The Transatlantic Threat
European Neo-Nazism, Terrorgram Misinformation, and the UK Race Riots
issue #: 00033
On July 30, 2024, as we sat observing three genocides a quiet storm began to brew closer to home. In the United Kingdom, a violent incident would escalate into one of the most alarming chapters in Europe's recent history. Within the span of a week, nearly 60 towns and cities across the UK—Accrington, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Southampton, to name a few—were engulfed in violent chaotic riots. What transpired during those harrowing days was not just a series of violent incidents, but a meticulously orchestrated campaign of far-right terrorism, fueled by a potent mix of Neo-Nazi ideology, misinformation, and an insidious network known as Terrorgram.
This riotous logistic feat, was organised via the Neo-Nazi Terrorgram Network, a transatlantic breeding ground of racist far-right Neo Nazi hate, violence and disinformation, which posts bomb making plans and racist Far-Right Neo-Nazi rhetoric. The network, which is a proscribed terrorist network in the UK, is openly racist, violent, organised, and is spread across Europe and the US. They are known to the police and intelligence services and though proscribed as a terrorist network in the UK, they are almost never described or portrayed as violent terrorist networks in the media but rather are described with euphemisms built around the rhetoric of ‘thuggery’. But why is this and how did we get here? To understand this phenomenon, we need to take a deep dive into the narratives of the murky world of British, European and US politics. It increasingly appears that joining ourselves at the hip to the desperate flailing of the American Century at its self-defeating end, has consequences beyond what we could expect. Such a conjoining has resulted in a carefully constructed narrative fanning out onto the streets of Britain (and wider afield). Far from being an organic development, the nature of the riots suggests that the instigators were waiting for events which they could use to spark their violent agendas.
But who are they? And how did we get here?
The Rise of the Neo-Nazis and their Far Right Evangelical American Billionaires
Open Democracy published a story in July 2019, by Mary Fitzgerald the former editor-in-chief at Open Democracy and Carol Provost the former head of global investigations at Open Democracy. The story, The American Dark Money Behind Europe’s Far Right explored the role of US Far-Right Christian Conservative money, political, strategic and logistical support, in a transatlantic pan-Christian mission to shape the future of the US and Europe. Such a mission is driven by a Manifesto known as The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience, in service of which over $50 million has been pumped into Europe from 2008 to 2017, to fund legal and political campaigns and organisations, across Europe.
Money was funnelled to influence Brexit, Victor Orban’s Hungary, France’s Le Pen, the rise of the ultra-conservative far-right and to interfere with the political process and future of Europe. Our political establishments, intelligence and law enforcement services are utterly aware of their activity and do nothing to stop it. This agenda drives deep wedges of racist, anti-muslim, gender based division in our societies and positions itself to promote its attacks on women’s reproductive rights. It pushes US Christian Far Right ‘White’ identity issues and propaganda onto the European scene, in an effort to export disastrous American racial politics into Europe, you will notice that increasingly the narratives of immigration, ‘Whiteness’, Islamophobia, the threats to Western Christian Civilisation, etc. become indistinguishable across the Atlantic. This movement particularly gathered momentum during Trump's first campaign and Steve Bannon is central to it, it has continued to grow unchecked, as media editorial output becomes increasingly far right.
In 2023 The New Journal on European Criminal Law, published a paper entitled, Far Right Foreign Fighters and Ukraine: A Blind Spot for the European Union, which explores the threat of the acquisition of military training by European Neo-Nazis, however since Putin has claimed that his invasion of Ukraine is for denazification purposes, this presents a public relations disaster for NATO that they prefer to ignore. There are training camps in Europe, this movement seems intertwined with American or NATO Foreign policy, and this violent far-right has been allowed to travel unhindered to Ukraine to fight and acquire the skills on par with ISIS and other terror groups. The sheer logistic scale of the UK Race Riots seems to indicate that the Far Right is not only organised but has intelligence on the logistic limits of UK’s policing and stress tested this with the Riots. The stress tests set the trajectory - refugee hotels attacked, Immigration specialist solicitor details known and circulating - suggests that the actions have the future in mind. The question, then, is What message has been sent out thus far? The torching of refugee hotels is a frightening scenario especially when the exits are blocked and the police are overwhelmed. The attack on a Uber driver is a warning to other Uber drivers. The destruction of shops and police cars is the seed for civil disobedience. Such acts of violence are a trial run for what is coming.
Origins
Four American Billionaire Far-Right Christian families are at the forefront of this movement to swing the future of European Western Civilisation decisively to the right, with a project which began as far back as the 70’s. The main families are: Koch, Mellon Scaifes, Olins, and Bradleys. They have clear methodology:
Setup think tanks such as The Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the Mercatus Centre, etc.
Provide grants to influence the research of academics
The writing of policy and the lobbying of politicians springboard from an academic base that enables their ideas to be translated into official policy
Funding politicians who align with their agendas
Dominate the definitions of the jargon and narrative, and forcing dissenters into a reactionary discourse
Influencing media and dominating the editorial teams to create right-wing echo chambers creating public opinion influencing ecosystems.
