New documents reveal a covert British military-intelligence smear machine meddling in American politics
The
Integrity Initiative has mobilized an international disinformation
campaign across Europe. Now, with government and right-wing
foundation money, this massive “political smear unit” is
infiltrating the US.
by
Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames
Part
9 - Pedophile co-founder, white nationalist associates
C4SS
was co-founded in 2006 by a confessed child molester and libertarian
activist, Brad Spangler, who set the group up to promote “Market
anarchism” to “replace Marxism on the left.”
When
Spangler’s child rape confessions emerged in 2015, the Center
for Stateless Society founder was finally drummed out by his
colleagues.
There’s
more: Spangler’s understudy and deputy in the C4SS, Kevin
Carson — currently listed as the group’s “Karl Hess Chair in
Social Theory” — turned out to be a longtime friend and defender
of white nationalist Keith Preston. Preston’s name is prominently
plastered on the back of Kevin Carson’s book, hailing the C4SS
man as “the Proudhon of our time” — a loaded compliment,
given Proudhon’s unhinged anti-Semitism. Carson only disowned
Preston in 2009, shortly before Preston helped white nationalist
leader Richard Spencer launch his alt-right webzine, Alternative
Right.
The C4SS
group currently participates in the annual Koch-backed International
Students For Liberty conference in Washington DC, LibertyCon,
a who’s who of libertarian think-tank hacks and Republican Party
semi-celebrities like Steve Forbes, FCC chairman Ajit Pai, and Alan
Dershowitz.
In 2013,
C4SS’s Kevin Carson tweeted out his dream fantasy that four
Jewish leftists — Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Corey Robin, and Mark
Potok — would die in a plane crash while struggling over a single
parachute. Potok was an executive editor at the Southern Poverty
Law Center, which last year retracted every one of the crank
articles that Alexander Reid Ross published with them and formally
apologized for having run them.
For some
reason, the super-sleuth Ross conveniently failed to investigate the
libertarian group, C4SS, that he has chosen to partner with
and publish in. That ability to shamelessly smear and denounce
leftists over the most crudely manufactured links to the far-right —
while cozying up to groups as sleazy as C4SS and
authoritarian as the Integrity Initiative — is the sort of
adaptive trait that MI6 spies and the Rendon Group would find
useful in a covert domestic influence operation.
Ross did
not respond to our request for comment on his involvement with the
Integrity Initiative and C4SS.
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