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New Face: White nationalist and leading alt-right figure Richard Spencer addresses a crowd at Texas A&M University in December.

Auburn University announced on Friday that alt-right leader Richard Spencers scheduled speech on campus would be cancelled.

The Alabama university had previously stated that while they deplore his views, the school also supports the constitutional right to free speech. But in a notice posted on their website on Friday afternoon, the administration announced that they had cancelled the event based on legitimate concerns and credible evidence that it will jeopardize the safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors.

Spencer, who had already paid $700 out of his own pocket for renting an auditorium and providing security, told The Plainsman, the Auburn student newspaper, that he was not going to allow that to happen.

Auburn is going to rue the day that they made this total bullshit decision, he said. I will not back down. I will be there. This is going to be so much bigger than they ever imagined.

He also posted a video to YouTube pledging that If Auburn University thinks that Im going to back down because they cancelled on me, that I just going to politely go away, then they dont know me at all. I will 100 percent be on Auburn Universitys campus at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18.

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Donald Trump's dropping of an 11 ton bomb on a complex of tunnels in Eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killed 92 Isis militants, according to the Afghan government.

Mohammad Radmanesh, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan ministry of defence, said:

After the bomb, when we checked the tunnels, we took out around 100 dead bodies. They all died in the bombing.

The bombing took place the week after the firing of 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles from the USS Porter and USS Ross into the Sharyat airfield in Western Homs, Syria, as a retaliation to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The strikes have been reacted to negatively by some anti-interventionist Trump supporters, given his isolationist stance on the campaign trail.

Prominent alt-right media figures were quick to criticise following the Syria strikes:

In short, "America first" seems a very,very long time ago for the American right wing.

While his approval ratings remain the worst a modern president has seen in his first few months in office, they didn't tumble as a result of the strikes - possibly because he picked up some praise from centre and left pro-interventionists for the military action.

Or perhaps noone cared enough for it to change their approval sentiment:

So what reasons do the Alt-Right suggest were behind the decision for these recent military operations by a president who repeatedly said he would reduce American operations abroad?

Rather than argue that he's listening to generals and intelligence briefings, or pivoting to curry more favour with China in North Korea, or dropping bombs to dispel notions that he's a Russian-installed President, they've gone for a more disgusting and implausible theory.

David Duke, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and white nationalist, wrote on his blog that the growing interventionist policies and the diminshing influence of Steve Bannon were evidence of a "Jewish coup":

All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner. Trump might not even know half the things they do.

Which is to be expected from a racist.

Likewise, prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer, tweeted:

On Infowars, the conspiracy theorist news website and programme, infamous blogger Mike Cernovich told host Alex Jones a slightly different explanation as to whythey both are moderating their previous ardent support of the President:

You and I are pushing back against the ground war in Syria.

It doesnt mean that we flip-flopped, it doesnt mean that we oppose Trump.

Were just saying, hey there is a negotiation going on too, even between us and the president of the United States that is how adults behave.

Either way, his approval among Republicans doesn't seem to have been drastically affected.

So while the far right Republican commentariat and white nationalists seem to hate the military interventions, the voters don't seem to care all that much.

More: Donald Trump Jr endorsed Mike Cernovich. Here are some of his tweets

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Berkeley, California, was the epicenter of the left-wing protest culture that dominated the news during the 1960s. More than 50 years later, the San Francisco has once again become ahub for demonstrators, this time of a much more violent variety. Over the weekend, hard-core supporters of President Donald Trump repeatedly clashed in the street with the leftist anarchists who call themselves antifas, an abbreviation for anti-fascists.

The clashes began in February after a mob of antifa activists showed up outside a scheduled event that was to feature former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos and began lighting objects on fire and attacking hissupporters. The violent disruptions prompted the University of California to nixthe speech. The cancellation of the event became national news after President Donald Trump weighed in on the controversy, casting the blame on the university but not the demonstrators:

Trump supporters further escalated the situation by scheduling a second rally for March 4, which featured more violence as members of the extreme alt-right movement began mingling withregular Republicans.After even bigger fights broke out at March 25 rallies in Southern California and in Philadelphia, far-right groups decided to descend upon Berkeley to protect Trump supporters.

This is just the beginning, wrotea member ofthe neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.This is a sign that we have moved into a new era in the Nazification of America. Normie Trump supporters are becoming racially aware and Jew wise. They are willing to stick up for themselves side by side with Nazis without being adverse to violence.

This pastSaturday, a pro-Trump demonstration again broke out into fisticuffs as several thousand protesters began attacking one another with almost no police seeming to be interested in dispersing the violence.Saturdays rioting featured extensive violence with both sides hurling fireworks, bottles and even bagels. At one point, a racist activist was filmed punching a female antifa demonstrator in the face.

