” who were linked with the JFK assassination, the Golden Triangle heroin trade and the Iran-Contra Affair.[2] According to John DeCamp, author of The Franklin Cover-Up, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn during the McCarthy era with Lewis Rosenstiel and J. Edgar Hoover.[3]

Nevertheless, Vallely backed QAnon, who claimed the existence of a “Deep State” operated by a satanic pedophile network, who are supposedly being opposed by a group within the government and military referred as “white hats.” Vallely was interviewed by Mike Filip on AmeriCanuck Internet Radio of Canada, on October 14, 2019, where he explained:

Q-Anon is information that comes out of a group called ‘The Army of Northern Virginia.’ This is a group of military intelligence specialists, of over 800 people that advises the president. The president does not have a lot of confidence in the CIA or the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) much anymore.  So the President relies on real operators, who are mostly Special Operations type of people. This is where ‘Q’ picks up some of his information.[4]

QAnon is disinformation, deceiving those who suspect the world around them may not be as it seems, but who may not be sufficiently informed about the true nature of the conspiracy to discern the deception. The reason for the conspiracy to have been able to proceed unchecked for at least the last 250 years has not been attributable to any lack of documentation or public exposure. Sufficient literature has been produced to bring to light the activities of the conspirators and their identities, including John Robison’s Proof of a Conspiracy (1797), Augustin Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, and more recently Nesta Webster’s Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1924). So, we shouldn’t be overly enthusiastic about the proliferation of “conspiracy theory” among the alternative media in recent years.

There are many reasons for the inability of a significant enough opposition to coalesce against the conspiracy, primary among them being of course elite control of the media. However, the opposition that has been able to form has been not been able to blossom into a broader movement, largely because of internal disunity. Most disruptive is the fact that, while the conspirators and the organizations they operate have been for the most part identified, conspiracy researchers, due to their different political affiliations, are not agreed as to their goals, and therefore, the appropriate solution either.

Part of the reason for this confusion is what appears to be a disinformation campaign to hijack any growing opposition to the conspiracy. As I have revealed in my recent six-volume book, Ordo ab Chao, the key modus operandi of the conspiracy has been to deploy what I call a “conspiracy-conspiracy.” It is a deliberate attempt to cultivate an errant interpretation of the conspiracy to create a controlled opposition of naïve dissidents who are ultimately recruited into inadvertently serving the conspiracy. The reason this happens is that is those who are dismayed with the direction our societies have taken tend to become desperate for change, and too ready to throw in their support with anyone who appears to represent their interests. They look at a leader’s words, not what they stand for, which makes them easily duped.

The strategy was first exposed in the dystopian novel 1984, written by George Orwell, a close friend of Aldous Huxley, a leading member of a family intricately tied with the conspiracy and himself the true architect of the CIA’s MK-Ultra “mind control” program. Winston, the main character, meets his superior, an Inner Party official O’Brien, who presents himself as part of an underground resistance movement known as the Brotherhood, formed by Big Brother’s arch-enemy, Emmanuel Goldstein. O’Brien gives Winston a copy of Goldstein’s book, which reveals the regime’s strategy for maintaining power. The book is only used to entrap Winston. When Winston is captured by the Thought Police, it is revealed that O’Brien is one of its agents and wrote the book collaboratively with other Party members.

The tactic dates back to at least the Enlightenment, and the fomenting of the French and American Revolutions by rallying the masses into believing they were fighting “tyranny,” in the person of the aristocracy and the Catholic Church, or King George III of England. The same tactic was employed by using the cause of communism to channel the Russian people’s frustration against the state to bring about the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Most importantly, the Nazis made use of the notorious Protocols of Zion, which purported that the Russian revolution was the outcome of a worldwide Judeo-Masonic conspiracy, to frighten the Germans into accepting Hitler’s fascist dictatorship to prevent the same happening to their country. This was despite the fact that the Nazis were funded by the same bankers who funded the Bolsheviks.[5]

The key conspirator in this plot was a double-agent named Boris Brasol, working simultaneously for the British and the Russians, who then imported the same tactic to the United States.[6] During the 1930s, Brasol maintained a wide array of contacts among right-wing Russians in the United States, among them was “Count” Anastasy Vonsiatsky (1898 – 1965). Vonsiatsky was also associated with a textile magnate Wickliffe Draper (1891 – 1972) Draper, who was fascinated by eugenics, and sympathetic to the Nazis, founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937, “to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences.” According to a 1960 article in The Nation, an unnamed geneticist said Draper told him he “wished to prove simply that Negroes were inferior.”[7]

Brasol became involved with the American branch of the Knights of Malta, known as the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Although it poses as a Catholic organization, the order is a Masonic group that merely claims to be the real Knights of Malta.[8] Also known as the “Shickshinny Knights,” the group was headquartered in the small town of Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. Father Peter Baptiste Duffee, or “Father Duffy,” linked Brasol to an occult order called the Ancient and Noble Order of the Blue Lamoo, which he claimed was a rogue branch of the Shickshinny Knights of Malta and the ubiquitous Sovereign Order of St. John.[9] The Blue Lamoo was said to be founded by “Atlantian Initiates of the Sun.” Membership was limited to “Aryan People of all classes.” The purposes of the group were to free Aryans from the “financial bondage of the Judeo-Mongols,” and “To Unite Science and Religion, whereby the Aryans again may be Supermen and Superwomen and establish the Aryan Race as the Christ Race leading the World into the Millennium.”[10] This lore, Duffee insisted, disguised the order’s true function as a “Nazi propaganda organization,” which he linked to the better known German propaganda front, the Fichte Bund, of which Brasol was allegedly a representative.[11]

Brasol was described as one of the principal advisers and the “brain trust” of the America First Committee (AFC).[12] Founded in 1940 to lobby to keep the United States out of World War II, the AFC represented a confluence of right-wing organizations, including the Silver Shirts, the German America Bund, the Ku Klux Klan, and was funded by the Nazis.[13] The AFC and its successor organization, the American Security Council (ASC) are considered the founding organizations of the Old Right.

The ASC, which has been referred to as the “heart” of the Military-Industrial Complex, exploited the same fear of communism to help justify the enormous military buildup to protect America’s “freedom,” while simultaneously feeding directly into their profits.[14] Their fascist agenda, known as corporatism, was disguised as a support of neoliberalism, using the fear of communism to call for a reduction or elimination of the role of government in the economy, a function that was characterized by Friedrich Hayek as tantamount of “totalitarianism.” The main objective, however, was to remove impediments to their further profits through tax reductions, deregulation and privatization, ultimately allowing the function of the government to be handed over into their hands through private corporations.

The primary backers of the Old Right were the Regnery family, who would serve as the godfathers of the American right for the remainder of the century, up to and including the rise of the Alt-Right. ASC member Henry Regnery, son of AFC founder William Regnery, founded the conservative Regnery Publishing. According to E. Howard Hunt, the CIA subsidized Regnery Publishing because of its pro-Nazi stance.[15] Regnery Publishing did its part to promote libertarian economics, publishing works of Friedrich Hayek, Lugwig von Mises, Alfred Jay Nock and Frank Chodorov, who became editor of Human Events in 1951.

Regnery also had a hand in fanning the UFO phenomenon by publishing ufologists like Jacques Vallée, whose work inspired Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Josef Allen Hynek. In 1973, betraying an interest in MK-Ultra, Regnery published Sybil, a book about multiple personality disorder (MPD), later made into a film for television starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward.[16]

The Silver Shirts were founded by William Dudley Pelley (1890 – 1965), who was closely connected to the founders of the “I AM” Activity, Guy and Edna Ballard.[17] The I AM” cult is what Christopher Partridge has characterized as a “UFO religion,” all of which were influenced by the works of Alice Bailey and Theosophy.[18] During his first telepathic encounter, Ballard met St. Germain in a cave underneath Mount Shasta, who showed him a television set that could receive transmissions from the planet Venus.

Pelley was associated with George Hunt Williamson, one of the original “Four Guys Named George” UFO contactees. Williamson who was connected with the Council of Nine, the same group of “extraterrestial” entities contacted by Andrija Puharich during his work on behalf of the CIA.[19] Williamson was likely the first to propose the existence of a government conspiracy to suppress knowledge of extraterrestrials, when he wrote in UFO Confidential:

Many people have asked the inevitable question: ‘If visitors from other worlds are here, why doesn’t our government inform us of such a momentous event?’ The reason is obvious… all governments, yes all, are under the complete control of the ‘International Bankers’ who also control all money and thus create depressions and prosperity whenever they want it. They want and need a divided world so that wars may continue and their wealth steadily increase.[20]

In 1953, I AM member Robert LeFevre, an associate of AFC founder Merwin K. Hart, founded the Freedom School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[21] Notable teachers at the Freedom School, also known as Rampart College, included Mont Pelerin Society members and godfathers of the libertarian movement in the United States, such as Rose Wilder Lane, Milton Friedman, F.A. “Baldy” Harper, Frank Chodorov, Leonard Read and Ludwig von Mises. From 1957 to 1961 Chodorov, who spent World War II working for Merwin K. Hart, went each year to teach at the Freedom School.[22]

The Freedom School’s main financial support was provided Roger Milliken, CEO of his family’s company, Milliken & Company, who is known as a political godfather to the American conservative movement.[23] Milliken was also the chief backer of the National Review, of William F. Buckley Jr., Knight of Malta, member of Skull and Bones and former agent of the CIA.[24] From the ASC evolved the John Birch Society, who through their association with the National Review, helped give rise to the New Right. Buckley and John Birch Society founder Robert Welch met in 1952 when they were introduced to each other by their mutual publisher, Henry Regnery, who published the book the book that ignited Buckley’s career, God and Man at Yale.[25]

Roy Cohn, who was legal counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist Senate investigations of the 1950s, later became a member of the John Birch Society. According to a 1976 investigation by the New York Assembly’s Office of Legislative Oversight, Birch Society member John Rees’ Information Digest was supplying information to the FBI, CIA, and the National Security Agency.[26] Despite these ties, the JBS railed against the usual suspects of conspiracy theorists, such as the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group.

The John Birch Society, which was closely associated with the Klan, formed part of the cabal involved in the JFK assassination, working with Shackley’s Secret Team and in coordination with Texas Oil tycoons, Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison and H.L. Hunt, member of the Council of the John Birch Society.[27] According to William Torbitt, the pseudonymous author of Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, H.L. Hunt and Murchison were the principal financiers of Permindex—a trade organization headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and a front organization for the CIA—which orchestrated the JFK assassination.[28] The president of Permindex was Prince Gutierez de Spadafora, whose daughter-in-law was related to Hjalmar Schacht.[29] Clay Shaw, who was indicted by Jim Garrison, represented the United States on the board of directors of Permindex. According to Torbitt, the assassination was headed by Louis M. Bloomfield of Montreal, and involved J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon B. Johnson, John Connally, Wernher von Braun, Gordon Novel, Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Lee Harvey Oswald and Ruth and Michael Paine.

Cohn was also close to Lew Rosenstiel, who was part of a consortium with underworld figures like Samuel Bronfman and Meyer Lansky.[30] Rosenstiel’s fourth wife, Susan Kaufman, alleged that Rosenstiel hosted lavish parties that included “boy prostitutes” that her husband had hired “for the enjoyment” of certain guests, which included important government officials and prominent figures in America’s criminal underworld.[31] One of the “blackmail parties” was hosted by Cohn in 1958 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, suite 233. Kaufman testified that young boys were present and Kaufman claimed that Cohn, Hoover and her ex-husband engaged in sexual activity with these minors.[32] Declassified New York government files and research by a private detective corroborated that Cohn was providing “protection” and that “there were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That’s where Cohn got his power from–blackmail.” As Berton Hersch observed, “Like scorpions investigating coitus, Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover would continue to circle each other with wary fascination for decades.”[33]

John Birch Society was co-founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, with Harry Lynde Bradley, co-founder of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and Fred C. Koch, founder of Koch Industries, and father of the infamous Koch brothers, members of the CNP, a powerful and highly secretive umbrella organization and networking group for American conservative activists, founded in 1981. The CNP was described by The New York Times as a “little-known group of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference, “to strategize about how to turn the country to the right.”[34] Like Kerry Thornley, a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and the founder of Discordianism, Charles Koch also attended the LeFevre’s Freedom school, and was converted to Libertarianism, when he was first exposed to Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. Charles Koch was a major funder and trustee of the school by 1966.[35]

Jane Mayer is the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, which in particular discusses the Koch family and their political activities, along with Richard Mellon Scaife, John M. Olin, and the DeVos and Coors families, who work in tandem to influence academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and the American presidency for their own benefit. The Sarah Scaife Foundation was endowed and chaired by Richard Mellon Scaife (1932 – 2014), an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon empire. Scaife’s mother Sarah was the niece of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, an important supporter of the fascist American Liberty League and a supporter of Hitler.[36] Andrew’s son was Paul Mellon, who served with the OSS in Europe during the war, and who was co-heir to one of America’s greatest business fortunes, derived from the Mellon Bank. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Sarah Cordelia Mellon, her brother Richard King Mellon, and her cousins Ailsa Mellon-Bruce and Paul Mellon were all amongst the richest eight people in the United States.[37] After the war, a number influential members of the Mellon family maintained close ties with the CIA, and Mellon family foundations have been used repeatedly as CIA fronts. During his tenure as CIA director, Richard Helms was a frequent guest of the Mellons in Pittsburgh.[38]

Paul Mellon and his wife created the Bollingen Foundation, which financially supported the Eranos conferences, founded by by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn and Theosophist Alice Bailey, and which had extensive ties to representatives of the German Conservative Revolution which gave rise to the Nazis.[39] As admitted by Michael Murphy, one of its founders, the Eranos conferences served as one of the models for the development of Esalen Institute.[40] According to Wouter Hanegraaff in New Age Religion and Western Culture, in addition to the hippies, Esalen had been the second major influence of the 60s counterculture and the rise of the New Age movement.[41]

Paul’s sister Ailsa was married to David Bruce, also a former OSS officer and later US ambassador to Great Britain. Sarah Cordelia’s cousin, William Larimer Mellon Sr., the founder of Gulf Oil, was the grandfather of William Mellon Hitchcock, who funded Leary’s LSD projects at the family’s Millbrook Estate.[42] Hitchcock was sent by his uncle by marriage, David Bruce, to meet with Dr. Stephen Ward to investigate the rumors of Masonically-themed “black magic” parties at Cliveden House connected to the Profumo Affair.[43] J. Edgar Hoover suspected, as did others in American intelligence, that Kennedy may also have been one of Ward’s clients.[44] Another of Ward’s girls was former Scientologist Mary Anne MacLean, who with her husband Robert de Grimston co-founded the Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was connected with the Charles Manson murders.[45]

Reptilian Hypothesis

Ultimately, David Icke’s message like that of the New Age itself, spells consequences with fascist overtones, foreboding a new holocaust intended for the “fundamentalists” of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, who refuse to adapt their age-old faiths for the ecumenism of the New Age movement. By example, according to New Age or occult interpretation, the Atlanteans were destroyed because of their transgressions. Likewise, despite their wishy-washy claims of universal brotherhood and tolerance, the New Age warns of a coming “Ascension” when all those who resist the transformation promised by the Age of Aquarius will be destroyed. Betraying these same fascist tendencies, Alice Bailey warned, “…let us never forget that its Life, its purpose and its directed intentional destiny that’s of importance; and also that when a form proves inadequate, or too diseased or too crippled for the expression of that purpose, it is—from the point of view of the Hierarchy—no disaster when that form has to go. Death is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the Destroyer is not really cruel or undesirable… Therefore, there is much destruction permitted by the Custodians of the Plan and much evil turned into good…”[46] Similarly, according to David Icke:

I do not seek to hide the severity of this period of fundamental change. It will be tough for every one of us… Many will return to light levels (die) in the wake of the physical events and the quickening vibrations. The Earth Spirit is already rising up the subplanes, and through the years ahead she will progress through the whole frequencies in her journey back to Atlantis and beyond... Those who cannot quicken their own vibrations through love and balance will find themselves out of synchronization with the environment around them. This process is already apparent.[47]

In 1989, Icke began to feel a presence around him, and in 1990 a voice told him to look in a bookstore at a particular section of books, one of which was by Betty Shine, a psychic healer. When he met her, Shine told him that she had a message for him from Wang Yee Lee, a being who she said looked like a Chinese mandarin and had Socrates standing next to him, that Icke had been sent to heal the Earth and that the spirit world was going to pass ideas to him. Icke decided in 1991 to visit the pre-Inca Sillustani burial ground near Puno, Peru, where he became fixated at a certain mound in a circle of stones, and felt a number of powerful sensations and new ideas began to pour into him. He described it later as the “kundalini,” exploding up through his spine, activating his brain and his Chakras, triggering a higher level of consciousness. He returned to England and began to write a book about the experience, which he titled Truth Vibrations. Icke wrote that he had been channeling for some time, and had received a message through automatic writing that he was a “Son of the Godhead,” interpreting “Godhead” as the “Infinite Mind.”

