Homeland Security Is Quietly Tying Antifa to Foreign Powers
www.thenation.com
An intelligence report obtained exclusively by The Nation mentions several Americans, including a left-wing podcast host.
  • CoralMarks [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is like pretty bad. You remember the poem "First they came for ..."
    They're coming.

  • No_Values [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The first individual mentioned in the intelligence report, Brace Belden, co-hosts the popular left-wing podcast “TrueAnon,” and fought with the YPG in 2016. Their information appears to be partly drawn from a 2017 article on Belden in Rolling Stone. Belden is described as “a minor criminal and drug addict who started reading Marx and Lenin in drug rehabilitation treatment and became involved in a number of political causes before deciding to fight alongside the YPG.” The report goes on to describe an encounter between Belden and border authorities.

    U.S. citizen (USC) Brace BELDEN was encountered on 08 April 2017, arriving in San Francisco, California from Frankfurt, Germany. BELDEN was returning from a six month tour of volunteering to fight with the YPG under the umbrella of the Syrian Democrat Forces (SDF) fighting ISIS in Syria as part of the ongoing Raqqa offensive starting in November 2016 to retake Raqqa from ISIS. BELDEN stated he recently learned that an open source article had been written about him and his “Anarchist” fighters.

    Belden scoffed at the association. “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of any antifa organization,” he told The Nation. “The US government has been spying on and smearing communists for 100 years but they usually have the decency not to call a Red an anarchist!”

    I'm an anarchist, but goddamn do I love brace

    • _else [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      omg, right? like, yes, I know im gonna be kidnapped and taken to a concentration camp, but they can at LEAST label me as the right type(s) of undesirable when they do. can't be sporting the wrong patches in camp.

      i kind of meant this ironically, but it just sorta got away from me. now I don't even know.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    God I wish I had a tie to a foreign power. I wouldn't have to work my shit job for a shit company. I could be a national failson of Russia or China and target propaganda on Facebook to boomers 5 hours a week

    • _else [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      is there any foreign power who would take me? would risk my life spying on or murdering filthy americans for an escape to the civilized world. I don't expect I'll ever get the chance.