NAME:Alexandr Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин) HOME BASE: Moscow, Russia DOB: January 7, 1962

In Oct 2014, the white supremacist National Policy Institute attempted to hold a conference in Budapest, Hungary in the latest effort by paleoconservatives in America to unite with fascists in other parts of the world that have seen a little more success than they ever could stateside. Unfortunately for them, it didn't come without the usual opposition, and that meant the conference location getting raided by Hungarian police and the conference itself shut down – or at least sent away to an undisclosed location. NPI leader Dick Spencer ended up getting detained for that weekend by authorities, eventually deported and banned from entering much of Europe for the next three years. Meanwhile the Hungarian white nationalist Jobbik party and British white nationalist publisher Arktos pulled back their support before the conference, and other like-minded foreigners were either being told to stay home or were sent back to their countries if they showed up at the airport. One of those people that was denied a visa by the Hungarian government was a Russian nationalist so-called “philosopher” named Alexandr Dugin, and his “philosophy” has made room for such gems from him such as "If we want to liberate ourselves from the West, it is needed to liberate ourselves from textbooks on physics and chemistry,” and that the entire Internet needs to be banned “because it gives nobody anything good.”

This is the kind of thing you should expect from a guy who is cheerleading a “conservative revolution” in Russia that wipe out all vestiges of liberalism in that nation and return Russia to the totalitarianism the world complained about with the Soviet Union. Dugin apparently thinks however that the only problem with that was that the USSR chose the platform of Communism to work from, as opposed to Fascism, more to the point his preferred brand of Fascism called Eurasianism. And make no bones about it, that's exactly what he is about. While saying he is against “biological racism”, he has written in the past that in his preferred make up of Eurasia that “wherever there is a single drop  of  Aryan (Slavic, Turkic,  Caucasian, European) blood, there is a chance for racial awakening, for the rebirth of the primordial Aryan conscience.”  

As Russia and the Ukraine go to war over Ukraine's effort to become an independent nation, Dugin is right there trying to keep the Ukraine part of Russia, corresponding with the loyalists in Ukraine, building alliances in the European Union between right and left parties to influence EU policy in the region and being the author behind the annexation of the internationally recognized Ukraninan territory of Crimea by the Russian Federation. A professor in the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University until 2014, he lost his job when the Russian government started to soften their position on the Ukraine conflict.

Born in Moscow, Dugin was an anti-communist writer in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He once embarked on a military career and enrolled in the Moscow Aviation Institute, but after authorities learned of his association with far right circles – even translating into Russian Pagan Imperialism by the neo-fascist (although he might say otherwise) philosopher Julius Evola – They arrested and eventually canned him. He worked as a street sweeper and journalist until things started to fall apart with the Soviet Union, and then he jumped into politics. He joined the anti-Semitic group Pamyat, who believed, among other things, that the so-called “Zionist Occupational Government” (ZOG) was running Russia into the ground. He left Pamyat because of he considered its low intellectual level, and eventually started a book publishing company and also went on to help found the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) in 1993. Considering them not to be as right-wing as he liked,  Dugin led some other hardliners to split off and form the National Bolshevik Front (NBF). He later split from this and started to associate with other circles, including Vladamir Putin's, and he has been encouraging him to find alternatives to a relationship with America. He particularly pushes a Eurasian alternative that would solidify the bonds of European and Asian nations and become a rival to the United States whom he believes is pushing a worldwide hegemony through its involvement in world affairs, particularly the Middle East.

In 2002, the Eurasian Party was formed by Dugin and officially recognized by Russia. Three years later, he started the Eurasian Youth Union (EYU) in the Ukraine, and it only took a year before the Ukraine listed him persona non grata and banned the EYU. This has not stopped him for basically using his supporters there to wage a war on the Ukraine for years before Russia decided to. And with the outbreak of violence in the region Dugin has been feeling his oats. In a tweet on August 23, 2014, he said:

“Ukraine should be cleared of the idiots. Genocide of the cretins is suggested. The evil cretins are closed to the Voice of the Logos, and deadly with all their incredible stupidity. I do not believe that these are Ukrainians. Ukrainians are beautiful Slavic people. This kind of appeared out of manholes as a bastard race.”

Now just because Dugin isn't a fan of the West doesn't mean he stays completely away. In March 2015 it was announced that he was to speak at Texas A&M. The invite came courtesy of Preston Wigginton, a neo-Nazi from Texas who has been trying to forge international links between like-minded folks here and abroad to keep “white nations” from becoming "a homogenous muddle of sludge.” He has lived in Moscow, subletting from his friend David Duke and working with Russian fascists, and being that Texas A&M is a public university has been renting out auditoriums there and putting on speaking events for white supremacists for over a decade.

