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Russian Spies Were Behind Black Nationalist Protest Groups-Indictment exposes ties between Moscow, black nationalist groups, and Antifa.
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Aug 4, 2022 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 08/05/2022 6:36:20 AM PDT by SJackson

After years of Russiagate conspiracy theories about how the Russians had somehow rigged the 2016 presidential election using Facebook ads, the Senate Intelligence report awkwardly revealed that the Russian operation had focused most of its attention on black nationalists.

The Senate report revealed that "most of the videos" put out by the Russian IRA troll factory on YouTube "pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization" and found that "no single group of Americans was targeted... more than African-Americans" around "race and related issues".

But that was an understatement.

The Russians had created their own Black Lives Matter groups, activists and protests. It is still not fully clear where the dividing lines between black nationalists and Russian agents lie. And the media has consistently buried these revelations about the real Russian role in our politics to focus on the discredited smears targeting President Trump and his political allies.

And yet the true Russian agents were the black nationalists championed by the Left.

The recent indictment of Aleksandr Ianov, a Russian figure operating in coordination with Russia’s FSB security agency, accuses him of recruiting and providing financial support for black nationalist groups in the United States.

One of the black nationalist groups in the indictment is the Black Hammer Party whose leader Gazi Kodzo had described Anne Frank as a "colonizer" and “bleach demon” and who has since been arrested on charges of kidnapping, assault, and aggravated sodomy.

The Marxist group involved in BLM protests had been known for marching through Atlanta behind its “gender non-conforming” leader who calls himself “they”, and shouting, “Kill the police! To get free, you’ve got to kill the pigs.”

Another of these was the Uhuru Movement, a socialist black nationalist group previously involved in race riots in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1996.

The Tampa Bay Times described the city becoming a “war zone, echoing with bullets, sirens and anguished screams” where “police officers took cover from automatic gunfire” and “police helicopters circled looking for rooftop snipers” while “one helicopter was hit by gunfire in the windshield and floor. A bullet grazed the pilot's elbow.”

The violence had begun with the arrest of an Uhuru member outside its headquarters.

More recently, Uhuru figures took part in Black Lives Matter marches. Despite the group's ugly history, when its black nationalist flag was set on fire, the media rushed to falsely claim that it was a hate crime when it was actually a black man who burned the supremacist group’s symbol of hate with a flamethrower because he hated socialists.

The indictment of the alleged Russian agent and the raid on Uhuru House has revisited the question of the ties between Moscow and its racist supremacist fifth column.

Omali Yeshitela, who claims that he was handcuffed during a raid on Uhuru House, is a longtime black nationalist figure with a history with the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther hate group. He appeared at a New Black Panther Party convention and had been involved in an anti-semitism controversy at a hate event at San Diego State University.

Uhuru is a deeply racist movement and some of its latest materials include claims that white people are "barbarians" and "terrorists", and that they "achieve their means of existence from a parasitic relationship they enjoy with the rest of the world." These are ideas fundamental to the critical race theory understanding of the world, in arenas such as the 1619 Project and the entire anti-racism project, but the question is how many of these ideas were coming out of Moscow?

One of the Uhuru projects backed by Russia was a campaign titled, "Africans Charge Genocide". “We Charge Genocide” was originally a Communist project in the 1950s under Stalinist singer Paul Robeson and the Communist front group, the Civil Rights Congress.

Black nationalism, from its early days a century ago, had been tied up with Communists, and with the rise of the Soviet Union was increasingly organized and funded out of Moscow.

Uhuru candidates for political office in St. Petersburg, Florida, appeared to be backed by Russian agents. The FSB received campaign statistics and information with one officer of the Russian security agency commenting, "our election campaign is kind of unique."

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the campaign fit the profile of Eritha “Akile” Cainion, the editor of Uhuru’s Burning Spear paper, whose city council campaign was promoted by local media which praised her racialist slogan, “Make the Southside Black Again.”

One ad on her Instagram urged, “call us to pick up your ballot”.

At the time it was recorded that she had "raised nearly $30,000, primarily through small donations, including several as little as $1. Much of her money has come from donors who live out of state."

Cainion, currently the director of agitation and propaganda for the African People's Socialist Party, responded to the Uhuru raid with a press conference, echoing traditional Communist propaganda and claiming that, "world colonial powers have been collaborating against Russia for well into the early 1900s." And she declared, “We are in support of Russia.”

How far do the longtime links between black nationalists and Russia’s spy organizations go?

Previous events involving Ionov's Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia allegedly included Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report whom Cornel West had praised as "one of the few great truth tellers", and more traditional Trotskyist groups such as the Workers World Party which played an early role in statue attacks in the South and may have links to Antifa.

After the statue attack in Durham, the Workers World Party issued a statement claiming that it “put out a call for militant action to our close comrades in Black Youth Project 100, Durham Beyond Policing, Southerners on New Ground, Industrial Workers of the World and local Antifa.”

A Workers World writeup of one of Ionov's conferences featured a presentation on Russia's territorial claims in Ukraine, along with "the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people" and concluded with a protest against racism outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

"Demonstrators carried photos of Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Rasmea Odeh and chanted, 'Hands up! Don’t shoot' and 'I can’t breathe!'”

Odeh is the Muslim terrorist linked to the murder of two Jewish college students in Israel.

There’s little novel here except that the old Soviet propaganda machine is still running in Moscow and promoting the same coalition of Communists, black nationalists and Muslim terrorists this time under the aegis of a what Putin had created as the National Military Fund.

