The Kremlin media happily publish reports from the "mass demonstration" that took place in Washington. According to RIA Novosti, the March of Fury Against the War Machine was organized by the Libertarian Party.
“… about a hundred people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. Protesters hold banners against "Nazi support in Ukraine" as well as Russian flags. One of the protesters is holding a poster with the main idea of the article by journalist Seymour Hersh: “Biden blew up the Nord Stream.
The agency also lists the names of some of the speakers at the rally: former Rep. Ron Paul, "author, actress, former Senate aide" Tara Reid, "retired colonel, diplomat Anna Wright."
That's just to oppose the "Nazis in Ukraine", it seems, the real American Nazis have gathered. For example, Matthew Heimbach, a white supremacist who advocated neo-Nazi ideology, was spotted at the event.
In 2018, Heimbach served as director of public relations for the National Socialist Movement (NSM). True, in 2020 he declared that he was no longer a nationalist, but a National Bolshevik. But just months earlier, the activist had helped launch the National Socialist Benevolent Coalition to help raise money for James Alex Fields, the alt-right activist who killed anti-fascist Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in 2017. During the same period, on a neo-Nazi podcast, he proclaimed "God bless Dylan Roof," a white supremacist who murdered nine worshipers at an African Methodist church in Charleston. He also referred to terrorist groups such as the Atomwaffen Division as "our good friends".
Former Ohio National Guard soldier Shandon Simpson is also believed to be involved in the Atomwaffen. In June 2020, investigators found out that the soldier was subscribed to a Telegram channel called RapeWaffen Division. The channel's authors supported the rape of female police officers, posted images of Confederate battle flags and swastikas, and called white women who have children from men of other races "traitors." On Twitter, Simpson tried to recruit fascists to the RapeWaffen Division, used an image of Nazi Party leader Richard Walter Darre as a profile photo, and celebrated the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's death. “I pay tribute to him as a martyr who died in Berlin, completely unwilling to capitulate. In memory of the great leader of the German people. Rest in peace Fuhrer,” Simpson tweeted.
The alleged founder of RapeWaffen has repeatedly stated that the group has split from the Atomwaffen Division.
Heimbach and Simpson had announced plans to attend an "anti-war" rally the previous day, with Simpson claiming that Heimbach had relationships with "some of the people involved" in organizing the rally.
Noteworthy is the list of speakers at the Fury March. Ron Paul is a conservative Republican covid dissident who denies global warming. He was also featured in the scandal – a number of newsletters he authored, issued between 1988 and 1994, contained racist and homophobic statements – such as "race war" conspiracy theories. Paul is a longtime fan of Vladimir Putin and supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
As for Tara Reid, she is the woman who accused candidate Joe Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential campaign. However, she turned out to be a professional scammer who repeatedly changed names and extorted money from acquaintances. In addition, Reed repeatedly misrepresented information about herself and her life experiences, including lying under oath and in legal proceedings. In 2018, she wrote several Medium posts in support of Putin, which she later deleted in 2020 when they surfaced following her allegations against Biden.
Retired US Army Colonel and former State Department official Ann Wright retired from the service in 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq and has since opposed any involvement of Washington in foreign conflicts. In August 2014, she was among those who signed an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging Merkel to be suspicious of U.S. intelligence over alleged Russian incursions into eastern Ukraine. The authors assured that the war in Donbass is “federalists opposed to a coup in Ukraine” and “enjoying significant support from local residents, partly as a result of shelling of large settlements by government artillery,” and Washington should heed the demands of Moscow, which is only opposed to Ukraine's membership in NATO.
Some of the speakers at the rally are former and current RT employees: Dan Cohen (who The Insider already wrote about), Max Blumenthal (regularly appears on RT and Sputnik, his wife Anya Parampil is a former producer and correspondent for RT). Also, RT columnist Scott Ritter, who served time for pedophilia, was announced as a speaker, but after journalists paid attention to this, his name disappeared from the list of speakers.
The rest of the speakers are conspiracy theorists who mostly promote far-right ideas: supporters of the anti-Semite, racist and homophobe Lyndon LaRouche, followers of a conspiracy theory called "Pizzagate" (according to which, the emails of the chairman of the campaign headquarters, Hillary Clinton, contained coded messages that connected high-ranking officials of the Democratic Party US with a child trafficking ring under the guise of a pizzeria), Holocaust deniers, etc.