As revealed in an excellent documentary by Chris White, called David Icke Debunked, Icke claims to be imparted with insights from a spiritual entity named Rakorski, who he also identifies with the name St Germain. Rakorski is none other than Bailey’s Master Rakoczi, identified by Alice Bailey as the Master tasked with establishing the Age of Aquarius. Icke calls him the Lord of All Creation, saying that he is “directly responsible for the changes the earth will undergo.” Essentially, Icke, like other conspiracy researchers such as Jordan Maxwell, Michael Tsarion, and Acharya S, is an ardent critic of the Illuminati, but presents the myriad speculations of Theosophy as the truth being suppressed. All his main teachings are Theosophical. His descriptions of Atlantis in 1992’s Love Changes Everything are clearly indebted both to Blavatsky and Bailey.[48]

Also derived from the tradition of Theosophy is the central theme of Icke’s conspiracy theory, his reptilian hypothesis.[49] One of Icke’s key sources is American author Zecheriah Sitchin. Born in Soviet Azerbaijani, but raised in Israel, Sitchin received a degree in economics from the University of London, and taught himself Sumerian cuneiform. However, Sitchin wrote his books at a time when only specialists could read the Sumerian language, and since then, sources such as the 2006 book Sumerian Lexicon have made the language more accessible to non-experts. Sitchin’s ideas have been rejected by scientists and academics, who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory, and criticized for flawed methodology and mistranslations as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.

According to both Sitchin and Icke, humans are the result of a genetic experiment carried out by a race of reptilian aliens called Anunnaki. The Anunnaki are analogous to the Anakim of the Book of Genesis, the “Fallen Angels” who supposedly intermarried with the female descendants of Cain to produce a race of giants. The myth, which was associated with the Jewish Kabbalah, contributed to the development of the theory of Aryan race, whose civilization of Atlantis was supposedly destroyed by the Flood, after which they fled to the mountains of Asia.[50] There, according to Blavatsky, their influence resulted in the rise of Tibetan Buddhism, a theory that particularly fascinated the Nazis.[51] The same legend has contributed to the Ancient Astronauts hypothesis, or “White Gods” theories, the belief that ancient cultures like those of the Egyptians and the Maya of South America, were visited by Caucasian civilizers who were ignorantly worshipped by primitive peoples as “gods,” as popularized by authors like Graham Hancock.[52]

However, as noted by Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn, “while Icke draws upon Sitchin’s ‘ancient astronomer’ theory, he develops it in favor of his own New Age and conspiratorial agenda.”[53] Through the encouragement of wars, genocide, sexual perversions, and black magic ritual and sacrifice, Icke believes, the Anunnaki release large amounts of negative energy, which is then absorbed by Anunnaki waiting in the fourth dimension. Needing overseers of their human slaves, Icke claims that the Anunnaki interbred with another alien race, commonly referred to as the “Nordics” because of their blond hair and blue eyes. The resulting “super-hybrids” are none other than the Aryans who inhabited Atlantis.[54] Icke writes in The Biggest Secret, “The Brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression of the Babylonian Brotherhood of reptile-Aryan priests and “royalty’.” Their reptilian characteristics, which “top-down control, emotionless ‘cold-blooded’ attitudes, an obsession with ritualistic behavior, and so on,” is directly related to fascist militarism, technocratic rationalism, and racism.[55] According to Icke, the Aryans, like their reptilian forebearers, can also shape-shift, and have been Sumerian kings, Egyptian pharaohs, and, more recently, American presidents and British prime ministers, including George Washington and George W. Bush, and the Queen Mother herself, who was “seriously reptilian.”[56]

Icke took his both his focus on extraterrestrials and the Protocols of Zion from Behold a Pale Horse (1991) by William Cooper, who was associated with the American militia movement. In the Robots’ Rebellion, Icke refers repeatedly to the Protocols, claiming they were not the work of the Jews, but of Zionists, and calling them the “Illuminati protocols,” and defining Illuminati as the “Brotherhood elite at the top of the pyramid of secret societies world-wide.” Icke’s endorsement of the Protocols, in The Robots’ Rebellion and And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995) led his publisher to stop handling his books, which have been self-published since then.[57]

Spotlight

A crowd of over 4,000 people filled the Gospel Tabernacle in Fort Wayne, Ind., to hear Col. Charles Lindbergh address a rally of the America First Committee on October 3, 1941.

According to Nicholas Goodrick-Clark, author of Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, “it is clear from Icke’s book that he is a transmitter of this information rather than its originator. …Who is then guiding Icke and his New Age following toward the beliefs of the millenarian-conspiracy cults?”[58] He remarks that recent investigations by Matthew Kalman and John Murray of Open Eye magazine suggest that far-right and neo-Nazi groups are exploiting Icke to penetrate the Green and New Age movements.

Political Research Associates has described Icke’s politics as “a mishmash of most of the dominant themes of contemporary neofascism, mixed in with a smattering of topics culled from the U.S. militia movement.”[59] Icke endorses or recommends antisemitic and far-right publications such as Spotlight and On Target.[60] Spotlight was founded by Willis Carto (1926 – 2015), who was associated with Merwin K. Hart, one of the original founder of the America First Committee (AFC).[61] The patriot movement is considered to have evolved from the John Birch Society and its opposition to communism, the United Nations and the civil rights movement, while an insurgent wing has been traced in origins to the Liberty Lobby, founded by Carto in 1958, with promotion of themes of White supremacy and anti-Semitism.[62]

The Liberty Lobby was run by a steering committee which included ASC members General Charles A. Willoughby of the the Shickshinny Knights, John Birch Society members Major General Edwin Walker and Robert J. Morris, and Senator Strom Thurmond.[63] On the Liberty Lobby’s policy board were Joseph P. Kamp, the founder of the Constitutional Education League, Tyler Kent who was imprisoned in the Tower of London during World War II for sharing information with the enemy while a member of the American embassy staff, R.G. Johnson author of Patriots of Northern Arkansas, Lt. Col. Frederick A. Kibbe the founder for the Florida Minutemen, Archibald E. Roberts who served as the information officer for General Walker and Lt. Gen George E. Stratemeyer.[64] Stratemeyer was a member of the Military Affairs Committee of the Shickshinny Knights.[65]

Carto eventually became an adherent of Christian Identity, a racist and white supremacist interpretation of Christianity.[66] Christian Identity, which traces its origins to British-Israelism and the pre-Adamite hypothesis first proposed by La Peyrère—Menasseh ben Israel’s co-conspirator—offers a racist interpretation of Christianity where in some cases non-whites are regarded to not have souls.[67] British-Israelism, which gained influence in Britain during the nineteenth century, before being imported to the United States, teaches that many white Europeans are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel and God’s Chosen People, whereas modern Jews are Khazars and impostors.[68] By the 1960s, when Christian Identity was established as an important influence on the extreme right, the Khazar ancestry of the Jews was firmly believed.

When ASC-connected Roger Pearson established himself in the United States in the 1960s, he worked together with Carto in contributing to publications of white supremacist and anti-Semitic literature, such as Western Destiny, a Liberty Lobby publication. Pearson, a notorious racialist, was a close associate Wickliffe Draper, founder of the Pioneer Fund, which supported most of Pearson’s publishing ventures.[69] In the late 1950s, Pearson founded the Northern League as an organization that recruited ex-officers of the SS and promoted Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and Neo-Nazi racial ideology.[70]

In 1961, Pearson founded Mankind Quarterly along with Robert Gayre, Henry Garrett, Corrado Gini, Luigi Gedda, Reginald Ruggles Gates and Nazi doctor Otmar von Verschuer, former director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, whose students included Joseph Mengele.[71] Mankind Quarterly was published by the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), founded in Scotland in 1959, whose principal benefactor was Wickliffe Draper, founder of the Pioneer Fund. The American branch of the IAAEE was founded by Lord Malcolm Douglas, the brother of the host of Rudolph Hess on his secret flight to Scotland in 1941. Hess sought to meet with the British aristocratic circles known as the Cliveden Set, who were sympathetic to Hitler. When Douglas and his wife Lady Douglas came to the US, he helped establish a branch of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, a racist network based in Scotland.[72] Nelson Bunker Hunt, his brother William Herbert Hunt and Senator Jesse Helms, who also belonged to the Order of Saint Lazarus, were also members of the IAAEE.[73]

From the beginning, Northern League and Mankind Quarterly were allied with GRECE and Nouvelle Ecole.[74] GRECE, the Groupement de recherche et d’études pour la civilisation européenne (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”), the leading organization of the French Nouvelle Droite, was founded by de Alain de Benoist and others who belonged to the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), an an umbrella group for neo-Nazi organisations across the globe, founded in 1962 by George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party.[75] Some of the prominent names that have collaborated with GRECE include Arthur Koestler, Hans Eysenck, Konrad Lorenz, Mircea Eliade, Jeune Europe founder Jean-Francois Thiriart, Thierry Maulnier and Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange. Koestler had been an active agent of the CIA, working closely with Bill Donavan and later Allen Dulles, and a core founder of the CIA-front, the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). In 1976, Koestler published The Thirteenth Tribe, to prove that the bulk of Eastern European Jews were descended from the Khazars. Although Koestler apparently wrote the book with the hope that he could demolish the racial basis of anti-Semitism, the book was widely used by anti-Semites who attempted to demonstrate that the European Jews were imposters.[76]

GRECE member Raymond Abellio (1907 – 1986) was regarded as the “Gnostic” inspiration of the Nouvelle Droite.[77] Abellio was the pseudonym of French writer Georges Soulès, who was also the leader of the synarchist Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR), which grew out of the fascist Cagoule.[78] According to Guy Patton, author of Masters of Deception, Abellio and his protégé French occult author Jean Parvulesco (1929 – 2010), were part of a network that tried to create a New Europe, ruled by a priest-king, whereby they exploited various modern myths, like the Priory of Sion, which they exploited to exert their influence and for money and power.[79]

Abellio was also a friend of Antoine Pinay, one of the original founding members of the Bilderberg Group and of Le Cercle.[80] With ties to the Bilderberg Group, the Knights of Malta, Opus Dei and all the world’s leading intelligence organizations, Le Cercle served as the umbrella organization of the Fascist International, composed of numerous neo-Nazi organizations around the world. Le Cercle was co-founded in 1952-53 by Bildeberger Antoine Pinay, SDECE and BND agent Jean Violet, and Otto von Habsburg, a Knight of Malta and also co-founder of the Pan-European Union (PEU), with Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, which gave birth to the European Union. Le Cercle was one of the primary organizations behind the CIA’s Operation Gladio in Italy, which coordinated with fascist terrorists to carry out acts of terror that would be blamed on the communists.[81]

In 1978, Pearson became the World Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), a right-wing organization with extensive ties to the CIA and Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. The WACL emerged in 1966, when the Asian People’s Anti-Communist League (APACL), established in South Korea in 1954, merged with another fascist organization, the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations (ABN), a co-ordinating center for anti-Communist émigré political organizations from Soviet and other socialist countries.[82] The ABN took its current name in 1946 and claims direct descent from the Committee of Subjugated Nations, which was formed in 1943 by Hitler’s allies, including the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), founded by Stepan Bandera (1909 – 1959), and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

The OUN split into two organizations: the less militant OUN-M, and the more extremist group of Stepan Bandera, known as OUN-B, a clandestine group financed in part by German intelligence. After the start of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1940, the OUN-B in the person of Yaroslav Stetsko (1912 – 1986) declared a short-lived Ukrainian Government under the control of Nazi Germany, and pledged to fight as an ally for Hitler’s “New Order.” Supported by the Nazis, the OUN-B formed Ukrainian death-squads which carried out pogroms and massacres. Nevertheless, during the Cold War western intelligence agencies, including the CIA, covertly supported the OUN.[83]

Pearson also associated with the Philadelphia Society, established in 1964 by Henry Regnery along with William F. Buckley, and to which belonged many members who have exercised considerable influence over the development of the neoconservative movement in the United States. Also contributing to its founding were M. Stanton Evans and Milton Friedman. Former Presidents of the Society include Edwin Meese, Midge Decter and George H. Nash. Philadelphia Society meetings attracted hardline conservatives and neoconservatives such as Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, William Casey, Richard V. Allen, Richard Pipes, Ernest W. Lefever and Frank Shakespeare. Notable speakers at past meetings of the Society have included Vladimir Bukovsky, Friedrich von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, George J. Stigler, George Gilder, Victor Davis Hanson, Eric Voegelin and Paul Ryan.

When Joseph Coors—of the Coors beer empire and a supporter of the John Birch Society—established the Heritage Foundation in 1973, he had chosen Pearson as co-editor of the foundation’s publication Policy Review. The Heritage Foundation is part of a network of right-wing and neoliberal think tanks funded by charitable foundations and known CIA fronts, who in turn are funded primarily by ExxonMobil.[84] These included a number of other Rockefeller-affiliated foundations like the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation and John M. Olin Foundation, who are also responsible for funding the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. To this day, AEI’s board is composed of top leaders from major business and financial firms.[85] John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in their controversial bestseller, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, list the AEI as a principal aspect of America’s powerful Zionist lobby, which is dominated by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the US.