When Wigginton tried this for Dugin however, there was a bit of a roadblock. Dugin and other leaders of the EYU are sanctioned by the United States “for being responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, or sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine,” according to the US Treasury. That meant he could not enter the country – but its totally not for a book he published lin 2014 titled The American Empire Should Be Destroyed! So Wiginton set up a Skype presentation for him, a lecture titled “"American Liberalism Must be Destroyed “! Despite protests from various groups, notably the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the event went on as planned on April 29, and it had to be prefaced with Wigginton saying the U.S. government said Dugin was not allowed to "say anything promoting violence or taking over the U.S. government or anything about genocide." Dugin went on to express his love for the American people, and said his sanction must have been sparked by those “who fear the evolution of Putin’s Russia in the direction that I am representing.” From pictures of the event, it didn't look like the love was returned, as rows of empty seats would indicate.

It's dangerous to take a position for either side in the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Both sides seem to be driven by Fascist ideologies with the xenophobic, antisemitic “Pravy Sektor” (Right Sector) being the main fighters in the Ukraine. But people are taking positions either way regardless, and that has made for some very strange and incredibly bad bedfellows. That was apparent in December 2014 when leftists and rightists, many from the U.S., traveled to Moscow to participate in an international conference on the “Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and Building a Multi-Polar World.” Being that there were so many hardcore fascists there, any leftist  that attended should wonder just how much of an alliance they can truly build. But given that one of Dugin's books is titled The Theory of a Multi-Polar World and EYU members were in attendance at the conference, those same leftist attendees should have really wondered just what in all holy hell were they doing there. There is no building any kind of alliances with Fascists, period. Dugin, who ultimately is nothing more than a snake-oil salesman trying to make Fascism look appealing to everyone – just before he starts cutting the throats of many he dupes – is a very good example as to why there isn't.

NAME: Angelo John Gage HOME BASE: Brick, NJ DOB: May 18, 1984

Leonard Lance is the Republican Congressperson in heavily Republican District 7 in New Jersey, but being that this is New Jersey you can't be too conservative without getting into some trouble. Lance put down a few challenges from people who were part of the teabagger crowd, and he has broken with his party to support legislation like environmental protection. So when you are further right than the teabaggers – like say, a neo-Nazi – and you are running for office, you're pretty much doing a fundraiser since you don't have a real chance of winning anyway. That's more than likely the deal with this brand new piece of work (among other things) named Angelo John Gage, a shill for the White supremacist American Freedom Party (AFP) and the chairman of the AFP-sponsored National Youth Front (NYF). In 2014 he ran for Rep. Lance's seat as a member of the AFP, but he didn't even show up on the ballot, and the only way anyone knew that he was even running is if someone within his circles or anti-racist groups putting him on blast made note of it. So coming off his defeat in the polls, these days his thing is to be the biggest propagandist for the neo-Nazi scene, and that has lent itself to some of the most craptastic crap that ever been crapped!

To fully appreciate it all, we have to explain how this started. In November 2014, the AFP started the NYF, which it said on its website was a “an elite youth organization dedicated to the preservation of America our Western culture [sic].” It's basically a propaganda and activism mill, putting out videos and littering random communities with flyers that deal with various issues of their concern, and they have quite a few active members. It's first chairman was a kid named Caleb C. Shumaker formerly of the Conservative Youth Council, which just like the NYF is a youth activism arm of a fringe third party, the far-right Conservative Party USA. Shumaker didn't last long, however. He resigned in January 2015 saying in his resignation letter, “Due to recent attacks against me, my family and by those whom I believed would support and appreciate what we are doing, I feel it best to step down from my position as chairman of National Youth Front, and step away entirely from the organization.” Gee, we wonder why. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, AFP Chairman William Johnson told them that those attacks came from within the circles NYF traveled and for a very curious reason. “Caleb Shumaker was forced out because of his interracial marriage,” Johnson said. “I was working with him closely, but there was a lot of backlash [because of his marriage] … from people who were not involved [in NYF].”