They have conquered the American political and media establishment and now they are systematically subjugating the politics and media of Europe. Under the Conservative government in Britain this agenda was allowed to proceed unchecked. The British media has been flooded with narratives of an increasingly embattled white race or whiteness under attack, adopting agendas which reflect the demographic transformation of the US where Latin Americans are set to overtake those who identify as White in their share of the population. These narrative dynamics specific to the US are being exported into Europe. The Telegraph in Britain has had headlines such as:
Teachers will be trained to challenge ‘whiteness’ in schools: Guidance aims to encourage ‘anti-racist’ teacher training to maintain diverse educator workforce
Why is the Church of England so horrified by ‘whiteness’?: The CoE’s adoption of trendy woke jargon has become a pitiful embarrassment
Outcry as university tells staff to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem: Liverpool accused of implementing divisive policies after lecturers advised on how to diversify and decolonise history curriculum
Do you get the point?
The UK Race Riots 2024
On the 29th of July 2024 in Southport UK, three children were killed and others wounded in a stabbing attack, Neo-Nazi networks on Terrorgram swung into full force began to deliberately manufacture misinformation about the attacks, claiming that the attacks were carried out by a fictional immigrant and Islamic extremist, Ali Al-Shakati, who it was claimed recently immigrated to the UK by boat. This elicited calls to, ‘Defend our streets’, ‘let’s show them what happens when they attack us’, (regarding to the false claim of the attackers Islamic faith and inspire specifically anti-muslim responses), ‘this is what they do to our children’, messages claimed that groups were "arming themselves" in specific minority neighborhoods and the Far Right organised themselves to "bring the fight to them" and the ‘defence of British values’. By the 1st of August the judge lifted restrictions on the case and revealed the identity of the 17 year old attacker. The attacker was British born Axel Muganwa Rudakubana from Cardiff, of Rwandan parentage, it appeared that the attacker has significant mental health issues but this has not become part of the media discourse- and we really must ask ourselves why exactly this is ? This did not halt far right riots and widespread violence. Interestingly on May 7th 2024 the 14 year old black teenager Daniel Anjorin was ‘mostly’ decapitated and four others were injured in Hainault London by a rampaging swordsman, named Marcus Monzo. In both cases the media is keen to ensure that we know that the attackers are of immigrant origin or heritage, however the ‘almost’ decapitation of Daniel Anjorin sparked no comparable outrage. In fact ‘The Sun’ newspaper ran this headline Family Tributes to Sword Lad, 14. The murdered decapitated black teenager Daniel Anjorin was called the Sword Lad an example of empathetic and responsible journalism!
During the Race Riots over 100 officers were injured, 975 people were arrested and 546 charges have been brought, of which 354 persons have been charged in England and Wales with 30 people being charged in Northern Ireland. We should be aware that those charged include those protesting against the Far Right and I highlight the case of two men in Leeds who were charged for punching far-right rioters. And in a case which reveals the even handedness of the British judiciary. Judge Robert Linford, handed 24 year old Amer Walid of Plymouth, who had no previous convictions, a 20 month sentence for retaliating, to an attacking far-right mob, because, “What you should have done was rise above their simply obnoxious racism… You were capable of doing that but you didn’t, instead what you did was throw four missiles of one sort or another at the group opposite,”. I will leave you to think about the justice of this one!
And So Where Are We Going
The events of July and August 2024 have exposed the dangerous intersection of far-right extremism, social media misinformation, far-right media echo chamber manipulation, think tanks and lobbying groups and deep-seated racial tensions across the UK and Europe. What began as a tragic stabbing in Southport was the excuse to quickly escalate the situation into widespread violence, driven by organised Neo-Nazi networks exploiting public fear, prejudice and resentment. The logistical scale and coordination of the riots reveal a far-reaching influence, pointing to the disturbing reality of well-connected far-right networks across Europe and the US. As we grapple with the aftermath, it's imperative to recognize how these events are part of a larger, transatlantic strategy to reshape Western political and social landscapes. This strategy, fueled by powerful and billionaire actors, challenges the very fabric of democratic societies, pushing our societies towards fascist, racist authoritarian and divisive ideologies. The UK Race Riots of 2024 are a stark reminder of the dangers we face if such extremist ideologies continue to grow unchecked. The fight against this tide requires not just law enforcement but also a societal commitment to confronting and dismantling the structures that allow such ideologically fueled movements of hatred to flourish. When we acknowledge the interests and forces driving our society and politics in this direction we must be aware of the extent to which politicians, journalists, intelligence services are complicit. We must begin the discussions in public on the drivers, interests and goals of this American export and what it means for our future across Europe.
This is what the UK’s Minister of Security, had to say on Wednesday 24 April 2024,
The Terrorgram collective is a transnational online network of neo-fascist terrorists who produce and disseminate violent propaganda, with the aim of radicalising readers and encouraging individuals to commit acts of terrorism. The message of hatred it preaches is one of extreme white supremacism. It calls not just for death and violence but for the collapse of western democracy itself, so that the collective might build a whites-only world in its place.
Why doesn’t our media talk about this?
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I have some old saved video clips from a ‘militia member’ who explained how he was recruited and trained in Turkey. They were then smuggled into Syria in a bus under cover of night. During this same period another journalist published a story about the beginning of the Ukrainian ‘front’, and similarly reported a story identical in content and context.
It doesn’t surprise me that Hollywood makes this material easily available. They goad mankind with overtures like this.