The Heritage foundation was founded by Knight of Malta Paul Weyrich, who worked closely with Franz Joseph Strauss, Bavarian head of state, a longstanding fixture of Le Cercle and a very close friend and associate of Third Reich banker Hermann Abs. Strauss was Chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), which is represented in a common faction with Adenauer’s CDU, called CDU/CSU. In 1953, Strauss became Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Adenauer’s second cabinet. According to T.H. Tetens, the British press once referred to Strauss as “the most dangerous man in Europe.”[86] As head of the state government of Bavaria, Strauss saw to it that funding was provided to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which formed the ABN. When Strauss came to the United States in the early 1970’s, Weyrich and Strauss’ Washington representative, Armin K. Haas, planned his schedule, including Capitol Hill appointments. Joseph Coors also helped Haas make new political contacts in Congress.[87]

As detailed by Russ Bellant in The Coors Connection, Jesse Helms’ political operative Tom Ellis formed the Leadership Coalition for Freedom Through Truth in 1987 with funding from the Pioneer Fund. Its board included Richard Schoff, a North Carolina businessman, who was a generous funder of the KKK.[88] Ellis was a member of The Conservative Caucus (TCC), which according to Bellant, “is among the most radical of reactionary groups in the US.” The TCC was funded by Coors and headed by Joseph Phillips. The Caucus created the Citizens Cabinet Organization Committee, which included Heritage president Frank Walton, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie and a number of leading members of the John Birch Society, including its president Larry McDonald.[89] The TCC also shared members with the United Council for World Freedom of Secret Team member Major General John K. Singlaub, the American branch of the WACL, financially supported by Joseph Coors. USCWF and the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund, another Coor’s cause, helped fund the Nicaraguan contras.[90]

The Tower Commission revealed that also part of the Iran-Contra funding network was the Western Goals Foundation, founded by J. Peter Grace in 1979 and John Singlaub, and sponsored by Henry Regnery and Nelson Bunker Hunt, son of H.L Hunt.[91] Western Goals was also associated to Reinhard Gehlen, with whom they shared a connection with the Order of the Knights of Malta (SMOM). J. Peter Grace was also chairman of the Knights of Malta in the United States, as well as belonging to the CFR, and key figure in in Operation Paperclip.[92] Grace’s company, W. R. Grace & Company, was founded by Peter’s grandfather, William Grace, who was a close associate of George de Mohrenschildt. After the end of World War II, de Mohrenschildt moved to Venezuela where he worked for Pantepec Oil, a company with abundant connections with the newly created CIA, and owned by the family of SMOM and Skull and Bones member, William F. Buckley.

Roy Cohn also became a principal figure in its intelligence gathering operation the Western Goals Foundation. Like the Safari Club created with the Saudis, Western Goals was set up to side-step restrictions imposed after the Watergate and COINTELPRO revelations. As a consequence, intelligence files passed into the hands of “retired” officers and their most trusted operatives. Many of these officers, like John Rees and Congressman Larry McDonald, were members of the WACL, the John Birch Society and similar organizations, and joined Singlaub in forming the Western Goals Foundation in 1979. Western Goals acquired a reputation of acting as a “clearinghouse” for some police departments whose intelligence-collecting functions were restricted by laws such as the Freedom of Information Act.[93]

In 1979, Paul Weyrich, Paul Dolan, Richard Viguerie and Howard Phillips persuaded rising televangelist Jerry Falwell to form the Moral Majority in 1979, signaling the birth of the Christian Right.[94] Falwell was a close ally of the ASC, and part of the ASC’s Peace Through Strength campaign in 1983, along with ASC president John Fisher and General J. Milnor Roberts. Falwell’s Religious Council of 56 included General Daniel O. Graham and Clay Claiborne of the ASC, Larry McDonald of Western Goals and Nelson Bunker Hunt. Fisher was described by the Religious Roundtable as a “close friend,” as was Joseph Coors, who served on the board of the American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) through the 1980s.[95]

Viguerie was also a member of the George Town Club, which was the base of Edwin Wilson’s pedophile and blackmail operation.[96] During Koreagate, Viguerie had been involved with South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park and the Korean CIA. In 1979, shortly after he retired from the CIA, Ted Schackley’s associate Tom Clines moved the offices of EATSCO to 7777 Leesburg Pike, as tenants of Viguerie. “The reality is that 7777 Leesburg Pike became the headquarters for the private CIA,” said former Cappucci employee Mike Pilgrim.[97] The George Town Club was founded by Tongsun Park with high-powered Washington lobbyist, Robert Keith Gray, whom John DeCamp asserted was a specialist in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA. Together with ASC strategy board member General Robert Richardson, Gray also served on the board of Consultants International, one of Wilson’s front companies.[98] Gray’s personal secret that made them vulnerable to requests from the intelligence community, it was a secret history of homosexuality.[99] Gray was investigated in 1982 by a House Ethics Committee concerning allegations of “using drugs and sexual activity to lobby Congressman.”[100]

Gray was reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn.[101] Cohn admitted to NYPD detective James Rothstein that he was part of an elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes, carried out as part of an anticommunist crusade. According to Rothstein, “Cohn’s job was to run the little boys. Say you had an admiral, a general, a congressman, who did not want to go along with the program. Cohn’s job was to set them up, then they would go along. Cohn told me that himself.”[102]

Maury Terry, author of The Ultimate Evil, linked Cohn to the Son of Sam serial killer. Terry gathered compelling evidence that the cult behind the Son of Sam crimes was the satanic group known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment which he also implicated in the Charles Manson murders. Terry portrayed The Process as being the major player behind a vast Satanic underground network that dealt in pornography, drugs, and ritual murder. According to Berkowitz, The Process provided children for sex at parties held by wealthy people in Westchester, Manhattan, Connecticut, and Long Island. Berkowitz informed Terry that one of these parties were held at Cohn’s house in Connecticut. Additionally, two further witnesses maintained that occasionally present at these parties were a Yonkers judge, at least two Westchester County politicians, a high-ranking New York state politician, a celebrated but later-murdered physician, a Nobel Prize-winning doctor, and two aides to then-mayor of New York City Abraham Beame.[103]

Gray was the chairman and CEO of Hill & Knowlton, one of the two biggest public relations firms in the world, with such blue-chip clients such as AT&T, IBM, Xerox, and DuPont. CBS’s 60 Minutes has called Hill & Knowlton. Notable clients of Gray & Company, which Gray established in 1981 after leaving Hill & Knowlton, included Saudi billionaire and Iran-Contra arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the government of Haiti under Duvalier, American, the Teamsters Union, and Reverend Moon. Gray also joined the board of the board of BCCI after its acquisition of First American Bank. According to an affidavit filed by Daniel Sheehan for the Christic Institute, when Edwin Meese, Vice President Bush, CIA director Bill Casey, national security adviser Robert McFarlane, and Oliver North were devising a strategy to circumvent Congress to arm the Contras, they turned to Gray & Company.[104]

Pearson was forced to leave Heritage after the Washington Post exposed the racist and fascist orientation of the WACL. Pearson was criticized for the presence in the WACL of neo-Nazis, war criminals, and people linked to death squads and assassinations.[105] According to William H. Tucker, he “used this opportunity to fill the WACL with European Nazis—ex-officials of the Third Reich and Nazi collaborators from other countries during the war as well as new adherents to the cause—in what one journalist called ‘one of the greatest fascist blocs in postwar Europe.’”[106] In that same year, Pearson hosted the 11th annual conference of the WCAL, which included representatives of the Gladio-linked Italian Social Movement (MSI), the Liberty Lobby and the Nouvelle Ecole.[107] Pearson’s connection with other organizations continued, and as late as 1986 Covert Action criticized his continued association with James Jesus Angleton, General Robert C. Richardson and other American Security Council members.[108]

The US chapter of WACL, the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF), was founded in 1981 by Singlaub. Singlaub, along with John Birch society members like Cleon Skousen and J. Peter Grace were also members of the Council for National Policy (CNP). Among CNP’s founding members were: Tim LaHaye, then the head of the Moral Majority, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Joseph Coors and Paul Weyrich. Members of the CNP have also included Rev. Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Senator Trent Lott, former United States Attorneys General Ed Meese and John Ashcroft, gun-rights activist Larry Pratt, Col. Oliver North and philanthropist Else Prince, mother of Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA. CNP members have supported legislation proposed by the Church of Scientology, and John Singlaub is also a member of the national policy board of the American Freedom Coalition, a political organization with extensive ties to the Unification Church.

On Target

Julian Amery (1919 – 1996), member of the Conservative Monday Club, president of Le Cercle, and son of Leo Amery, who was designated by Lord Alfred Milner to succeed him in guiding the Round Table group, also helped draft the Balfour Declaration.

On Target is the magazine of the white supremacist group, the “anti-semitic and white supremacist” British League of Rights, an offshoot of the Australian League of Rights founded in 1971. In the early 1970s, the British League came under the direction of Don Martin, a former member of the Australian Young Liberals. The General Secretary of the British League was Conservative Monday Club member Lady Jane Birdwood (1913 – 2000). Born Joan Pollock Graham, Birdwood was a far-right political activist in the United Kingdom who took part in a number of movements, and was described as the “largest individual distributor of racist and antisemitic material” in Britain.[109] Through her work with the Association of Ukrainians, she came into contact with such groups as the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and befriended OUN leader Yaroslav Stetsko.[110]

The Conservative Monday Club had links to Le Cercle president Brian Crozier, who created his intelligence network The 61 with funding from both the CIA and the Heritage Foundation.[111] According to David Teacher, the “co-organisers” of the Cercle were “dissident veterans of the Anglo-American intelligence community – rogue agents”: Ted Shackley; Nicholas Elliott, ex-senior man in MI6 whose close friends included James Jesus Angleton, Kim Philby and Miles Copeland; Donald Jameson a veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations; and the leader of the group, Brian Crozier, a British intelligence agent and journalist who succeeded Jean Violet as chairman of Le Cercle in 1980.[112]

Crozier’s friend Frank Barnett of the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) persuaded Richard Mellon Scaife, who funded the Heritage Foundation, to also fund a London-based CIA propaganda operation called Forum World Features (FWF). In 1965, the CIA decided to use the CCF to create a new propaganda outlet, the FWF, chaired by Crozier, which would become one of the CIA’s main covert propaganda outlets. Initial control of FWF ran via two CIA officers, one of whom was CCF President Michael Josselson. The legal and financial infrastructure for FWF was provided by one of the CIA’s “quiet channels,” millionaire John Hay Whitney, former member of the OSS, former US Ambassador to Britain and future publisher of the International Herald Tribune.[113]

The Monday Club was set up within the Conservative party in 1961 to bring together defenders of South African Apartheid and White Rhodesia, in opposition to the decolonization and immigration policies of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. A member and later patron of the Conservative Monday Club was Julian Amery, prominent MP on the Conservative Right with a long history of extensive intelligence, who succeeded Brian Crozier as president of Le Cercle. Julian’s father Leo Amery, who was of Hungarian Jewish descent, and also an active Freemason,[114] was designated by Lord Alfred Milner to succeed him in guiding the Round Table group.[115] Leo Amery also helped draft the Balfour Declaration. Julian’s brother, John Amery, British Free Corps (BFC), a unit of the Waffen-SS made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany. John was eventually hanged for treason for his recruitment efforts and propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany.

Julian Amery attended the founding conference organized by Arthur Koestler in Berlin of the CIA-front, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and served on its International Steering Committee. At the time, Amery was also one of the leading members of the Central and Eastern Europe Commission of the European Movement.[116] Another Monday Club associate was Amery’s Private Secretary as Housing Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. Amery would also become a consultant to BCCI, which CIA assistant director Robert Gates once referred to jokingly as the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals.”[117] Julian was also a good friend of David Stirling, founder of the SAS, with whom he helped orchestrate British involvement in the North Yemen Civil War with Saudi funding.[118]

One of the Monday Club’s earliest members was Sir John Biggs-Davison, a Conservative MP who had served on the PEU Central Council with Otto von Habsburg and Florimond Damman, founder of the Academie Européenne des Sciences Politiques (AESP) funded by Carlo Pesenti, a close friend of Le Cercle founder Antoine Pinay. Also included was George Kennedy Young, a Deputy Chief of MI6 who was involved with the CIA’s Project Ajax, the coup against Mossadeq in Iran in 1953. Another early member was Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, later a Conservative MP from 1970 to 1974, who had founded the Foreign Affairs Circle, the British section of the WACL.[119]

By 1974, the British League of Rights became the British chapter of the WACL replacing Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s Foreign Affairs Circle, which claimed to have left due to the Anti-Communist League’s anti-semitism.[120] In 1975 the British League established an association with the Britons Publishing Company. Although not officially connected, the League of Rights had links to the neo-Nazi National Front and during the leadership of John Tyndall articles that appeared in League of Rights publications were regularly reprinted in Tyndall’s organ Spearhead.[121] Tyndall was an admirer of Sir Oswald Mosley, a devotee of Aleister Crowley and the founder of the British Union of Fascists.[122] Tyndall was a former deputy to Colin Jordan of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement in the early 1960s, and corresponded with Savitri Devi, renowned exponent of “esoteric hitlerlism” and a founding member of WUNS. In 1963, Tyndall eventually fell out with Jordan over Françoise Dior— the former wife of a French nobleman and the niece of the French fashion designer Christian Dior—who, though originally engaged to Tyndall, hastily married Jordan who had been released from prison before him, to avoid being expelled from Britain as an undesirable alien.

Nexus Magazine

Icke has been closely associated with antisemitic New Age periodicals such as Rainbow Ark and Nexus, which is financed by far-right activists and affiliated with the National Front.[123] In his book The Robots’ Rebellion (1994), Icke calls Nexus “incomparable” and “excellent.” Nexus’ range of topics cover “prophecies, UFOs, Big Brother, the unexplained, suppressed technology, hidden history and more.” Although formerly concerned primarily with Green issues and Third World causes, Nexus took up the subject of the U.S. Patriot movement under its new editor Duncan M. Roads.

In 1989, Roads visited Mouamar Gadaffi in Libya. According to Australian journalist David Greason, he is a close friend of Robert Pash, a supporter of Libya and the Australian contact for the Aryan Nations network in the late 1970s and distributed material of the Ku Klux Klan. Alan Myers, of Australia’s Green Left Weekly, said that Pash was also part of the Australian League of Rights.[124] In the late 1980s, Pash was the Australian distributor for Gadaffi’s Green Book, and was in contact with the National Front, acting as a conduit for their attempts to make political contacts with the Libyan regime. Among Pash’s other introductions to Libya is John Bennett, president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, and an associate of Holocaust denier David Irving and Willis Carto. Bennet serves on the editorial committee of Carto’s Journal of Historical Review.[125]

In the mid-1990, issues of Nexus have included the call by Linda Thompson, self-proclaimed “adjutant-general” of the American militias, for a march on Washington to arrest and try Congressmen for treason. Icke appeared at a 1994 Nexus conference in Amsterdam at which Thompson was billed as a star speaker. It was Thompson who produced the Waco video that influenced Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Nexus distributes the video, and even produced a special version for Europe.