So here comes Angelo John Gage to take his place. Born in Italy and moving here when he was two, according to him, he was 17 during Sept. 11, and that is what prompted him to join the Marines leaving as a corporal. He then started to gravitate to some of the consparicy theories about 9/11 being an inside job and other tin foil hattery, and that led him to head conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But Jones wasn't enough of a crackpot. Gage was missing something and listening to David Icke he realized what that was – antisemitism. Even though he thought that people like Jones and Icke were what he called “controlled opposition”, Icke's mentioning of “Rothchild Zionism” led him on a Google search to find out what that was. Then he started to read more on Zionism on apparently all the wrong website and this meathead bought into what he read.  “I started Googling, 'What's up with Jews?' 'Why are they all bankers?'...”Why are they hated?' I wanted to know where did antisemitism come from,” he explained in one of his videos. “'Why did Hitler hate the Jews?' I typed that in, and then a whole other reality was shown to me, one that was extremely hard to believe, and I was like, 'No fuckin' way is this true. No way! No! All my life I've been told this story. World War II was this way.' And that's when everything changed to me.”

Gage took from everything he read that Hitler was actually the good guy simply trying to rid the world of Communism and instead he was vanquished by Jewish-controlled interests that have been lying to the world since 1913, so he is putting himself out there to fight it all in the name of White people around the world because he thinks the White population is dying out never to be seen again or something. “(T)he reason why it's dwindling is because all of the homelands that we founded are being overrun...by these invaders because the Communists have ursurped our country!” he said, speaking of everyone who isn't white that ended up in places like America and Europe. “These non-White people, that is the main weapon that the Communists are using to destroy us!”

Here is where we get into the effed up thing about this guy. Gage is into something called Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a methodology that has been used by hypnotherapists in the past and who's most famous practitioner is the controversial motivational speaker Tony Robbins. NLP is largely denounced as brainwashing as well as a cult, so much so that several websites and Facebook pages have been dedicated to warning people about it. Gage is what they call a NLP master practitioner and Conversational Hypnotist, graduating from the International Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis in Manhattan. Even he refers to it in a blog entry that it “is like a mind-hacking program that can be used for good or bad.” And the reason why he says that is because he spends that same entry to accuse his “enemies” of using NLP against him and his people by using words and phrases that would trigger a specific action that is adverse to them in any given situation, saying further that the best way to fight the enemy is to also use this version of NLP. “Remember, NLP is not an offensive strategy,” he writes. “(A)ll you have to do is strategically set them up with questions (like your trying to catch someone lying), sit back and point out flaws in their arguments until they are forced to realize them, and hope they are willing to accept reality.”

Except it's not reality. It's Angelo Gage trying to run a con job on someone, and more to the point, he is calling what he is doing “mind-hacking”.

And this is why he gravitates so much to propaganda. Over the past year alone, he and NYF had been all over the place with their videos, Gage's podcasts on the White Voice website, NYF memes and NYF flyers. NYF has also been trying since its inception to establish chapters on college campuses across the country, so Gage's main thing as of late has been to take something that had become a racially-charged right-wing temper tantrum on a campus somewhere and try to make it his own. His go-to source has in particular been the website CampusReform.org, which is a project of the Arlington, Virginia-based Leadership Institute (LI), an organization that works to build up activism on college campuses among conservative students, and as of late been the well that a number of youth-oriented hate groups sprung from, namely Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), which was founded by LI members, and Traditional Youth Network, which was founded by Matthew Heimbach, who was the president of his YWC chapter in Towson University. In fact, one of CampusReform's regular writers had been YWC member Timothy Dionisopoulous. So it was pretty much par for the course when Fox News interviewed a CampusReform member about  Arizona State University Prof. Lee Bebout's course titled “U.S. Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness”, Gage and NYF piggybacked off it, which became pretty much the first time anyone noticed they existed.

That's not due to lack of trying, mind you. The NYF was doing things at Arizona State just prior to this controversy breaking, posting flyers around a few campuses following the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo allegedly by Islamic militants, one being an anti-Islamic screed about immigration that among other things said:

“Millions of illigals (sic) flood our borders. Millions more are brought here illegally, even though we continue to suffer the worst economic crisis since the great depression. Our politicians refuse to protect us and out livelyhood (sic). They have lost complete touch with reality. Our Corporations donate hundreds of millions of dollors (sic) to funding immigration foundations, while laying off their own employees."

Not wanting to come off too whiny, we suppose they added this to try and be a little inspiring:

"We will not fail, we will not fear, we will not falter. We will not dissapear (sic). This is a declaration of war. America is ours, and we are tomorrow.”

Bebout's class gave the NYF something to do that got them noticed, and after a few months of rallying against him, they were joined by members of the National Socialist Movement, when they held a protest just outside campus in March of 2015 demanding his firing. But they were met with a lot of opposition and basically told to go to Hell. And how well did the NYF fare? The school stood behind Bebout, then an assistant professor of English but has since received tenure and is a full professor.

