Alexander Reid Ross on Conspiracy, Disinformation, the Far Right and the Hard Left

This week, we spend the hour speaking with Alexander Reid Ross. Alexander is a PhD candidate in Portland State University’s Earth, Environment, Society Program, a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, and the author of “Against The Fascist Creep”, which you can get from AK Press or our affiliate Firestorm Books!

We speak about conspiracy theories, how they wind their way into some leftist approaches to critique, bleed-over between left and right anti-establishment critiques and media that hold a pro-Kremlin position, the ideas of Alexander Dugin, ways of combating disinformation and some of it’s sources. More of his writings and interviews can be found at AlexanderReidRoss.net and this article that we reference a bit is called “Fooling The Nation: Extremism and the Pro-Russia Disinformation Ecosystem”.

To hear a little more from Alexander plus a roundup of the antifascist engagement with the A2 gun rally in Richmond last Monday with our bud Mitch of Red Strings & Maroons, check out the podcast version up at https://TFSR.wtf