Others influenced by Nexus’ pro-militia line were the leaders of the Gladio-connected Order of the Solar Temple, a UFO cult that claims to be based upon the ideals of the Knights Templar, and who referred to articles in the magazine just before they committed mass suicide in Switzerland on October 5, 1994.[126] The Solar Temple was founded in 1984 by Gladio-operative Luc Jouret with Joseph di Mambro, a member of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC), founded in 1915 by Harvey Spencer Lewis, derived from the Ordo Templi Orientis of Aleister Crowley, the godfather of twentieth-century Satanism.[127] The Solar Temple was officially recognized by Prince Rainier III of Monaco, member of the P2 Masonic lodge behind the Gladio operation, with his wife Princess Grace Kelly becoming a member.[128]

In 1981, Jouret had become acquainted with Julien Origas, founder of Renovated Order of the Temple (ORT).[129] Some reports have claimed that Origas was a Nazi SS member during WWII.[130] Origas also reconstructed the teachings his Renewed Order of the Temple (ORT) based on the I AM Religious Activity. Origas’ idea of creating the ORT was embraced by Raymond Bernard, Grand Master of AMORC and the organization’s leading figure in France in the 1970s. All but two of the purported Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion are also found on lists of alleged “Imperators” and “distinguished members” of AMORC, and most of the names found in the fictitious List of Priory of Sion Grand Masters originate from a document compiled by Raymond Bernard, a friend of Pierre Plantard, who fabricated the hoax.[131]

The ORT was closely associated with the Ordre Souverain du Temple Solaire (OSTS), which was founded at the chateau of Arginy in the Beaujolais region of France in 1952. OSTS’ origins date back to the so called “Arginy Renaissance.” In 1952, the same year that Puharich made contact with the Council of Nine, Breyer began to communicate with The Nine at Arginy, identifying them with the souls of the nine founding knights of the Knights Templar.[132] Breyer drew substantially on Alice Bailey’s ideas, and Di Mambro himself used Bailey’s Great Invocation to commence OTS ceremonies.[133] According to the Solar Temple, the star Sirius was the home of a number of Ascended Masters, also known as the Great White Brotherhood, who came to earth and inhabited Agartha.[134]

Origas was also a member the “L’Ordre Vert” (Green Order) and the Internationale Luciferienne (“Luciferian International”).[135] Andre Wautier, a French author and Theosophist, claimed that in 1945 members of the Thule Society and the Brotherhood Polaires founded a new Order, the Green Order, whose adherents honor Lucifer, Mithra, Kali, and Lilith.[136] On May 14, 1975, the representatives of the various Luciferian associations were present in Brussels, made a pact with Lug to prepare the advent of a “Luciferian International.”[137]

Nexus’ British agent, who, like the Rainbow Ark group, was at the launch of Icke’s book, unselfconsciously provided further shocking details of this growing anti-Semitic propaganda network. Sitting in Nexus’ UK office, he eagerly displayed his copy of the Protocols of Zion, as reported Matthew Kalman and John Murray, in a 1995 article for the New Statesman & Society, and spoke admiringly of David Irving. As he began to describe the “global conspiracy,” the authors explained, he claimed to have helped Icke with a chapter in his forthcoming book, which also called into question the facts of the holocaust.[138]

The editor of London-based New Age magazine Rainbow Ark has steered Icke toward meetings with militant US patriots, and recommended Bloomfield Books. The same editor has hinted at their manipulation of Icke, by suggesting Icke wasn’t “ready for this yet,” referring to a spoof document entitled Further Protocols, outlining plans of “secret Zionism” for the “Goyim.”[139] Rainbow Ark maintains an influential relationship with Icke, printing excerpts of his work and helping to organize his lectures and meetings. The magazine betrays a wide range of far-right links. In particular is Donald Martin, of the British League of Rights who has published in Spearhead, the magazine of John Tyndall, leader of the British National Party, who regards Martin as his ally in opposing immigration.[140]  In 2004, Tyndall joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol, written by David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In an attempt to overcome the divisiveness that had followed the death of William Pierce in 2002, Duke presented a unity proposal for peace within the movement. His proposal, now known as the New Orleans Protocol, pledged adherents to a pan-European outlook, recognizing national and ethnic allegiance, but stressing the value of all European peoples. The Protocol was signed by and sponsored by a number of white supremacist leaders and organizations, including Don Black and Willis Carto.

Aviary

Left to right: John B. Alexander, Permindex member Gordon Novel, and John’s wife Victoria.

Vallely’s MindWar article, co-authored with Michael Aquino, argued for the application of Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) and “psychotronics” at the national level both in the target country and at home. Their paper was inspired by an article written earlier in the year, titled “The New Mental Battlefield,” by John B. Alexander, one of the chief architects of the CIA’s remote viewing program known as Operation Stargate. Vallely and Aquino wrote:

Psychotronic research is in its infancy, but the U.S. Army already possesses an operational weapons systems designed to do what LTC Alexander would like ESP to do – except that this weapons system uses existing communications media. It seeks to map the minds of neutral and enemy individuals and then to change them in accordance with U.S. national interests. It does this on a wide scale, embracing military units, regions, nations, and blocs. In its present form it is called Psychological Operations (PSYOP).

Alexander and C.B. Scott Jones are members of what is called “the Aviary,” a group of intelligence and Department of Defense officers and scientists involved MILABS operations—black operations by rogue military-intelligence units who are said to stalk, harass, terrorize, kidnap, drug, gang-rape and mind-rape innocent civilians, using hypnotic mind-control programming to implant a false post-hypnotic “memory” that the episode was an “alien abduction.”[141] Each member of the Aviary bears a bird’s name. Alexander, the leader, is “Penguin” while Jones is “Falcon” and Hal Puthoff is “Owl”. Others include Ron Pandolphi (“Pelican”), who is a PhD in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA.

Alexander was director of the Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group (ATPWG), which also included United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso. SRI remote-viewer Hal Puthoff and Corso have both claimed that the ATPWG “operated at the highest levels of government.”[142] Corso was a former military intelligence officer under General Charles Willoughby, ASC member, Shickshinny Knight and Black Eagle Fund conspirator implicated in the JFK assassination.[143] In 1961, he became Chief of the Pentagon’s Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development. In this position, Corso claims to have supposedly been assigned to oversee the reverse engineering material recovered from crashed alien spacecraft, resulting in several technological breakthroughs, including accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, computer chips and Kevlar. With help from William J. Birnes, Corso published The Day After Roswell in 1997, with a forward from Strom Thurmond. Their book claims that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 and was recovered by the United States government who then sought to cover up the evidence. The book concludes with reproduction of information about Project Horizon, a 1950s US Army plan for bases on the moon.

Vallely has been close with former CIA director James Woolsey. According to Jack Sarfati, Woolsey was working in 2001-2012 with Steven Schwartz, a remote-viewer with links to the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).[144] Woolsey appears to be close to UFO cultist Joe Firmage, Catherine Austin Fitts, and John Petersen, who all belong to the Arlington Institute, non-profit think tank specializing in predictive modeling of future events, that is, futures studies.[145] Petersen was a naval flight officer in the United States Navy, and has worked at the National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. Firmage wrote an online book titled Project Kairos, which claimed that aliens had occasionally contributed to human scientific achievements, most recently in the 1947 Roswell crash. Fitts blew the whistle on the missing trillions at the Pentagon and collaborated with Michael Ruppert in exposing CIA drug trafficking.

In 1999, Joe Firmage, quit USWeb, the US$2 billion company he co-founded, to promote what he says could be “the most important news event in 2000 years,” humanity’s potential rendezvous with extraterrestrials.[146] Firmage produced a 600-page manifesto entitled The Truth, posted on the Internet, which contained documents from a source he called the “Deep Throat of Cyberspace,” which he claimed may shed new light on UFOs and the Roswell incident, including what purport to be memos on the subject from President Truman and scientists Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer.[147] Firmage also associated with John B. Alexander. There are also indications that it was his money that was used to finance the research of Robert and Ryan Wood on the Majestic 12 documents.[148]

And at Edgar Mitchell’s IONS, Firmage was offering presentations with Daniel Sheehan and John Mack, an American psychiatrist known for his interest in alien abduction.[149] Firmage provided a $1 million contribution to the State of the World Forum, convened in 1995 by Gorbachev, Sheehan and his best friend from Harvard Divinity School, Jim Garrison, a member of IONS and president of the Esalen Institute’s Soviet-American Exchange Program.[150] “Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government,” announced Garrison, “It’s inevitable.”[151] The Forum called for the transfer of all armaments to the UN, the initiation of global taxation, stricter population control programs, and the elimination of nationalism and national borders. Founding co-chairs included George Shultz, and Ted Turner, who brought in CNN to provide the forum’s initial global live broadcast with Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and George Bush. Jane Goodall joined as a co-chair in 1996. Financial contributions were provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Archer Daniel Midlands and NASDAQ. Participants included actor Michael Douglas, and New Age personalities like Richard Baker, Abbot of the Crestone Zen Center, Jean Houston and Ken Wilber.[152] David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Maurice Strong were among the participants in meetings.[153]

Fox News

Roy Cohn meeting with Rupert Murdoch and President Ronald Reagan at the White House

Fox’s founder, Knight of Malta Rupert Murdoch, has also been a member of the Cato Institute founded by the Koch brothers.[154] Murdoch has a long history of lending the weight of his media empire to the service of propaganda for CIA covert operations, beginning with the silent coup against the government of Cough Whitlam in 1975. Murdoch was also connected the activities of the Secret Team, particularly through its connections to the CIA’s Nugan Hand and the US Navy’s super-secret Task Force 157, which was organized by Henry Kissinger.[155] Although some records relating to Murdoch remain classified, several documents that have been released indicate that he and Richard Mellon Scaife were considered sources of financial and other support for President Ronald Reagan’s hard-line Central American policies, including the CIA’s covert war in Nicaragua.[156]

Murdoch was also close personal friends with Roy Cohn, who first introduced him to President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Cohn had one interest when he brought Murdoch and Reagan together, “and that was that at least one major publisher in this country… would become and remain pro-Reagan,” he wrote in a letter to senior White House aides in 1987. The letter noted that Murdoch then owned the “New York Post—over one million, third largest and largest afternoon; New York Magazine; Village Voice; San Antonio Express; Houston Ring papers; and now the Boston Herald; and internationally influential London Times, etc.” According to Cohn, “Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today.” Michael McManus, the Deputy Assistant to the President, responded to Cohn to share their “high regard” for Murdoch” and the appreciation they had for the “importance of what he is doing.”[157]

In 1994, Murdoch described a plan to Reed Hundt, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Bill Clinton, to launch Fox News as a radical new television network. Unlike the three established networks, who catered to the same centrist audience, Murdoch’s network would follow the model of the tabloids that he published in Australia and England. Hundt told Jane Mayer, “What he was really saying was that he was going after a working-class audience. He was going to carve out a base—what would become the Trump base.”[158] Hundt recalled the conversation. “This person’s made a huge mark in two other countries, and he had entered our country and was saying, ‘I’m going to break up the three-party oligopoly that has governed the most important medium of communication for politics and policy in this country since the Second World War.’ It was like a scene from ‘Faust.’ What came to mind was Mephistopheles.”[159]

It was Reagan’s initial FCC chairman Mark Fowler’ deregulation of the industry and approval of Murdoch’s acquisition of local TV stations that allowed him to form his fourth major network: Fox.[160] In the following decade, in 1996, Fox established the Fox News Channel, which Murdoch boasts that he launched as a counterbalance to the “liberal bias” of CNN. Murdoch hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as Fox News’ founding CEO. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani's first mayoral campaign. In 1987 and 1988, Ailes was credited along with Roger Stone’s associate, Southern Strategy pioneer and master “dirty tricks” politics, Lee Atwater, with guiding George H.W. Bush to victory in the Republican primaries and the later come-from-behind victory over Michael Dukakis.

Dark Genius, an Ailes biography by Kerwin Swint, traces the history of Fox News to Ailes’ involvement in a national conservative television news network, Television News Inc. (TVN), funded by Joseph Coors to counter the “liberal” media. TVN came into being around the same time as the Heritage Foundation, and was founded by Coors, Jack Wilson and Paul Weyrich. The project was designed to inject a far-right slant into local news broadcasts by providing news clips that stations could use without credit and for a fraction of the actual costs of production. Thus, Wilson explained, TVN would “gradually, subtly, slowly” inject “our philosophy in the news.”[161] The network was, in the words of a news director who quit in protest, a “propaganda machine.”[162] Swint has shown that such Fox News slogans and buzz phrases as “Fair and Balanced,” “We Report, You Decide,” and “We’re an alternative to the ‘liberal’ media” were derived from the mouths of TVN’s founders.[163]

Regnery Publishing

Alfred S. Regnery, the son of ASC member Henry Regnery, founder of Regnery Publishing

The rise of the conservative “alternative” news sources can be traced back to the founding of the newspaper Human Events in 1944, Regnery Publishing in 1947 and William F. Buckley Jr.’s National Review in 1955. But, according to Max Boot of the Washington Post, “it did not become a mass phenomenon until the debut of Rush Limbaugh’s national radio show, in 1988, followed in 1996 by the launch of the Fox News Channel and the Drudge Report.” Those remain three of the most popular outlets of the right, notes Boot, but they have been joined by radio hosts such as Mark Levin and Michael Savage, authors Ann Coulter and Dinesh D’Souza, and websites such as Breitbart, TheBlaze, Infowars and Newsmax.[164]

Alfred S. Regnery, the son of Henry Regnery, became president of Regnery Publishing from 1986 to 2003. Alfred has also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) and as trustee of the Philadelphia Society. In 1983, Edwin Meese asked Alfred to informally head the administration’s anti-pornography campaign, when he was in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This was despite the fact that in 1976, Alfred and his wife fabricated an incident which they reported to the police, claiming that his wife, who was eight months pregnant at the time, “had been raped by a white male and a black male and had been stabbed.” Shortly after the alleged assault, the police searched Regnery’s home and found a cache of pornography, including “several catalogues for various prophylactic devices and erotica.” The police also reported finding “a book with numerous color photos of various sexual gratification, including oral sex and placing of objects into the vagina,” a German sex magazine, and a copy of Penthouse. [165]  In the 2000s, Alfred left his post as president of Regnery Publishing to become the publisher of The American Spectator. Alfred was succeeded by Alex Novak, son of Robert Novak, infamous for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame.

One of Regnery’s publishing lines is the Politically Incorrect Guide (P.I.G.) series, which present conservative commentary of issues such as the American Civil War, the British empire, the Roman Catholic Church, Islam, immigration, and climate change. Regnery Publishing has had over 60 books reach the New York Times bestseller list. Regnery has also published Oliver North, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Robert Spencer, David Horowitz and Oliver Stone. Coulter was also published in Human Events, which had also published the works of Murray Rothbard, and other pioneers of the libertarian movement. Regular writers for Human Events included Robert Novak, Pat Buchanan, as well as Newt Gingrich, Paul Craig Roberts and Sean Hannity. Paul Craig Roberts has contributed columns to Willis Carto’s American Free Press (AFP), which continues in the spirit of the Liberty Lobby’s The Spotlight. The magazine has also run columns by Joe Sobran, James Traficant, and Ron Paul. Writers for the newspaper also include Michael Collins Piper and James P. Tucker, Jr., a longtime Spotlight reporter known for this coverage of the Bilderberg Group. AFP focuses on conspiracy theory, nationalist economics, and anti-Zionism. It continues to promote alternative theories to the 9-11 attacks and support presidential candidates favoring individual liberty.

However, Regnery has been in the habit of creating bestsellers by artificially boosting sales, a practice that is common among conservative booksellers. SarahPAC spent $63,000 to purchase Going Rogue, and according to a Federal Election Commission filing, America By Heart was offered to donors with a $100 contribution.[166] Mitt Romney boosted sales of his book by requiring various schools, think tanks, and institutions to buy thousands of copies in exchange for his speeches.[167] When Regnery published Mark Levin’s 2009 book, Liberty and Tyranny, the Senate Conservatives Fund PAC spent $427,000 to buy copies which they distributed to donors who gave them $25 or more to elect conservative candidates.[168] The Conservative Books Club gave away copies of Ann Coulter’s book Godless: The Church of Liberalism if you bought two other books.[169] Regnery donates books to nonprofit groups affiliated with Eagle Publishing, which also owns Regnery, and gives the books as incentives to subscribers to newsletters published by Eagle. Though Godless retails for $27.95, a free copy was available with a subscription to Human Events, which publishes Coulter’s articles.[170]

DisinfoWars

Together, this network cultivated bigotry through paranoia about “political correctness” and “liberal bias” in the mainstream media, to channel pent-up frustrations towards what they called the “establishment,” to denounce “Big Government” in order to advance neoliberal policies. This agenda culminated in the rise of the Tea Party, a movement bankrolled by the Koch brothers and popularized by Fox News.[171] According to Alex Jones, the Tea Party was started by him and Ron Paul supporters.[172] The Tea Party was mobilized by the notion of a conspiracy inspired by the writings of right-wing conspiracy authors like Eustace Mullins, who was a guest on Alex Jones’ radio show InfoWars.

