Kremlintarianism/Rage Against the War Machine Rally

pro-war rally pretending to be anti-war

Kremlintarian, warmonger, vatnik, tankie event on February 19, 2022.

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• press release “The US has instigated World War Three in Ukraine. NATO and the US are at war with nuclear superpower Russia. Countless thousands are being slaughtered for empire. Billions of taxpayer dollars are being torched at the altar of US hegemony, the Military Industrial Complex, and a corrupt Congress. The Doomsday Clock is closer to Midnight than ever before. Nuclear war threatens to kill nearly all life on Earth. Rage Against the War Machine will likely be the largest US anti-war protest since the Iraq War. Not one more penny for war in Ukraine!”

• PR person: Trevor FitzGibbon “It Took Just One Woman Breaking Her Silence On Sexual Harassment To Take Down A Top Progressive PR Boss”

Threads and articles about the rally

• Jonathan Casey, “Having an “anti-war” protest that doesn’t also call for Russia to cease its invasion, would be like having an anti-war protest in 2003 that didn’t call for the US to stop its invasion of Iraq.”, December 24, 2022

• GrandTurion, “Kremlintarians🤝tankies holding a warmonger, #ProWarRally 🧵”, January 14, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

• Zeist, “I decided to do a little digging into the sponsors for an upcoming astroturfed “anti-war” (viz. pro-Russia) protest (Rage Against the War Machine). Here are these organizations and front groups listed, as well as their principals. The protest demands are typical Kremlin fare.”, January 27, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally”, January 28, 2023

• Nadja, “This is not about peace, it’s about money. Not millions, billions. Let me explain...”, January 31, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

• Herbert Elizabeth fella, “So @RageAgainstWar_ have a March planned designed to undermine Western support for Ukrainian defence against the Russian Dictatorship ”, February 2, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

• A Wilson, “Raging Against Rage Against War”, February 3, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 2”, February 4, 2023

• Joshua Reed Eakle, “I believe that @LPNational’s upcoming @RageAgainstWar_ rally is more of a pro-Russia rally than an anti-war rally. The Libertarian Party’s involvement creates a huge hazard for the party and undermines the entire anti-war movement. Here’s a thread on why I believe this. 🧵”, February 4, 2023 (thread)

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 3”, February 5, 2023

• Jonathan Casey, Classical Liberal Caucus, “Statement regarding the “Rage against War” rally”, February 5, 2023 [1]

• Tyler Harris, “Speaker after speaker at the anti-war rally planned by LNC leadership are now letting the mask fully drop and openly admitting to being pro-Putin and pro-invasion, just as the many members that LNC leaders maligned over the past several weeks had warned. 🧵”, February 5, 2023

• Thomas L. Knapp, “Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys”, February 5, 2023

• Jonathan Casey, Classical Liberal Caucus, “@angela4LNCChair , the anti-war movement isn’t such a lost cause that we have to partner with pro-war agitators. Take a principled stand, let’s break away and unite the Libertarian Party behind a true anti-war rally! That drama would make for fantastic press for the LP!”, February 5, 2023

• Denis Zakharov, “Hey @RageAgainstWar_ , you are wrong and your speakers are pro-Putin opportunists with zero conscience. But is any of them brave enough to talk to me for an hour in a public Twitter Space? I am russian, heard you love Russia. And now... Tagging everyone.”, February 6, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
  • Reaction by Scott Horton, “Navalny’s little bitch has something important to say.”, February 6, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 4”, February 7, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 5”, February 8, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 6”, February 8, 2023

• David Holman, “Opposing one war, 20+ years ago doesn’t make you antiwar. Calling Ukraine a rabid dog that Putin needs to put down makes you a genocide advocate, war monger and generally despicable person that no libertarian should stand near”, February 8, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 7”, February 9, 2023

• Jonathan Casey, Classical Liberal Caucus, “Yesterday, the Libertarian Party released a statement regarding the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally. The time to talk has passed. This is the time for action.”, February 8, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 8”, February 10, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 9”, February 12, 2023

• Craig Bowden, “Exposing the Rage Against the War Machine Rally Part 10”, February 15, 2023

Vatniks opposed to the rally / controlled opposition (?)

• Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report, “Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiWarSoWhite”, February 8, 2023 ( works for RT)
  • “And look, on the surface, if one would look at the list of demands on the Rage Against The War Machine webpage - and I do take offense at their play on the name of the band Rage Against The Machine - one easily agrees with not sending one more penny to Ukraine, to slashing the Pentagon budget, to abolishing war and empire, to disbanding NATO, and to freeing Julian Assange, among others reasonable sounding demands and think, “Well this is great, I agree with all of these things, so of course I’ll support/align with them!””

• Michael Tracey, “While I like a number of people associated with the @RageAgainstWar_ rally, it has to be said: the fact that the organizers have chosen to feature participants who are avowedly NOT ”anti-war“ —but rather *explicitly pro-war* —undermines the entire stated purpose of the event” (thread) (pdf)

Media coverage

• Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, “Libertarian Party slammed for featuring convicted child sex offender at anti-war rally”, January 31, 2023 (archive)

• Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, “Libertarian Party To Feature Child Sex Predator at Isolationist Rally”, January 30, 2023

• Nick Reynolds, Newsweek, “Former Libertarian Presidential Candidate Torches Party”, February 8, 2023

• Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, “How Disagreement Over a Pedophile Upended a Libertarian Anti-War Rally”, February 9, 2023

• Caroline McCaughey, New York Sun, “Libertarian Party in Turmoil Over Upcoming Anti-War Rally”, February 9, 2023 (archive)

• Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, “Pedophile Pulls Out of Libertarian ‘Anti-War’ Rally”, February 10, 2023

• Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, “Anti-Semite Replaces Pedophile at Rally Protesting Aid to Ukraine”, February 13, 2023

Podcasts

• Fakertarians 52: Craig Bowden [2]

Statements from organizers

• Kremlintarian Party, “Statement from The Libertarian Party”, February 7, 2023 [3]

• Joshua Smith resignation

LP affiliates

• Libertarian Party of Ohio [4]

Calls to boycott

• Boycott “Rage Against the War Machine”

Organizers and sponsors

Organizers

• Kremlintarian Party

• People’s Party

Gold Sponsors ($5k)

• TNT Radio.live

• Food Forest Abundance

Silver Sponsors

• Mises Caucus

Bronze Sponsors

• CPI (Caleb Maupin)

• ProWarDotCom (ipso facto renamed)
  • is an official bronze sponsor of the rally
  • Editorial Director Scott Horton is a speaker, and promotes the rally on his show [5], which is promoted on Antiwar.com homepage.
  • “I received information from someone close to Antiwar.com that told me suggested speakers were turned down, however, in speaking directly with Eric Garris, Director of Antiwar.com, he stated that he had not spoken with anyone involved with organizing the primary rally in Washington, D.C., but is involved in setting up a concurrent rally in San Francisco to support the overall rally effort to end this war and is also supportive of Rage Against the War Machine rally in D.C. on February 19th.” [6] (emphasis added)
  • Promotes the rally on their website:
    • “Make plans now to get to Washington on February 19. Lend your presence to this potent new coalition of forces ... Let’s do this.”, “Right and Left To Join in D.C. Protest: ‘Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine’” [7]
    • “The demands and overall speaker list are very good.”, “Feb. 19: We Need a Huge Rage Against the War Machine”
    • John V. Walsh, “First National Rally Against Ukraine War Threat of Armageddon: Feb.19, February 15, 2023
    • Enough Is Enough: My Speech for the Rage Against the War Machine Rally
    • Max Blumenthal: Why You Should Come to the Antiwar Rally in DC This Sunday
  • has fundraising by Roger Waters, another pro-Putin speaker: Roger Waters, “A Personal Message From Roger Waters: Join Me in Supporting Antiwar.com”, October 25, 2022, “Roger Waters (co-founder of Pink Floyd) is offering $20,000 in matching funds, dollar for dollar, for every dollar of donation this week.”
  • nothing surprising actually, this is the same website who titled “Putin, the Patriot” in 2004. QED.

Withdrew

• Libertarian Party Radical Caucus (@LPRadicals) [8]
  • Withdrawal from Rage Against the War Machine Rally [9]

Speakers

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  Tara Reade, Putin stan

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  Wyatt Reed, RT employee

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  Jackson Hinkle, warmonger

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  Craig Pasta Jardula, warmonger

compare list with: Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees (7 speakers) https://conference.rt.com/#speakers (2 speakers)

• Scott Ritter (invited by Angela McArdle [10]), cancelled, uncancelled, asked to not come and withdrew (“we would prefer that he stay home from the rally” leading to “For personal reasons, I will no longer be speaking.”))