The question is how much of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence came out of Moscow?

Much like the Soviet involvement in race riots and domestic terrorism by the black nationalist and anti-war Left during the Cold War, we will likely never get a full accounting of the impact.

And yet an important missing piece of Russiagate is that the Left was once again accusing conservatives of its own crimes. Right down to the Russian backing for its election interference.

The Russians weren’t elevating Trump and Republicans, they were backing the far Left.

Democrats answer to their furthest fringes of black nationalists and leftists who were allowed to engage in a long orgy of national violence, and then to hijack our economic and cultural institutions in the name of critical race theory with the so-called Black Lives Matter movement.

America’s radical enemies attacked government buildings, churches and synagogues, toppled statues, assaulted police, and carried out the nation’s biggest insurrection in two generations with the overt political support of the media, leading corporations, and the Democrats.

The end result put Biden in power and America on a course to international decline. Moscow and Beijing are the biggest beneficiaries of that decline.

Russian Facebook ads had nothing to do with the 2016 election, but they helped promote the hate groups behind the “mostly peaceful” race riots that changed the political trajectory of 2020.

And FSB agents were apparently directly involved with at least one black nationalist hate group.

A real Russia investigation would finally expose the longstanding ties between the American Left and our international adversaries, including their longtime backers in Moscow.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; aleksandrianov; blackhammerparty; blacks; blm; race; russia; socialunrest; spies; uhuru; uhurumovement
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To: SJackson
It is well known the KGB was behind a lot of the so called civil rights movement in the 60s....especially the violent wing of the movement.
21 posted on 08/05/2022 6:58:32 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SJackson

Dear God, someone needs to get a life!


22 posted on 08/05/2022 6:59:22 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (raise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: dfwgator

You’re thinking of Black Irish.


23 posted on 08/05/2022 7:00:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SJackson

This follows the rule of opposites—whatever the Democrats and the mass media say, the exact opposite is probably closer to the truth.


24 posted on 08/05/2022 7:00:26 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SJackson

There is no way the CIA didn’t know what was going on. They were likely a part of this in some way.


25 posted on 08/05/2022 7:02:00 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Wallace T.

Russia wants the New World Odor (not a mis-spelling :-) ) for Western countries, and the benefits of western civilization for itself.


26 posted on 08/05/2022 7:02:42 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ealgeone

LBJ was right even though his CIA and FBI denied any KGB involvement. Again, the alphabet LE agencies were in on it.


27 posted on 08/05/2022 7:03:05 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: texas booster

ping


28 posted on 08/05/2022 7:04:02 AM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: SMARTY

Sounds pretty wild, like something that is no longer allowed.


29 posted on 08/05/2022 7:04:18 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: IYAS9YAS

The Russians have long spent lavishly on both propaganda and subversion. John F. Kennedy loved Ian Fleming’s Bond books but he failed to see SOME of the Russian influences around him. Kennedy did see others and he was very reserved in any criticisms of Joe McCarthy and any praise of Martin Luther King, Jr.


30 posted on 08/05/2022 7:05:44 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: SJackson

As with Russia and the Democrats teaming to over throw Trump. And as a side note I bet McCain’s name will resurface.


31 posted on 08/05/2022 7:06:38 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Wallace T.

You are correct again.


32 posted on 08/05/2022 7:08:47 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: SJackson

But, but, but Trump! Collusion!


33 posted on 08/05/2022 7:10:46 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: ealgeone

Yep.


34 posted on 08/05/2022 7:11:41 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SJackson
"Russian Facebook ads had nothing to do with the 2016 election, but they helped promote the hate groups behind the “mostly peaceful” race riots that changed the political trajectory of 2020."


35 posted on 08/05/2022 7:16:22 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SJackson

But . . . But Putin is the Messiah![/sarcasm]


36 posted on 08/05/2022 7:25:40 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Secularism is a fraud and a failure.)
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To: SJackson
Wow! Those Russians are really good at subversion. They must be diverting their contemporary Tolstoys, Dostoyevskys, Rachmaninoffs, Pushkins, Chekovs, Tchaikovskys, Prokofieffs, and the rest of their greatest minds into doodling around in American stuff.

I suppose that if they put their minds to it, the folks who defeated Napoleon and Hitler and created the Bolshoi could surreptitiously back antifa, sabotage Biden's economy, and make up a Trump dossier.

The Democrats and their media toadies must thing so. They manage to blame the Russians for everything!

37 posted on 08/05/2022 7:34:27 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: SJackson

As much as I admire Daniel Greenfield, I have to say this latest FIB stunt is redolent of certain fragrances that indicate the immediate proximity of certain hooved male ruminants.

From reports I read last week, they decked out in paramilitary regalia, swarmed around a residence, set off some flash-bangs, barged into that home and roughed up a few fringe characters, all based on vague accusations that the residents were associating with an alleged Russian agent. The people busted were so extreme and crazy as to be harmless. To my knowledge the “Russian Agent has not been busted, or even inconvenienced.

I think this operation was carried out as a PR stunt—to try to overcome their apparent bias against “right-wing” “domestic terrorists”.

Nice try FBI, but you’re still no more than a cadre of narcissistic, fascist wreckers. You’ll never change.
You need to disappear.


38 posted on 08/05/2022 7:42:07 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: Wallace T.

I theorize that the globalists are working with Russia and China to take down the US.


39 posted on 08/05/2022 7:42:40 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: SJackson
So apparently there was Russian "COLLUSION" on behalf of the DemocRATs?
40 posted on 08/05/2022 7:45:34 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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