Jones calls himself a paleoconservative, whose early sources were the Patriot Movement, John Birch Society and the CNP. In an interview with Joel Skousen, nephew of conservative author and commentator W. Cleon Skousen of the John Birch Society, Jones claimed, “There’s a left-wing CFR-funded conspiracy theory that says some group called the CNP runs everything. It’s a total diversion… Absolutely, [Howard Phillips and Richard Viguerie are excellent CNP mentor]. And Howard Phillips has been fighting the New World Order forever.”[173] Although not openly advocating racism against Blacks, Jones has nevertheless employed the characteristic argument of the Klan, that political correctness denies Whites the right to “defend” their own rights and their “culture.”[174]

Jones has actually admitted on multiple occasions that he comes from a CIA and army special forces family: “Let me just tell you something. I grew up in Dallas, Texas, with my family doing things like, uh, helping take in East German defectors, okay? Whenever I go to a family reunion, half of the people in the room are former or retired CIA. And do you know what they tell me? They tell me I’m dead on, a hundred percent absolutely right.”[175] Jones claims that he’s often asked by recently retired generals, or former special forces colonels, or current Delta Force people—some of them have been on his show—they ask what intelligence agency he’s with. While his answer is consistently no, Jones explains: “On the other hand, I do have branches of different agencies actually trying to couple with what we’re doing to resist the globalists. And I’m not working with some agency in an official capacity taking orders. It doesn’t work like that. It’s just people that also wanna resist this. It’s like V for Vendatta where everybody doesn’t need to get orders. They’ll just show up at the same time.”[176]

Alex Jones’ films Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement and New World Order have been produced by Disinformation Company. The bizarre irony is that, in a Discordian sense, Disinformation seems to produce just that: disinformation. Richard Metzger, who is inspired by Aleister Crowley, and who maintains strong ties with the Discordians and chaos magicians, founded the Disinformation Company to be a “magick business,” and explained:

Magick—defined by Aleister Crowley as the art and science of causing change in conformity with will—has always been the vital core of all of the projects we undertake at The Disinformation Company. Whether via our website, publishing activities or our TV series, the idea of being able to influence reality in some beneficial way is what drives our activities. I’ve always considered The Disinformation Company Ltd. and our various activities to constitute a very complex spell.[177]

In 2003, Metzger put together The Book of Lies, named after Crowley’s book of the same name. Subtitled The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, the book is basically an homage to William S. Burroughs, and an anthology of occultism, chaos magic and technopaganism that features almost the entire pantheon of its modern-day exponents, including Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, Hakim Bey, Gary Lachman, Mark Pesce, Genesis P-Orridge, Phil Hine, Erik Davis, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tracy Twyman, and T. Allen Greenfield. Michael Moynihan contributed an article titled, “Julius Evola’s Combat Manual for a Revolt Against the Modern World,” as well as an exclusive interview, “Anton LaVey: A Fireside Chat with the Black Pope.”

Ancient Aliens

Alex Jones, like David Icke, has been a frequent guest on Art Bell’s show on Coast to Coast AM, which featured the entire pantheon of disinformers connected with the intelligence community. Starting in 1997, Col. John B. Alexander became a key figure on Coast to Coast AM, which became widely popular for its discussion of the conspiracies, paranormal and UFOs. According to The Washington Post in its February 23, 1997, edition, Bell was at the time America’s highest-rated late-night radio talk show host, broadcast on 328 stations. According to The Oregonian in its June 22 edition of the same year, Coast to Coast AM with Bell was on 460 stations. At its initial peak in popularity, Coast to Coast AM was syndicated on more than 500 radio stations and claimed 15 million listeners nightly.

Since 1998, Coast to Coast AM has been controlled by Clear Channel Communications, founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs. Mays was a major financier of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation, presided by Brent Scowcroft. McCombs, in March 2011, together with Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former deputy director of the CIA and head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and the NSA, as well as John Ashcroft, took over Erik Prince’s Blackwater. McCombs succeeded Prince as chairman.[178]

The show featured the pantheon of denizens of Project Stargate, including Ed Dames, Richard C. Hoagland, Terence McKenna, Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, Dannion Brinkley, David John Oates, and Robert Bigelow. Philip Corso appeared with Alexander in 1997. Other guests associated with the CNP and John Birch Society include G. Edward Griffin, Charles R. Smith, CNP member Jerome Corsi, Jeffrey NyQuist, Joel Skousen, Malachi Martin, Father Nicholas Gruner and William Jasper. Gruner, who denounced the “New World Order” and its New Age “one-world religion,” has appeared in at least one John Birch Society film. Rama Coomaraswamy was invited in 2006. John Loftus was invited in 2005 and 2012. Catherine Austin Fitts has appeared dozens of times on the show. Frequent guests included Robert and Ryan Wood, whose research on MJ-12 documents was financed by Joe Firmage.[179] Well-known JFK researcher Mark Lane, who became involved in the Liberty Lobby. In 1978, Lane was evacuated from the Jonestown cult premises, along with CIA agent Richard Dwyer, just before the mass suicide began.[180] Dan Aykroyd was also a guest.

In January 2003, following Art Bell’s retirement, Noory took over as weeknight host of Coast to Coast AM. Noory has also appeared in the History Channel series Ancient Aliens and in Beyond Belief, a subscription-based online video series presented by gaia.com. Gaia, Inc., named after the New Age concept of “Gaia,” was formerly Gaiam, an American alternative media video streaming service and online community focusing on fringe-science and yoga. Gaiam was founded by Jirka Rysavy, a Czech immigrant who moved to Boulder in the 1980s. In 2016, Gaiam sold its interest in the yoga business to Sequential Brands Group for $167 million and rebranded itself as Gaia, where Rysavy remains the CEO. Considered the Netflix of New Age content, Gaia has a collection of more than 8,000 films streamed by 466,000 members in 180 countries.[181]

The Ancient Aliens series was produced by Kevin Burns and his company Prometheus Entertainment. In 2002, Prometheus Entertainment developed a revival of Playboy After Dark, a television show hosted by Hugh Hefner between 1969 and 1970. Four years later, Prometheus Entertainment in association with The History Channel and Lucasfilm, produced Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, that earned three Emmy Award nominations. The documentary focuses Star Wars’ relevance today and the history and ideas that inspired it, making connections to Greek mythology and the use of the model of the hero’s journey, as discussed in the book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell, who worked closely with Paul Mellon and who was a key figure at the Eranos conferences and then Esalen. The company also produced The Curse of Oak Island, as well as the reality TV series Kendra on Top, and other non-fiction series and specials. Kendra on Top follows the day-to-day life of former Playboy model and start of the The Girls Next Door, which focuses on the lives of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion.

“As with most of the field of fringe history,” explains Jason Covalito, “Gaia has racists in its ranks and bends toward white nationalist views of history.”[182] When David Wilcock, host on his massively popular show “Cosmic Disclosure” on Gaia, resigned from Gaia in 2018, a leaked copy of his resignation letter shared concerns that he wasn’t getting paid enough, and about the “Luciferian” beliefs that he alleged Gaia was trying to get him to promote. His complaint was focused on first episode of Gaia’s Ancient Civilizations, which he said, “is literally saying that God is Evil and Lucifer is God – who (ahem) also happens to be a reptilian alien. Seriously?” This is despite the fact that Wilcock also participate in an Ancient Aliens episode making similar points. The show, called “The Satan Conspiracy,” claimed that the Fallen Angels corrupted the human genome and embarked on a diabolical plot to control the world, but insists Satan a benefactor, a Promethean figure sharing his wisdom with humanity.

According The History Channel Ancient Aliens series was produced by Kevin Burns and his company Prometheus Entertainment. In 2002, Prometheus Entertainment developed a revival of Playboy After Dark, a television show hosted by Hugh Hefner between 1969 and 1970. Four years later, Prometheus Entertainment in association with The History Channel and Lucasfilm, produced Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, that earned three Emmy Award nominations. The documentary focuses Star Wars’ relevance today and the history and ideas that inspired it, making connections to Greek mythology and the use of Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey, as discussed in the book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. The company also produced The Curse of Oak Island, as well as the reality TV series Kendra on Top, and other non-fiction series and specials. Kendra on Top follows the day-to-day life of former Playboy model and start of the The Girls Next Door, which focuses on the lives of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion.to the episode’s narrator, “The churches created this evil monster out of Satan, perhaps even out of thin air, when in reality, Satan's entire mission was about bringing knowledge and wisdom to humanity, and in fact, caring about humanity, not seeking to destroy humankind.” The narrator also wonders about the ultimate significance of the Book of Revelation:

Extraterrestrial combat? Could the Bible’s Book of Revelation really be referring to a galactic war? One waged over the ultimate fate of mankind? If so, who or what is Satan? Is he a demon, the Devil, the personification of evil? Or was he, in fact, a benevolent extraterrestrial being? One who stole technology from alien beings in an effort to lead early man out of darkness and ignorance? If so, then why did Satan become a force for evil? Does he seek to punish mankind for siding with our Creator against him? Perhaps he is testing us, using alien technology to modify human behavior in ways we have yet to understand.

Patty Greer, an award-winning filmmaker focused on crop circles, was the subject of a lawsuit by Gaia, who claimed she was spreading false stories about the company’s Luciferian agenda. Members of the Gaia Employee Movement, often referred to as #GEM, frequently post on Glassdoor.com, where anonymous users have written that Gaia has been infiltrated by Satanists. When Gaia ambassador Sondra Sneed heard about the accusations, she turned to the channeled information for answers:

Well, this is a complex subject, because Lucifer is not who people think Lucifer is,” the voice called Source says through Sneed. “Lucifer is a guiding light in a great struggle between man and destiny. … In one sense, Gaia’s work is specifically to change the story so that the story gets told in as many ways as possible. If this is an agenda that is counter to human survival, there would have been those in the know who would have shut it down.[183]

Wilcock and Graham Hancock had a falling-out over the content of the show. In Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), without stating so explicitly, Hancock attempts to prove the historical accounts of Theosophy by attempting to prove that a universal cataclysm took place, presumably the sinking of Atlantis, and that numerous cultures of the ancient world report the occurrence of “white gods” (a.k.a. Aryans) who taught them the arts of civilization, the proof of which are the various enigmatic monuments around the world.

Similarly, the Ancient Civilizations episode quotes Sitchin-style French author Anton Parks that the “good” Sumerian god, Enki, was a Reptilian alien who was represented as the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Satan, he claims is actually a “friend” of humans, though the Jews made a “deliberate choice” to venerate instead the evil Sumerian god Enlil. The narrator concludes that a conspiracy deliberately advances Yahweh/Enlil as a false god to keep us under Enlil’s control. According to Graham Hancock, Hancock is quoted as saying, “That entity that we have been taught to call god and to worship is no such thing.”[184]

Center for Security Policy

According to John C. Haich, Dr. Richard Hoagland, an American author known for his conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars, is an agent of influence for the Center for Security Policy (CSP), where Paul E. Vallely serves as military committee chairman.[185] In his position as FOX News military analyst from 2001 to 2007, Vallely unwaveringly promoted the US wars of naked aggression against Iraq and provided the personal defense of Donald Rumsfeld in the media as well as initiated a cover-up of the Valerie Plame affair. Vallely has continued to serve in disinformation of all kinds. Vallely and Woolsey shared membership on the neoconservative CSP, whose activities are focused on exposing and researching perceived jihadist threats to the United States. The CSP, which uses the ASC’s motto “Peace Through Strength,” and which is funded by the Olin, Scaife, Carthage, Bradley, and a few other right-wing foundations.[186] The CSP was founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney, a member of the CNP, who worked for Richard Perle during the Reagan administration. Major weapons contractors such as Boeing, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Litton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Thiokol, and TRW have also provided financial support.[187] CSP Advisory Council includes Heritage Foundation founder Edwin Feulner, and neoconservatives Midge Decter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, Paul Wolfowitz and Daniel Pipes.[188] Also on the CSP Advisory Council is Knight of Malta Joseph E. Schmitz, a former executive of Blackwater, the infamous American private military firm founded by CNP member Erik Prince.

Vallely and Woolsey have also been associated with the Intelligence Summit, whose focus is on terrorism and jihad.[189] The Summit was founded in 2006 by John Loftus, former U.S. government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He began working for the US Department of Justice in 1977 and in 1979 joined their Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting and deporting Nazi war criminals in the US. Loftus is an author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret, Unholy trinity: how the Vatican's Nazi networks betrayed western intelligence to the Soviets, and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.

The Intelligence Summit is a powerful, secret organization of top intelligence officers from around the world. Several former CIA directors, former Mossad chiefs, former MI6 heads, former US Air Force Generals and other top intelligence officials are part of its leadership. The Chairman of the Intelligence Summit is a top secret person, whose identity is never revealed and his name withheld for security reasons. The list of speakers and board members includes Richard Perle and another notorious fabricator, Michael Ledeen.[190] The Advisory Council included James Woolsey, John Deutsch, another former CIA director, and Robert Spencer the director, Jihad Watch. In 2006, the Summit was exposed for ties to the Russian mafia through the Summit’s long-time financier Russian Zionist oligarch Michael Cherney, who has been repeatedly linked with Solntsevskaya.[191] In 2003, Cherney founded the Jerusalem Summit, attended by Richard Perle and Frank Gaffney, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2003, Gaffney wrote an article on alleged Muslim Brotherhood infiltration for FrontPage magazine, the media arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, established with funding from groups including the John M. Olin Foundation, the Bradley Foundation and the Scaife Foundation.[192] The center was founded by David Horowitz, whose works are published by Regnery Publishing. From 1956–75, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left and a close friend Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, but later rejected leftism and founded Students for Academic Freedom to oppose what he believed to be political correctness and leftist orientation in academia. Founded in 1988, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is one of the main organizations that “helped spread bigoted ideas into American life,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.[193] In 2014–2015, Horowitz provided $250,000 in funding to the Dutch right-wing nationalist Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders, who also inspired Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks.[194]

A fellow at the Freedom Center is Ben Shapiro, who was editor-at-large of Breitbart between 2012 and 2016, and serves as editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he founded, and hosts The Ben Shapiro Show.[195] The social network Telegram has been an online gathering point for supporters of the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” against Covid restrictions, for influencers like Shapiro, to collect funds for the protesters, while conservative media like Fox News in the US, and Rebel News and the Toronto Sun in Canada, have been serving as the protest’s media outlets.[196]

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has also supported Rebel News, often cast as Canada’s version of Breitbart, founded in 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley.[197] In 1994, Levant enrolled in an internship arranged by the libertarian Koch Summer Fellow Program in Washington, DC. He worked for the Koch-funded Fraser Institute in 1995. In 1996, Levant worked with neoconservative David Frum to organize the “Winds of Change” conference in Calgary, an early attempt to encourage the merger of Reform Party of Canada and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Though unsuccessful, the conference opened the way for the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. Levant had supported Preston Manning’s United Alternative initiative in 1999, and was one of the leaders of the movement to create the Canadian Alliance as an attempt to broaden the party’s base.

Under Levant, who is Jewish, The Rebel has been accused of being a platform for the far-right anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad.[198] Former Sun News reporter Faith Goldy later joined the outlet. Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right men’s organization Proud Boys, was also a contributor. Many of The Rebel’s contributors announced their departure or were fired following Goldy’s prominent coverage of Unite the Right rally, and her interview with The Daily Stormer.

