I sometimes see New Atlas videos popping up, and I have often needed to have the same struggle session with the poster of the video. So my problem, being an old fuck that I am, have been following Brian since the late naughts. Back in 2009-ish, being an internet nerd meant Indymedia, Blogger, and Geocities created webpages. He was a pretty open reactionary before Twitter and YouTube became big. He tied his wagon pretty solidly to Inforwars around 2010.
Brian Berletic used to go by the name of Tony Cartalucci. The original Tony C used to write HEAPS for Infowars [example] [example - he cites Paul Joseph Watson] [example]. Sadly the Wayback Machine doesn't have a search name feature, but you can still find Infowars when you type his name in. The message was very globalist, George Soros kinda stuff.
I hear you saying, hey ButtBidet, that was in 2012. Maybe the guy has grown in the last twelve years. Hey, many of us started out as libs.
To which I answer: with the name change to Brian Berletic, he's distanced himself from the Infowars garbage and gotten a better message, but he's still far right as fuck.
For example, he did the antivax thing hard during 2020-21. He's done a lot of climate change skepticism pretty recently. Lastly, he's very clearly pro-monarchy.
I see that he writes from the maybe Russian funded journal NEO (according to Wikipedia which I'm too lazy to verify). Honestly I couldn't care less if Russia is funding him, but I just assume that he's an intellectual for hire.
the Judge Napolitano show on youtube has done the 'service' of gathering many of these so called anti-system commentators on one channel, all those guests are guaranteed to be culturally on the right (except for Jeffrey Sachs maybe, he seems like a lib), we can usually tell what's up with their politics by their convenient omissions, they omit or talk neutrally (or even negatively sometimes) about Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran, almost never mention any positives about China (or any other socialist countries), everything is the fault of 'the globalists' (doing their best Alex Jones impressions), they usually make excuses for Trump, Ritter says it's all on Netanyahu as if the next person in charge won't be a zionist, The Duran guys say the only way to save the UK right now is a Farage government, Pepe Escobar seems to be quickly repeating stuff from pro-Russian sources without checking it, overall they are playing word games to make themselves look like a 'noble anti-system bunch' but there are contradictions in what they're putting out