But Gage just wanted the face time, so since this worked in that regard it became the template. Again, it was  CampusReform who did another article in April 2015, this time about a bulletin board campaign at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. that was aimed to get students to reflect on if they benefited from white, male, class, Christian, cisgender, heterosexual or able-bodied privilege. Again, Fox News pushed the story, and again Gage latched onto it. The NYF tried to hassle the chancellor of Appalachian State, but that went nowhere although Gage likes to pretend that the removal of the bulletin board was his group's doing. Problem with that line of thinking is that a second board went up, and when NYF responded with flyers around campus, Appalachian State students responded by calling the group out on their Facebook page.

NYF continued to go after other colleges as well. Many, including Rutgers University, the alma mater of a number of One People's Project founders – not to mention another Leadership Institute alum with white supremacist connections named James O'Keefe, just ignored them. Boston College had other plans for NYF however. Simply put, they didn't put up with their shit at all. In June Incoming professor Saida Grundy came under fire for a series of tweets on a number of issues from police brutality to income inequality that were seen as attacking Whites in general. She apologized for the manner in she addressed the issues but not for addressing them, so conservatives got a tad upset about that. CampusReform wrote about it early in the month, saying that there had been calls to fire Grundy, but Gage didn't jump on it until the beginning of July and he went to Boston College to post flyers around campus that basically signaled they were taking over the campaign to fire her. Well, it backfired. Grundy will still be teaching at Boston University, and Gage got a letter from the Boston University Police Dept. that in part read, “Effective immediately, you [are] hereby notified that you are forbidden to enter or remain upon any of the properties of Boston University.” For our purposes, the cherry on top was how the letter was dated July 22, 2015 – Daryle Lamont Jenkins' birthday!

Levity aside however, we wonder just how much Gage is living in the real world. And if his happy-go-bat-shit-insane fake world ever comes to a head with the real world, he's going to find himself in a world of hurt, and he has even said so in his videos where he says that guys like him don't fare well in today's society. But he has people kissing his ass, and for a guy who is into “mind-hacking” that makes all the difference in the world. So what if he is reportedly associating with James Mazzone (a/k/a James M. McManus), the onetime head of the New Jersey chapter of Aryan Nations, who only recently served a stint in jail for drug dealing? What could possibly go wrong? Watch this space. Folks are going to have fun with this chump.

NAME: John E. Taylor HOME BASE: Muncie, IN

At the time we are writing this there is a lot of unrest in Ferguson, MO with St. Louis County authorities declaring a state of emergency and more than 100 people were arrested on the second day of protests marking a year since Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. Also on that day, the militia group known as the Oath Keepers showed up on the streets, and that just made things that much more special. The Oath Keepers are former and current military and law enforcement who  as their website states, “pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'” Okay, that sounds benign enough, but as many right-wing efforts go, what they say and how they operate are two different things. So naturally when an all-white, heavily armed group of paramilitary buffoons who were last seen protecting racist rancher and tax cheat Cliven Bundy at his ranch in Nevada show up in the middle of a racial flareup, there's going to be people wondering what the hell is going on.

But this is not so much about Ferguson, but rather the kinds of people who they have had fill their ranks. This was not the first time the Oath Keepers have been in Ferguson. They also showed up in November 2014 when there was a violent flareup following the grand jury decision to clear Officer Wilson of wrongdoing. There were similar concerns as there is the second time they appeared, and fortunately nothing bad happened. On Facebook supporters posted the story of their people going into town and cheered them on, one particular post by a guy named John E. Taylor was particularly curious, simply saying, “Makes me proud to be an Oath Keeper.”

Why is this post particularly curious? Because John E. Taylor is the older brother of White supremacist Jared Taylor, publisher of American Renaissance.

Looking at him more, we find out that John Taylor, a former Marine, is a “Michigan Moderator” of Oath Keepers. He currently lives in Muncie, Indiana which is a bit of a distance from Michigan, but his wife Cathy is originally from there, so that might be the connection. Now we would not be bringing up John Taylor simply because of his brother's activities. Ardent Christian Rightists, he and his wife are also both very supportive of Jared, sharing his writings on Facebook regularly and attending his events. We will say that John stays under the radar for the most part however, basically focusing on his faith and militia support. In other words, he's one of those people who clings to his guns and religion!

The Oath Keepers were asked to leave Ferguson the last time they showed up, and we expect to update this entry to say they were again. But when you see people like John Taylor joining them, and the baggage he may bring you can get an idea as to what it is about these groups that have people concerned in the first place.