Alt-Right

Alt-right personality Lauren Southern—who worked for Rebel News until March 2017—her fiancée Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone, travelled to Russia in early June 2018 to meet with Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, known as “Putin’s Rasputin.” [199] Dugin was the true architect of the alt-right. Dugin’s objective is part of a plan based on his occult philosophy, of pitting Hyperborea, representing Russia and its Eurasian allies, against Atlantis, represented by America and Nato. Dugin, whose plan is to sow chaos wherever possible to undermine Western hegemony, saw an opportunity to exploit America’s volatile race divide. Where Dugin proposed various strategies for different countries in the Foundations of Geopolitics on how to combat American influence or to gain allies, he prescribed the need for the Russian special services and their allies “to provoke all forms of instability and separatism within the borders of the United States.”[200] Dugin adds:

It is especially important to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements–extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics…[201]

A protegée of Raymond Abellio’s pupil, Jean Parvulesco, Dugin was also a close friend of Gladio-operative Claudio Mutti, who joined GRECE member Jean-Francois Thiriart’s Young Europe. Mutti was also a close friend of Luc Jouret, who founded the cult of the Solar Temple.[202] Mutti, was also appointed Emir in the notorious Murabitun Movement, a crypt-Masonic and fascist organization founded by a Scottish convert to Islam named Ian Dallas, a.k.a. Sheikh Abdalqadir al-Murabit.[203] Dugin also works closely with Christian Bouchet, a high initiate of Memphis-Misraim, who claimed to be the head of the OTO in France.[204] Bouchet has been described as “one of the principal promoters of satanic thought in France.”[205] Dugin is also associated with Kerry Bolton, founder of the satanic Black Order, and the international distributor for the English-based Order of Nine Angles (O9A).

Inspired by his mentors Jean Parvulesco and Raymond Abellio, Dugin’s plan for accelerating the End Times expands on the Priory of Sion aspirations of the reign of Nostradamus’ Grand Monarch, to be fulfilled with the “Consecration of Russia” prophesied in the Third Secret of Fatima. Stephan Chalandon and Philip Coppens, detail what connects Abellio and Parvulesco’s synarchism, the Three Secrets of Fatima, and their own vision for the future of Russia, and describing them as New Agers building “An Age of Aquarius.”[206] Coppens is a Belgian author who focused on areas of fringe science and alternative history and connections between UFO cults and the extreme right. Coppens has been featured on Nexus, Atlantis Rising, and New Dawn magazines and appeared on many episodes of the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series. He served as the primary researcher for The Stargate Conspiracy, by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, a book about the CIA’s remote-viewing program Project Stargate.[207] Picknett and Prince are also authors of The Turin Shroud, The Templar Revelation, and The Sion Revelation, the last of which explores the connections of the Priory of Sion mythos and synarchism.

Bolton extolled Dugin’s prescription for a “multipolar” world in an article for New Dawn magazine, titled “Putin, Russia, & the Rise of a New Era.” New Dawn, which hails itself as “The World’s Most Unusual Magazine,” focuses on New Age topics, alternative medicines, extraterrestrials, and “alternative news and views on global trends and world affairs.” Their “About” page features endorsements from Philip K. Dick, Jose Argüelles, and Dugin himself who described the magazine as: “one of the best sources of realistic information on the state of things in our world as it nears its inevitable and predicted end.”[208] Referring to the prophecy of Nostradamus, Bolton notes that a commentator in New Dawn magazine wrote, “the rise of Putin had mystical implications that could impact on the world in an epochal way: Putin’s inauguration as Prime Minister on 9 August 1999 occurred during the week of the solar eclipse and the planetary alignment of the Grand Cross, ‘a highly auspicious astrological event… traditionally held to be the end of an epoch.’”[209]

Chalandon and Coppens’ article was published in the Occidental Quarterly, a white nationalist and self-described “pro-Western” publication sponsored by Henry Regnery’s nephew, William Regnery II. Effectively, the alt-right was again a creation of the Regnery family, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “a right-wing publishing dynasty that wields tremendous influence among both mainstream conservatives and far-right extremists.”[210]  In 2005, with Samuel T. Francis, William Regnery II founded the National Policy Institute (NPI), a think tank dedicated to “promot[ing] the American majority’s unique historical, cultural, and biological inheritance.”[211] The founding of the NPI was supported with a grant from the Pioneer Fund.[212]

Richard B. Spencer, the most popular figure in the alt-right movement, attracted the attention Regnery, who eventually took over the NPI. Until October 2016, Spencer was married to Canadian-Russian scholar Nina Kouprianova, who has translated into English some of the articles and books of Dugin, including The Fourth Political Theory and Martin Heidegger, which was published by Spencer’s Radix. Both she and Spencer have appeared on Russia Today, Putin’s propaganda arm, to defend Russian actions in Ukraine. Spencer calls Russia “the most powerful white power in the world” and admires Putin’s authoritarianism.[213] The preface to Dugin’s Martin Heidegger was written by Paul Gottfried. The Occidental Quarterly and Radix both publish articles by Kerry Bolton, founder of the satanic Black Order, and the international distributor for the English-based Order of Nine Angles (O9A). Although Jewish, Gottfried described Bolton’s Thinkers of the Right: Challenging Materialism as “one of the most enlightening studies of the interwar Right I’ve encountered in years.”[214]

Prominent far-right figures in attendance at the Unite the Right rally, that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017, included Spencer, Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys, entertainer Baked Alaska, former Libertarian Party candidate Augustus Invictus, David Duke, Identity Evropa leader Nathan Damigo, Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch, League of the South founder Michael Hill, Red Ice host Henrik Palmgren, The Rebel Media commentator Faith Goldy, Right Side Broadcasting Network host Nicholas Fuentes, YouTube personality James Allsup, former Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson, Right Stuff blogger Johnny Monoxide, Daily Stormer writer Robert “Azzmador” Ray, Daily Caller contributor and rally organizer Jason Kessler, and Radical Agenda host Christopher Cantwell.

Also attending Unite the Right rally was Swedish mining tycoon Daniel Friberg, founder of Arktos Media, which connects the American alt-right to their European counterparts.[215] Friberg is virtually unknown in his native Sweden, but is regarded by British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight as “one of the most influential figures in the global far right.”[216] The name “Arktos” recalls the title of Dugin’s esoteric publication, Arktogeya. Joscelyn Godwin wrote Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival, referring to the primeval homeland of the Aryans, identified with Thule and Agartha. Arktos is Ursa Major, the most prominent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere. According to Godwin, the four positions of the constellation, corresponding to the four seasons of the zodiac, are symbolized by the swastika.[217] The swastika is therefore also a symbol of the North Pole, which since the Ancient Mysteries has been worshipped as a phallic symbol, circled by the constellation Draco, or the Dragon, depicted by the lion-headed depiction of Mithras.

Searchlight identified a direct link between Friberg and Richard B. Spencer in the launch by the NPI and Arktos Media of a joint AltRight website in January 2017, where Dugin is a regular contributor.[218] Searchlight followed the progress of Putin’s subversion and alliance with numerous far-right political groups in the United Kingdom, and has concluded that those from whom the threat is most evident are the Traditional Britain Group (TBG), Generation Identity, the Nazi Forum groups, and Arktos Media.[219] TBG is a traditionalist radical conservative political organization in the United Kingdom. Its President is Lord Sudeley. The Vice President, Professor John Kersey, describes himself as a “radical traditionalist and paleolibertarians.”[220] With the death of its Patron, General Sir Walter Walker, the Western Goals Institute (WGI) in London was wound up, and its Vice-President, Gregory Lauder-Frost, founded the TBG in 2001 to continue much of the WGI’s work in the UK.[221] The WACL also had ties to the WGI, a conservative pressure group in Britain, which was founded in 1985 as an offshoot of the US Western Goals Foundation. Lauder-Frost was also a former officer of the Conservative Monday Club, which was connected to Le Cercle. Lauder-Frost who read Modern History at Oxford, holds a PhD on “The Last 50 Years of Imperial Russia,” is an established expert on genealogy, and was Publications Editor and Secretary-General of the international Monarchist League.[222]

The TBG are inspired by Joseph de Maistre, authors of the German Conservative Revolution, including Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger and Martin Heidegger, and fascist luminaries like Corneliu Codreanu, and Francis Parker-Yockey. Another more significant reference, cited very regularly on their webpage and throughout other material developed, is Julius Evola.[223] Searchlight has also exposed a connection between Lauder-Frost and a Russian think-tank called Katehon, whose supervisory board includes Leonid Reshetnikov, retired lieutenant-general of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and Alexander Dugin.[224] TBG also helped to promote a conference in 2013 that included Dugin, and featured Alain de Benoist as a keynote speaker, titled “The End Of The Present World Conference.” Oliver Lane, a TBG regular and close friend of Lauder-Frost, is a journalist specializing in terrorism and radicalization for Breitbart News.[225] The 2015 Annual Conference of the TGB included John Morgan, Editor-in-Chief of Arktos Books.

Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson

Also jumping on the Covid-19 conspiracy bandwagon is Fox host Tucker Carlson. But, instead of highlighting the real role of Bill Gates and his collusion with the WHO and Big Pharma, it’s an opportunity, as usual, to peddle neoliberal politics, by characterizing the imposed measures as part of a left-wing agenda to expand the powers of the government.[226] As of February 2017, Fox hit a ratings milestone in cable news by marking 15 years as the most-watched news channel, Nielsen data revealed. Fox currently has 13 of the top 15 programs in cable news in total viewers and seven out of the top ten programs in the 25-54 age demographic. The O’Reilly Factor dominated all categories as the number one program in cable news. Tucker Carlson Tonight was the number two and Sean Hannity was number three.[227]

Carlson was converted to Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions’ ideology, which he described as “nationalist.”[228] The Trump platform was well settled on long before Steve Bannon joined the campaign,” Roger Stone told Carlson. “And it appears that [White House policy adviser] Stephen Miller helped the president articulate it. But the agenda is Trump, the drive to win is Trump. The populist campaign is all Donald Trump. Just taking the title of chief strategist is a misnomer, at best,” said Stone.[229]

Miller grew up in a liberal-leaning Jewish family, and received his bachelor’s degree in 2007 from Duke University, and served as president of the Duke chapter of David Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper. While at Duke, Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard B. Spencer with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007, between the open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor Peter Laufer and journalist Peter Brimelow, the founder of VDARE, and fellow member of the H.L. Mencken Club with William Regnery and Jared Taylor.[230]

Carlson founded the Daily Caller in 2010 with Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney and a member of the CNP. Prior to that, Patel served as deputy of Scooter Libby. In October 2005, Libby from his positions in the Bush administration after he was indicted on five counts by a federal grand jury concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. He was subsequently convicted of four counts, making him the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since John Poindexter, the national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the Iran-Contra affair. President Donald Trump fully pardoned Libby on April 13, 2018.

Carlson initially floated the idea for The Daily Caller in 2009 at CPAC. He and Patel then officially announced its creation later that year at a Heritage Foundation gathering. The Daily Caller News Foundation receives funding from the Koch brothers as well as the Bradley Foundation.[231] A Southern Poverty Law Center report claimed in 2017 that “The Daily Caller Has A White Nationalist Problem.” The report stated that “the Daily Caller has not only published the work of white nationalists, but some of its writers have routinely whitewashed the Alt-Right, while one editor there is an associate of key Alt-Right figures. Two Daily Caller contributors, including a senior investigative reporter, were recently announced as speakers at the upcoming white nationalist H.L. Mencken Club conference organized by Paul Gottfried, a godfather of the Alt-Right.”[232]

Accelerationism

Bilderberger Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed Palantir is named after the crystal ball used by evil lord Sauron in The Lord of the Rings

CNP member Steve Bannon, also an admirer of Dugin, has referred to his publication Breitbart News as “the platform for the alt-right.”[233] Breitbart was heavily funded by CNP member Robert Mercer, an American computer scientist, a developer in early artificial intelligence, and co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund, who has collaborated with the Koch brothers.[234] Together, Bannon and Mercer founded Cambridge Analytica, which was used Facebook data to target with “fake news” propelled by Russian hackers to insight racial tensions in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the White House.[235] Documents seen by the Observer detail Cambridge Analytica was involved with many other right-leaning billionaires, including Rupert Murdoch.[236]

Assisting Cambridge Analytica in breaching Facebook data was the CIA-backed Palantir, founded by Bilderberger and PayPal founder Peter Thiel.[237] Thiel, who is openly gay, is a friend of Ann Coulter, who dedicated her new book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, to him. In a 2009 article for the Koch brothers’ Cato Institute, Thiel wrote of his commitment to “authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.”[238] After Trump’s victory, Thiel was named to the executive committee of the President-elect’s transition team. Many of Thiel’s employees have been calling him “the shadow president.”[239]

In September 2021, Tucker Carlson interviewed Silicon Valley entrepreneur Curtis Yarvin, creator of the Urbit computing platform, a proponent of doctrine of “neoreaction,” or NRx, an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary philosophy, also adopted by Thiel.[240] Linking up online with English author and philosopher Nick Land, Yarvin, writing under the nom de plume Mencius Moldbug, helped develop the doctrine of “neoreaction,” or NRx, essentially an argument that democracy had outlived its usefulness. The movement is also known as the Dark Enlightenment, a term coined by Land, in his essay of the same name. Land has been described as the “father” of accelerationism, a set of ideas which propose that capitalism and technological change should be drastically accelerated to create further radical social change.[241]

Drawing on the work the postmodernists Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-Francois Lyotard, Land argued that capitalist technological progress was transforming not just our societies, but the individual, who is becoming less important than the techno-capitalist system itself.[242] Accelerationism reflected a similar approach adopted by Satanists, particularly the Process Church and Charles Manson. As explained by Jean-Paul Bourré, in Les sectes Lucifériennes aujourd’hui (“The Luciferian Sects Today”), the Luciferian orders sometimes have different goals, but they all share in common the particular goal of wanting to trigger the apocalypse necessary for the final transformation: the acceleration of the events of the End Times, and the preparation of an occult elite destined for the priesthood of the Luciferian religion.[243]

Although the Process Church’s “processean” theology is considered unrelated to the process theology of Alfred North Whitehead—who influenced Deleuze—after its leader DeGrimston was removed by the Council of Masters as Teacher, many former members of the cult joined Deleuze in his leadership of the Anti-Oedipal movement of 1968.[244] Hinting at the connection, Land explained in an email to Vox, “Modernity has Capitalism (the self-escalating techno-commercial complex) as its motor. Our question was what ‘the process’ wants (i.e. spontaneously promotes) and what resistances it provokes.”[245]

Land was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998. At Warwick, he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit CCRU. After the CCRU split from Warwick in 1998, according to Andy Beckett, a journalist who chronicled the CCRU’s in The Guardian, Land and his remaining followers moved into a home in Leamington, where they were drawn to numerology, HP Lovecraft, and Aleister Crowley, part of an obsession with the occult that had flourished in the accelerationist ranks. “The CCRU became quasi-cultish, quasi-religious,” explained former member Robin Mackay. “I left before it descended into sheer madness.”[246]

Land has also “highly-recommended” the works of David Myatt’s fascist Satanist Order of Nine Angles (O9A), whose international distributor is adept Kerry Bolton, founder of the Black Order and associate of Alexander Dugin.[247] On his blog and on Twitter, Land describes Dugin as his “best enemy,” and also accepts Dugin’s appellation of “Atlanticist,” par of Dugin’s Land and Sea dichotomy that pits the West and NATO against his own ambition for his own anti-liberal Eurasian empire.  “We agree exactly about what the war is,” expands Land, “We’re just on opposite sides of it.”[248]