• Cynthia McKinney

• Tara Reade

• Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)

• Anya Parampil (The Grayzone)

• Wyatt Reed (The Grayzone)

• Scott Horton (ProWarDotCom)

• Ron Paul

• Wyatt Reed (RT: “I work for a Bad Guy state-funded media (@Sputnik/@RT_com/@CGTNOfficial/@PressTV)”)

• David Swanson

• Jackson Hinkle

• Jill Stein

• Craig Pasta Jardula

• Gerald Celente

• Roger Waters (video)

• Tatiana Moroz, pretends to be Ukrainian but... [11] [12] [13]

Withdrew

• Matthew Hoh [14]

• Supreme, sent a cease & desist, as the Rally are still using his photo on their website... [15] @JoshuaAtLarge @RealScottRitter - LET’S ALL ASK @angela4LNCChair Why shes Aligning herself with the People on the Roster... Why No Press Release that I’m Not Speaking or PERFORMING? Where’s the Money? I have a lot to share regarding this event #fraud #staytuned 🔥

• Medea Benjamin (Codepink) “I support the rally and will be there. Unfortunately, my organization CODEPINK doesn’t and has urged me not to speak.”

• Andrew Napolitano

Financing

• https://twitter.com/Vegan_Succubus/status/1622540798138155015 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1622540798138155015.html ProWarRally-financing.pdf

• https://twitter.com/BowdenOnBass/status/1623937763866472449

https://twitter.com/RJohnston815/status/1623323359307083776

https://twitter.com/RJohnston815/status/1626501531603271680

• https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1626647710420897796

• https://twitter.com/gaughen/status/1626709246019616768

Related organizations and supporters

• Code Pink

• The Grayzone

• George Galloway

• Ron Paul Institute for Promoting Putinism

• Schiller Institute / LaRouche
  • https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2023/02/03/conference-the-age-of-reason-or-the-annihilation-of-humanity/ · Diane Sare (United States), candidate for U.S. Senate (New York); Nick Brana (United States), National Chair, People’s Party; Angela McArdle (United States), Chair, Libertarian National Committee: “Can Americans Put Aside Their Divisions to Stop Nuclear War?”
  • https://twitter.com/PostLeftWatch/status/1622865541106122753

• Green Party
  • https://gpax.gpus.org/gpus-endorses-rage-against-the-war-machine-demonstration/
  • https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1623374396114063360
  • Factoid: The Nat’l Committee of Delegates of the @GreenPartyUS held a vote on endorsement of the “Rage Against The War Machine” pseudo-rally. Results? 54 Yes - 50 No - 11 Abstain. I was among the 50 that voted NO. Of course, @DrJillStein is NOT going to talk about this part. 💅🏾
  • GPUS endorses Rage Against War Machine rally to stop the race to the nuclear brink:
  • Garret Wassermann, Past co-chair 2021-2023 @GreenPartyUS, “I have resigned from steering committee of the Green Party US. More in future, but for now I want to emphasize that Greens should not participate in the Rage Against War event that promotes & raises money for pro-war, transphobic speakers. @DrJillStein I hope you will withdraw.”, February 14, 2023

• Green Libertarians
  • Endorsed, withdrew support, endorsed again [16]

• Ryan Dawson

Sister rallies

• https://www.annarborcoalitionagainstwar.org/home/#rage-against-the-war-machine

• https://www.facebook.com/events/899258031525524/

• Marvelous Mischief, “These are the “sister rallies” of the fash rally. You might want to check if your city is included, to stay of fash” (thread) (pdf)

• San Francisco Rally
  • Organizer: Cynthia Papermaster

• Sacramento Rally
  • Organizer: California United Front

• Austin Texas Rally
  • Organizer: Will Gullatt

• Montpelier, Vermont Rally
  • Organizer: Olga Maria

• Los Angeles Rally
  • Organizer: Lena Platt

Demands and misinformation

• Nidheg/Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reasons

• russian invasion of Ukraine/Reasons

• Euromaidan

• “anti-imperialism” of idiots

Actual anti-war movements

• Russian invasion of Ukraine/Russians against the war