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A response to Drew's criticism

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 Since publishing an expose detailing a broad pattern of collaboration with the violent far-right, antifascists on Twitter have taken to debating background details instead of the actual scoops of the blog post.  This detail is with regards to the connection between Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Konstantin Malofeev which has been framed as a connection to Aleksandr Dugin.  I am puzzled as to why Drew focused on this specifically, or how anything stated regarding this constitutes a discrediting "error." Given the value I place on Drew's work, I would like the opportunity to clear up Drew's confusion on the matter and encourage them to focus on the core findings from the expose. 1)   Cosmin Dzsurdzsa's interests in Aleksandr Dugin and "esoteric traditionalism" as indicated on Dzsurdzsa's VKonkate page are not meaningful on their own.  However, it is meaningful when properly contextualised, as the content of Cosmin Dzsurdzsa's employer at the time, Russia In...
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The Post Millennial: The Tories' Newest Mainstream Propaganda Outlet Collaborates With Violent Bigots

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                        On August 22, 2019, Emma McIntosh of the National Observer published an expose on the editor of the Post Millennial at the time, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa.   Dzsurdzsa is the husband of the unsuccessful far-right campus activist and fellow True North Centre contributor Lindsay Shepherd. McIntosh correctly reported on Dzsurdzsa’s past work for the neo-Nazi Russia Insider .   After that stint, Dzsurdzsa worked with Alexander van Hamme as a correspondent for the white nationalist website Free Bird Media.   Later work published to Anti-Racist Canada would demonstrate that Dzsurdzsa himself was keenly interested in the neo-Nazi ideology of Aleksandr Dugin, which informs the editorial stance of Russia Insider.   Both Dugin and Russia Insider have a dependent financial relationship with the sanctioned oligarch Konstantin Malofeev . Moreover, that same work un...
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