Nevertheless, the accelerationalist dialectic plays a role in inspiring both camps. Right-wing extremists and Neo-Nazis have been known to refer to an “acceleration” of racial conflict through violent means such as assassinations, murders, terrorist attacks, and societal collapse, in order to achieve the creation of a white ethnic state.[249] The inspiration for this racist variation of accelerationism is cited as American Nazi Party and National Socialist Liberation Front member and Charles Manson associate James Mason’s newsletter Siege, which paid tribute to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Tommasi, Charles Manson, and Savitri Devi.[250]

Although Siege stopped publishing in 1986, it attracted the attention of some musicians associated with the industrial noise and neofolk underground music scene, including Michael Moynihan and Boyd Rice, a friend of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.[251] Although Siege stopped publishing in 1986, Moynihan edited Mason’s newsletters into the book of the same name, published in 1993.[252] The hashtag #ReadSiege became popular on “alt-right” social media, especially as groups and influencers connected with the Neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi web forum Iron March promoted the text.[253]

Mason’s works were republished and popularized by the Iron March forum and its offshoot Atomwaffen Division, which has links to the O9A.[254] Iron March, was the primary organizational platform for a transnational neo-fascist accelerationist terrorist network whose ideology is based in large part on Evola.[255] Iron March began as the “International Third Positionist Federation” (ITPF) in 2010.[256] The forum was founded Alexander Slavros, an Uzbek immigrant to Russia whose real name is Alisher Mukhitdinov, who is similarly thought to be living in a district “close to the Kremlin.”[257] Slavros claimed in a direct message on Iron March that Alexander Dugin had once recruited him for the Global Revolutionary Alliance (GRA), which espouses an apocalyptic vision that humanity is at the verge of an end to “capitalism, resources, society, nations, peoples, knowledge, progress,” which it blames on the “global Western-centric world” and “the ruling class of globalism.”[258]

Members of Atomwaffen, as well as many other similar groups, became interested in the Base, founded by Rinaldo Nazzaro, who described himself as a “former CIA field intelligence officer.”[259] Reports have revealed that Nazzaro is an American who moved to Russia from New York in the late 2010s, and that he was once contracted with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and U.S. Special Forces.[260] The BBC reported that Nazzaro was an FBI analyst and a Pentagon contractor.[261] Vice News learned that Nazzaro was a Pentagon contractor who worked with Special Operations Command (SOCOM), among a group that briefed special forces officers on military targeting and counterterrorism efforts in the Middle East in 2014. “[I did] multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan over five years,” Nazzaro said in 2019.[262] However, according to US law enforcement and intelligence sources, Nazzaro is “working for Russia and operation a violent neo-Nazi, white supremacist organization directing violent terror attacks on US soil from St. Petersburg, Russia.”[263]

Alt-right personalyt Matthew Heimbach, another admirer of Dugin, used the Iron March forums to recruit for the Traditionalist Workers Party, which participated in the Unite the Right rally.[264] Prior to its shutdown in 2017, Iron March been linked to several acts of Neo-Nazi terrorism and violent militant groups such as the Nordic Resistance Movement, National Action, Azov Battalion, CasaPound, and Greece’s Golden Dawn, which has connections with Dugin. In addition to Azov, Atomwaffen has ties to O9A. Atomwaffen distributes the magazine Musta Kivi and sells the books of O9A and Kerry Bolton. Atomwaffen Division Finland “Siitoin Squadron” (AWDSS) was formed after the Finnish government banned the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) in 2019, following members of the underground group embracing accelerationism and occultism.[265] Representatives of the Suomen Vastarintaliike (“Finnish Resistance Movement”), the Finnish branch of the NRM, visited James Mason in the United States in 2019.[266]

Iron March forum and Atomwaffen Division, which since 2017 has been linked to eight killings in the US and several violent hate crimes, including assaults, rapes and multiple cases of kidnapping and torture.[267]  The network’s transition from activism to terrorism,” explains H.E. Upchurche, “was facilitated by the introduction of violent ritualistic initiation practiced derived from the writings of the Order of Nine Angles, which helped to habituate members to violence as well as to create a sense of shared membership in a militant elite.”[268] Since the 2010s, the political ideology and religious worldview of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), have increasingly influenced militant Neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi insurgent groups associated with right-wing extremist and White supremacist international networks, most notably the Iron March forum.[269]

The O9A encourages its members to adopt “insight roles” in anarchist, neo-Nazi, and Islamist groups in order to disrupt modern Western society.[270] According to Upchurch, it was most likely through the influence of Ryan Fleming that Iron March was introduced to the O9A ideology. Fleming subsequently went on to become a member of National Action. In early 2021, Fleming, who had previously been convicted of the sexual abuse of children, was jailed for unsupervised contact with children.[271] Atomwaffen Division was closely associated with the American O9A affiliate Tempel ov Blood. National Action was linked to the O9A affiliate Drakon Covenant in the UK. Antipodean Resistance in Australia was involved with Kerry Bolton’s Black Order and the Temple of THEM. From 2010 to 2019, Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch of Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current known variously as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current.[272]

The Iron March chat logs subsequently published by ProPublica revealed that there are around twenty Atomwaffen cells across the United States, and they also show members praising Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, and Norwegian mass murderer and white supremacist Anders Behring Breivik.[273] Eighteen-year-old Devon Arthurs, an Iron March user, killed his two roommates and fellow Atomwaffen members in May 2017. Police found neo-nazi literature, a photograph of McVeigh, and explosives in his home. Arthurs converted to Islam and described himself as a “Salafist National Socialist.” After he was arrested following a hostage situation, Arthurs was determined unfit to stand trial. In December 2019, several experts testified that Arthurs has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other conditions, experiences hallucinations and believes he can communicate with the dead.[274] In January 2018, Atomwaffen member Samuel Woodward was charged in Orange County, California, with the murder of Blaze Bernstein, an openly gay Jewish college student.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque massacre that killed 51 people and injured 49 others during Friday Prayer on March 15, 2019, embraced right-wing accelerationism in a section of his manifesto titled “Destabilization and Accelerationism: tactics.” Tarrant claims to have been the author of a 74-page manifesto titled The Great Replacement, a reference to the “Great Replacement” and “white genocide” conspiracy theories. Inspired by Tarrant and similar accelerationist ideas, John Timothy Earnest was responsible for the Escondido mosque fire at Dar-ul-Arqam Mosque in Escondido, California, in March 2019. On April 27, before being identified as a suspect, Earnest entered the nearby Chabad of Poway synagogue and opened fire, killing one and injuring three others. “I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto,” Crusius wrote before committing the El Paso Walmart shooting that killed 23 people and injured 23 others. “The Hispanic community was not my target before I read The Great Replacement.”[275]

[1] Steven Hassan. “What to Do About the QAnon and Those Ensnared in It? Interview with Travis View.” Freedom of Mind Resource Center (August 22, 2020). Retrieved from https://freedomofmind.com/what-to-do-about-the-qanon-and-those-ensnared-in-it-interview-with-travis-view/; Tristan Sturm & Tom Albrecht. “Constituent Covid-19 apocalypses: contagious conspiracism, 5G, and viral vaccinations.” Anthropology & Medicine 28, 1 (2021), pp. 122-139.

[2] Jim Hougan. Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA (New York: Random House, 1984). p. 120.; David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Four, Chapter 9: JFK Assassination; Chapter 11: The Golden Triangle; Volume Five, Chapter 2: The Secret Team & Chapter 3: The Reagan Doctrine.

[3] John DeCamp. The Franklin Coverup: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska (AWT, 1992), p. 179.

[4] “Americanuck Radio - 20191014.” Retrieved from https://www.spreaker.com/user/icrn/americanuck-radio-20191014

[5] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Three, Chapter 3: The Round Table & Chapter 14: The Brotherhood of Death.

[6] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Three, Chapter 11: Operation Trust & Chapter 13: The Aufbau.

[7] R.W. May. “Genetics and Subversion.” The Nation (May 14, 1960), 190: 421.

[8] Russ Bellant. The Coors Connection, (South End Press, 1988), p. 45.

[9] Brasol hearing, 32, FBI, File 100-15704, cited in Spence. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant.” p. 698.

[10] “This Fascist Racket.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (August 2, 1934).

[11] Richard Spence. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L’vovich Brasol, 1910-1960, Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the Blue Lamoo.” Journal of Antisemitism (Vol 4 Issue #2 2012)

[12] Spence. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant,” Part II, p. 700.

[13] A. E.Kahn & M. Sayers. The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia. 1st ed (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1946).

[14] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Four, Chapter 7: Red Scare.

[15] Yeadon & Hawkins. Nazi Hydra in America, p. 161.

[16] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Five, Chapter 13: Disclosure.

[17] Levenda. Unholy Alliance, p. 62.

[18] Christopher H. Partridge. UFO Religions (Routledge, 2003), p. 8–9.

[19] Gregory Bishop & Kenn Thomas. “Calling Occupants (The Giant Rock Conventions).” Fortean Times 118 (January 1999).

[20] Cited in Mehmet Sabeheddin. “Flying Saucers, Hidden Empire & the Secret of World Control.” New Dawn Special Issue Vol 6 No 5 (October 2012). Retrieved from https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/flying-saucers-hidden-empire-the-secret-of-world-control

[21] Turner. Power on the Right, p. 165.

[22] Editors’ Introduction to Chodorov’s Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov, compiled, edited, and with an Introduction by Charles H. Hamilton (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1980).

[23] Doherty. Radicals for Capitalism, p. 16.

[24] “Six Yale Societies Elect 90 Members.” New York Times (May 8, 1936).

[25] Alvin Felzenberg. “The Inside Story of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Crusade against the John Birch Society.” The Atlantic (June 20, 2017).

[26] Interhemispheric Resource Center, GroupWatch, Western Goals Foundation. Retrived from http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/wg.php; References: 5. Letter from Sean Steinbach and Dominik Diehl, May 22, 1987. 8. Elton Manzione, “The Private Spy Agency,” The National Reporter (Summer 1985).

[27] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Four, Chapter 9: JFK Assassination

[28] William Torbitt. NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996) p. 49.

[29] Brussell. “The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination.”

[30] Nicholas Gage. “Ex‐Head of Schenley Industries Is Linked to Crime ‘Consortium’.” New York Times (February 19, 1971). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/exhead-of-schenley-industries-is-linked-to-crime-consortium.html

[31] Nicholas Faith. The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006), p. 66.

[32] Ibid.

[33] Burton Hersh. Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America (Basic Books, 2008), p. 88.

[34] David D. Kirkpatrick. “The 2004 Campaign: The Conservatives: Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy,” New York Times (August 28, 2004).

[35] Jane Mayer. “The Secrets of Charles Koch’s Political Ascent.” Politico (January 18, 2016); Mark Ames. “Meet Charles Koch’s Brain.”

[36] Yeadon & Hawkins. Nazi Hydra in America, p. 80.

[37] “Obituary: Cordelia Scaife May / Reclusive Mellon heiress known for her generosity.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 27, 2005). Retrieved from http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2005/01/27/Obituary-Cordelia-Scaife-May-Reclusive-Mellon-heiress-known-for-her-generosity/stories/200501270185

[38] Lee & Shlain. Acid Dreams, p. 190.

[39] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao. Volume Three, Chapter 17: Eranos Conferences; Volume Four, Chapter 15: The Esalen Institute.

[40] Hans Thomas Hakl. Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (New York: Routledge, 2014), p. 106.

[41] Wouter J. Hanegraaff. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, (Boston, Massachusetts, US: Brill Academic Publishers, 1996), pp. 38–39.

[42] See Chapter 9: JFK Assassination; Chapter 13: Counterculture.

[43] See David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Four, Chapter 13: Counterculture.

[44] Anthony Summers. The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993).

[45] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao. Volume Four, Chapter 14: The Church of Satan.

[46] Chris White, David Icke Debunked, http://davidickedebunked.com/?page_id=13

[47] Ibid.

[48] David G. Robertson. “David Icke’s Reptilian Thesis and the Development of New Age Theodicy.” International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 4, 1 (2013), p. 33.

[49] David Livingstone. “Theosophical Sources of David Icke's Reptilian Theory.” (December 8, 2022). Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/theosophical-sources-of-david-ickes-repitillian-theory

[50] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao. Volume Two, Chapter 16: The Aryan Myth.

[51] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao. Volume Three, Chapter 20: Shangri-La (2021).

[52] David Livingstone. Black Terror White Soldiers (2013), p. 467.

[53] Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn. “The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke’s Alien Conspiracy Theory.” Utopian Studies, 16, 1 (Spring 2005), p. 51.

[54] Icke. Children of the Matrix, p. 251.

[55] Cited in Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn. “The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke’s Alien Conspiracy Theory.” Utopian Studies, 16, 1 (Spring 2005), p. 52.

[56] Icke. Children of the Matrix, p. 79; cited in Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn. “The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke’s Alien Conspiracy Theory.” Utopian Studies, 16, 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 45-74.

[57] Offley. “David Icke And The Politics Of Madness Where The New Age Meets The Third Reich.”

[58] Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun, p. 292.

[59] Will Offley. “David Icke And The Politics Of Madness Where The New Age Meets The Third Reich.” Political Research Associates (29 February 2000). Retrieved from http://www.publiceye.org/Icke/IckeBackgrounder.htm

[60] “From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi.” Institute for Social Ecology (January 1996). Retrieved http://social-ecology.org/wp/1996/01/left-green-perspectives-35/

[61] Foster & Epstein. Cross-Currents, p. 145.

[62] Stuart T. Wright. Patriots, politics, and the Oklahoma City bombing (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007). pp. 54–55; Matthew Lyons & Chip Berlet. Right-wing populism in America: too close for comfort (New York: Guilford Press, 2000). pp. 288–289.

[63] Constantine. Virtual Government, p. 11.

[64] Pearson. “Liberty Lobby Should be Scrutinized.”

[65] Coogan. Dreamer of the Day, pp. 606-608.

[66] “Willis Carto.” Southern Poverty Law Center (n.d). Retrieved from https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/willis-carto

[67] Chester L. Quarles. Christian Identity: The Aryan American Bloodline Religion (McFarland & Company. 2004) p. 68.

[68] Jeffrey Kaplan. Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right (McFarland & Company, 2000), p. 52.

[69] S.J. Rosenthal. “The Pioneer Fund Financier of Fascist Research.” American Behavioral Scientist, 1995, 39(1), pp. 44-61.

[70] W.H. Tucker. Closer Look at the Pioneer Fund: Response to Rushton (A. Alb. L. Rev., 2002), pp.161-3.

[71] Bellant. Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party, p. 46.

[72] Ibid.

[73] Ibid.

[74] M. Billig. Psychology, racism, and fascism. (Birmingham: A. F. & R./Searchlight, 1979).

[75] Nicola Lebourg. “The French Far Right in Russia’s Orbit.” Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (May 15, 2018).

[76] Michael Scammell. Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic (Random House, 2009), p. 546.

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[97] Trento. Prelude to Terror, p. 172.

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[104] Affidavit of Daniel P. Sheehan.

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[106] William H. Tucker. The Science and Politics of Racial Research (University of Illinois Press, 1996). p. 257.

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[113] Ibid., p. 37.

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[116] Teacher. Rogue Agents.

[117] Jane Hunter. Israeli Foreign Affairs.

[118] Teacher. Rogue Agents, p. 305.

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[120] Peter Barberis, John McHugh & Mike Tyldesley (editors). Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations (Pinter, 2000), p. 177.

[121] Michael Billig. A Social Psychological View of the National Front (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), p. 117.

[122] Levenda. Unholy Alliance, p. 116.

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[129] Introvigne. “Ordeal by Fire,” p. 25..

[130] Philip Coppens. “Knights of the Extreme Right.”

[131] “Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard.” Biblioteca Pleyades. Retrieved from https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_priorysion06.htm

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[133] George D. Chryssides. “Sources of Doctrine in the Solar Temple.” In The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death (ed.) James R. Lewis (Ashgate, 2006), p. 124.

[134] Ibid., p. 119.

[135] Marcel Roggemans. Geschiedenis Van de Occulte En Mystieke Broederschappen (Lulu.com, 2010), p. 236.

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[137] Jean-Paul Bourré. Les sectes Lucifériennes aujourd'hui (Belfond, 1978), p. 99.

[138] Ibid.

[139] Kalman & Murray. “New-age nazism.”

[140] Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun, p. 293.

[141] Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D. “Birds of a Feather No Longer: Policy Split Divides “Aviary” UFO-Secrecy Group.” Retrieved from http://www.drboylan.com/aviary2.html

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[143] Bevilaqua. JFK - The Final Solution, Kindle locations 159-164.

[144] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

[145] Ibid.

[146] “The Ex-CEO Files.” Wired (January 11, 1999). Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/1999/01/the-ex-ceo-files/

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[149] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

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[154] James Robert Compton. The Integrated News Spectacle: A Political Economy of Cultural Performance (Peter Lang, 2004), p. 204; Paul La Monica. Inside Rupert’s Brain (Peter Lang, 2009), p. 5; “Media Sources: Distinct Favorites Emerge on the Left and Right.” Pew Research Center (October 21, 2014).

[155] Joan Coxsedge, “Nugan Hand.” The Guardian: The Worker’s Daily. Issue #1765 (February 15, 2017).

[156] Robert Parry. “How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch.” Consortium News (January 28, 2015).

[157] Robert Parry. “How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch.” Consortium News (January 28, 2015).

[158] Jane Mayer. “The Making of the Fox News White House.” The New Yorker (March 11, 2019 Issue).

[159] Ibid.

[160] Lucia Graves. “Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch: inside the billionaire bromance.” The Guardian (June 16, 2017).

[161] Ibid.

[162] Ibid.

[163] Jack Shafer. “Fox News 1.0.” Slate (June 5, 2008).

[164] Max Boot. “Republicans are paying the price for their addiction to their own media.” Washington Post (October 6, 2016).

[165] Murray Waas. “Al Regnery’s Secret Life.” New Republic (June 22, 1986).

[166] “America By Fraud: Sarah Palin Buys Her Way On To NYT Bestseller List.” Politicus USA (December 2, 2010).

[167] Steve Benen. “A publishing mystery.” Washington Monthly (December 28, 2010).

[168] Oliver Willis. “Mark Levin Claims ‘No Groups Buy My Books’ As Conservative Group Buys His Book.” Media Matters (January 10, 2014).

[169] Sarah Ferguson. “CORRECTED: Ann Coulter: Plumping Her Sales Figures?” Village Voice ( JUNE 15, 2006).

[170] Nomad. “Cooking the Books: How the Conservative Best Seller Scam is a Free Market Hypocrisy.” Nomadic Politics (November 16, 2014).

[171] Associated Press. “Murdoch fund-raiser for Clinton creates buzz.” NBC News (May 12, 2006).

[172] Mabel Stephens. “Alex Jones Ron Paul founded the Tea party and the Koch brothers fund it.” YouTube (Sep 19, 2014).

[173] Joel V.D. Heijden. “Alex Jones of Infowars Admits to CIA and ‘Army Special Forces’ family; Supports Death Squads, Dictators, Drugs, Disinformation… And the CNP.” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (January 17, 2016).

[174] NWOTaser. “Alex Jones Rant: Shut-Up Racist, Shut-Up Nazi, Shut-Up Cracker.” YouTube (January 18, 2011).

[175] Joel V.D. Heijden. “Alex Jones of Infowars Admits to CIA and ‘Army Special Forces’ family; Supports Death Squads, Dictators, Drugs, Disinformation… And the CNP.” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (January 17, 2016). Retrieved from https://isgp-studies.com/alex-jones-of-infowars-is-cia-army-disinformation

[176] Ibid.

[177] Mark Presce. “The Executable Dreamtime,” Richard Metzger ed. Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult (Disinformation Books, 2008).

[178] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls.”

[179] Ibid.

[180] Ibid.

[181] Amanda Pampuro “Gaia Hits Filmmaker Patty Greer With an Old-School Weapon: a Lawsuit.” Westword (August 21, 2018). Retrieved from https://www.westword.com/news/gaia-hits-filmmaker-patty-greer-with-an-old-school-weapon-a-lawsuit-10684808

[182] Jason Covalito. “Friends of David Wilcock Say He Resigned from Gaia TV over Bad Pay, Poor Working Conditions, and Lucifer.” (October 7, 2013). Retrieved from https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/friends-of-david-wilcock-say-he-resigned-from-gaia-tv-over-bad-pay-poor-working-conditions-and-lucifer

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[184] Jason Covalito. “Friends of David Wilcock Say He Resigned from Gaia TV over Bad Pay, Poor Working Conditions, and Lucifer.” (October 7, 2013). Retrieved from https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/friends-of-david-wilcock-say-he-resigned-from-gaia-tv-over-bad-pay-poor-working-conditions-and-lucifer

[185] John C. Haich. “Do the Owls want to shut down Richard C. Hoagland?”

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[187] Michelle Ciarrocca & William D. Hartung. “Axis of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration’s Missile Defense Revival.” World Policy Institute (July 2002).

[188] 2001 Annual Report of the CSP.

[189] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

[190] Ron Jacobs. “Kenneth Timmerman’s Iranian ‘Democracy’ and the ‘Intelligence’ Summit.” MR Online (February 1, 2006).

[191] Ibid.

[192] “David Horowitz Freedom Center.” Islamophobia Network. Retrieved from https://islamophobianetwork.com/organization/david-horowitz-freedom-center/

[193] Chip Berlet. “Into the Mainstream.” SPLC (August 15, 2003). Retrieved from https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/mainstream

[194] Lee Fang. “California Nonprofit May Have Violated Tax Law By Donating to Anti-Muslim, Far-Right Dutch Candidate.” The Intercept (March 3, 2017).

[195]  Leily Rezvani. “Ben Shapiro to speak on campus after Stanford admin criticized his collaborator’s visit in May.” The Stanford Daily (October 18, 2019).

[196] C.J. Atkins. “Canada convoy protest a truckload of anti-vax and white supremacist BS.” People’s World (February 8, 2022). Retrieved from https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/canada-convoy-protest-a-truckload-of-anti-vax-and-white-supremacist-bs/

[197] Justin Ling. “Inside Rebel Media’s big-money anti-Islam crusade.” Vice News (August 22, 2017). Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjz73q/inside-rebel-medias-big-money-anti-islam-crusade

[198] Richard Warnica. “Inside Rebel Media.” National Post (2018).

[199] Casey Michel. “Why is this Pizzagate truther meeting with a Russian neo-fascist?” Think Progress (June 10, 2018).

[200] Aleksandr Dugin. Osnovy geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii (Moscow: Arktogeya, 1997), p. 248.

[201] Ibid., p. 367.

[202] Jim Keith. Mind-control, World Control (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997), p. 193.

[203] Othman Abu-Sahnun the Italian, “The Murabituns & Free Masonry,” Murabitun Files. [http://web.archive.org/web/20060906091722/http://murabitun.cyberummah.org/index.htm]

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[206] Stephan Chalandon & Philip Coppens. “Men of Mystery: Raymond Abellio & Jean Parvulesco – Their Vision of a New Europe.” New Dawn No. 111 (November-December 2008).

[207] Brian Allan, et al. Ancient Code: Are You Ready for the Real 2012? (Reality Press, 2009), p. 46.

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[209] Kerry Bolton. “Putin, Russia, & the Rise of a New Era.”

[210] “William H. Regnery.” Southern Poverty Law Center (accessed April 25, 2017).

[211] Ibid.

[212] Michael Wines & Stephanie Saul. “White Supremacists Extend Their Reach Through Websites.” New York Times (July 5, 2015).

[213] Josh Harkinson. “Meet the White Nationalist Trying To Ride The Trump Train to Lasting Power.” Mother Jones (October 27, 2016).

[214] Paul Gottfried. “Opening the Conservative Mind.” Taki’s Magazine (May 19, 2009).

[215] Benjamin R. Teitelbaum. “White Nationalists Give Up Trying to Be Respectable.” The Wall Street Journal (August 13, 2017).

[216] Tom Porter. “Meet Daniel Friberg, the Swedish mining tycoon bankrolling the alt-right’s global media empire.” International Business Times (March 6, 2017).

[217] Joscelyn Godwin. Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996), p. 146.

[218] Gerry Gable. “The growing Nazi axis.” Searchlight (May 8, 2017).

[219] Ibid.

[220] John Kersey. “Preserving the substance of a nation.” Traditional Britain Group (October 2013).

[221] “About.” traditionalbritain.org (accessed May 12, 2017).

[222] Ibid.

[223] Paul Jackson. “Traditional Britain: The New Revolutionary Conservatives.” Searchlight (January 30, 2014).

[224] Gerry Gable. “The growing Nazi axis.” Searchlight (May 8, 2017).

[225] Ibid.

[226] Tucker Carlson. “Tucker Carlson: Tyranny is coming unless someone stops Democrats' COVID power grab.” Fox News (December 2, 2021). Retrieved from https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-tyrany-democrats-covid-power-grab

[227] “Fox News Channel Tops Cable in Total Day Viewers for Record Eight Consecutive Months.” Fox News (February 2017).

[228] Ibid.

[229] Daniel Chaitin. “Roger Stone: Steve Bannon’s former ‘title of chief strategist is a misnomer, at best’.” Washington Examiner (January 4, 2018).

[230] Tim Mak. “The Troublemaker Behind Donald Trump’s Words.” The Daily Beast (January 19, 2017).

[231] “The Daily Caller.” SourceWatch. Retrieved from https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Daily_Caller

[232] Stephen Piggott & Alex Amend. “The Daily Caller Has A White Nationalist Problem,” The Southern Poverty Law Center (August 16, 2017).

[233] Philip Elliott & Zeke Miller. “Inside Donald Trump’s Chaotic Transition.” Time (November 18, 2016).

[234] Jane Mayer. “The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency.” The New Yorker (March 27, 2017 Issue).

[235] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Six, Chapter 15: Big Data.

[236] Carole Cadwalladr. “The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked.” The Guardian (May 7, 2017).

[237] Nicholas Confessore & Matthew Rosenberg. “Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data.” New York Times (March 27, 2018).

[238] Peter Thiel. “The Education of a Libertarian.” Response Essays, Cato Unbound (April 13, 2009).

[239] Eliana Johnson. “Donald Trump’s ‘shadow president’ in Silicon Valley.” Politico (February 26, 2017).

[240] “Conservative blogger Curtis Yarvin joins Tucker Carlson Today.” Fox Nation (September 08, 2021). Retrieved from https://video.foxnews.com/v/6271592770001#sp=show-clips

[241] Andy Beckett. “Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in.” The Guardian (May 11, 2017).

[242] Zack Beauchamp. “Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world.” Vox (November 18, 2019).

[243] Jean-Paul Bourré. Les sectes Lucifériennes aujourd'hui (Belfond, 1978), p. 99.

[244] “Reviewing Religions: The Process.” Frontline.

[245] Beauchamp. “Accelerationism.”

[246] Andy Beckett. “Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in.” The Guardian (May 11, 2017).

[247] Nick Land. “Occult Xenosystems.” Xenosystems (October 11, 2020). Retrieved from http://www.xenosystems.net/occult-xenosystems/

[248] Harrison Fluss & Landon Frim. “Behemoth and Leviathan: The Fascist Bestiary of the Alt-Right.” Salvage (December 21, 2017). Retrieved from https://salvage.zone/in-print/behemoth-and-leviathan-the-fascist-bestiary-of-the-alt-right/

[249] H. E. Upchurch. “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the ‘Skull Mask’ Neo-Fascist Network.” CTC Sentinel, 14, 10 (December 22, 2021), pp. 27–37.

[250] H. E. Upchurch. “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the ‘Skull Mask’ Neo-Fascist Network.” CTC Sentinel, 14, 10 (December 22, 2021), pp. 27–37; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, p. 19.

[251] “James Mason.” Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190617183023/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason

[252] Ibid.

[253] Ibid.

[254] A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston & Jake Hanrahan. “California Murder Suspect Said to Have Trained With Extremist Hate Group.” ProPublica (January 26, 2018).

[255] Alexander Reid Ross & Emmi Bevensee. “Confronting the Rise of Eco-Fascism Means Grappling with Complex Systems.” Center for Analysis of the Radical Right (July 2020), p. 16.

[256] H. E. Upchurch. “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the ‘Skull Mask’ Neo-Fascist Network.” CTC Sentinel, 14, 10 (December 22, 2021), pp. 27–37; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, p. 29.

[257] James Bacigalupo, Robin Maria Valeri & Kevin Borgeson. Cyberhate: The Far Right in the Digital Age (Rowman & Littlefield, Jan 15, 2022), p. 113.

[258] Alex Newhouse. “The Threat Is the Network: The Multi-Node Structure of Neo-Fascist Accelerationism.” CTC Sentinel (June 2021), p. 18.

[259] Bacigalupo, Maria Valeri & Borgeson. Cyberhate, p. 113.

[260] Alex Newhouse. “The Threat Is the Network: The Multi-Node Structure of Neo-Fascist Accelerationism.” CTC Sentinel (June 2021), p. 21.

[261] Daniel De Simone & Ali Winston. “Neo-Nazi militant group grooms teenagers.” BBC News (June 22, 2020). Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53128169

[262] Ben Mach & Mark Lamoureux. “Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces.” Vice News (September 24, 2020). Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qdzv/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces

[263] Bacigalupo, Maria Valeri & Borgeson. Cyberhate, p. 113.

[264] Newhouse. “The Threat Is the Network,” p. 18.

[265] Daniel Sallamaa & Tommi Kotonen. “The case against the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: an overview and some explanations.” RightNow! (Nov 2, 2020). Retrieved from https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2020/the-case-against-the-nordic-resistance-movement.html

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[267] A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston & Jake Hanrahan. “California Murder Suspect Said to Have Trained With Extremist Hate Group.” ProPublica (January 26, 2018).

[268] Alexander Reid Ross & Emmi Bevensee. “Confronting the Rise of Eco-Fascism Means Grappling with Complex Systems.” Center for Analysis of the Radical Right (July 2020), p. 16.

[269] Upchurch. “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the ‘Skull Mask’ Neo-Fascist Network.”

[270] Jacob C.Senholt. “Secret Identities in the Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism, and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles.” In The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. (eds.) Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Peterse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 269; Connell Monette. Mysticism in the 21st Century (Wilsonville, Oregon: Sirius Academic Press, 2013), p. 96.

[271] Upchurch. “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the ‘Skull Mask’ Neo-Fascist Network,” pp. 32.

[272] Ibid., pp. 32–33.

[273] A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston & Jake Hanrahan. “Inside Atomwaffen as it celebrates a member for allegedly killing a gay Jewish college student” ProPublica (February 23, 2018).

[274] Dan Sullivan. “Experts: One-time neo-Nazi charged in double murder has autism, schizophrenia.” Tampa Bay Times (December 12, 2019).

[275] Beauchamp. “Accelerationism.”