According to Frances Dinkelspiel, a Berkeley-based news reporter, local police have an official policyofnot intervening in small physical conflicts between citizens since doing so could increase the risk of injury. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauerwas on the sceneand asked several police officers why they were doing nothing in response to the widespread violence:

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This is just the beginning: Alt-right rejoices as violent protests rock Berkeley - Salon

President Trumps Thursday bombing of Afghanistan, just a week after an airstrike on Syria, is again challenging his alt-right and white nationalist fans.

Some of the far right-wingers see the moves as evidence of a full Jewish coup sweeping the White House and are even portraying Trump himself as a sort of victim.

All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner, said David Duke, referring to Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law. Duke is a former Ku Klux Klan head and sort of elder statesman for white nationalists. Trump might not even know half the things they do.

Duke, who has been an avid Trump supported urged the president to fend off this Jewish coup which Duke saw as leading the country to war, but stopped just short of fully condemnding Trump.

If we totally abandon Trump, say he has to get impeached, who are we going to get in turn? Duke asked. Mike Pence? Hes the biggest cuck in the world.

Cuck is the shortened version of cuckservative, a racially and sexually charged neologism that was popularized by far-right supporters to deride conservatives who supposedly abandoned their true values.

Trump had a populist vision, but lacked an infrastructure to carry it out. Hes had to turn to all the same failed people and ideas, wrote Richard Spencer, the white nationalists who helped popularize the term alt-right.

One fundamental problem of Trumpism is not so much Trump himself but Conservatism, Spencer wrote on Twitter.

Spencer stopped just short of fully condemning Trump last week.

Mike Cernovich, the right-wing blogger who moves in the alt-right orbit said he would not be turning on Trump though he was opposed to what he described as the globalist inner circle which threatens Trump.

In a Friday episode of Inforwars, the right-wing conspiracy site, Cernovich discussed his disappointment with the programs host Alex Jones. Jones has been another outspoken Trump fan, but has also slightly tempered his tone.

Jones sought to cast Trumps shift in some policies as the moves of a hard negotiator not as someone who had betrayed his base.

Cernovich agreed with this characterization and said that it was similar to how some in the alt-right orbit might be pushing back against Trump right now.

The same way that you and I are pushing back against the ground war in Syria. It doesnt mean that we flip-flopped, it doesnt mean that we oppose Trump, Cernovich said. Were just saying, hey there is a negotiation going on too, even between us and the president of the United States that is how adults behave.

Jones agreed, urging viewers to not totally abandon Trump. He said that would be a childish move. By leaving the sandbox, youre not even in the game, Jones said.

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'Alt-Right' Sticks With Trump Despite 'Jewish Coup' - Forward

Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.

A report by the Atlantic Councils Digital Forensic Research Lab found that aclaim thatrecent airstrikes in Syria were a false flag operation an operation that either didnt really occur or that were conducted by a party other than the Syrian government which went viral among the alt-right actuallyoriginated witha Syrian propaganda outlet that supports the current regime andspread to a series of pro-Kremlin conspiracy websites andfake news purveyorsbefore being promoted byalt-right figures including Infowars Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich.

The report showed that key claims, quotes, and images that were initially reported by Al-Masdar, the outlet that supports Syrian President Bashar Assad, were used in reports on pro-Kremlin sites, fake news sites, and on Infowars.

In addition, the reportnotedthat, after the false flag claim was promoted by Jones and Cernovich,Twitter accounts that appear to be bots accelerated the use of hashtags about the attack, which led to the hashtag #SyriaHoax going viral. The report concluded,The Syrian regimes reaction to the chemical attack is no surprise, but what is noteworthy is the way in which the regimes response was translated rapidly and directly into coverage on alt-right websites, most obviously Infowars. From the report:

The chemical attack came at dawn, local time, on April 4. It was widely reported and provoked outrage and condemnation, triggering immediate calls for an investigation. Photographs and videos from the scene showed hideous images of dead children and footage of rescuers, including the White Helmets group, washing down victims.

The same day, website Al-Masdar News, which supports the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, published an article claiming that the story was a false flag operation.

Over the next two days, the al-Masdar piece was picked up by a number of pro-Kremlin and anti-Western sites.

It was reproduced verbatim by at least three conspiracy sites: globalresearch.ca, informationclearinghouse.info and The Lifeboat News. A number of pro-Kremlin sites known for their use of false reporting quoted it at length. These included The Duran and The Russophile (also known as Russia News Now), together with conspiracy site Investment Watch Blog.

A third group of sites wrote their own reports, but very largely followed the Al-Masdar arguments. These included 21st Century Wire and Before Its News, both of which ran a video repeating the claims and using the same imagery.

The most influential pickup came on April 5, when US-based conspiracy site Infowars ran its version of the story. Infowars is a highly influential site among the alt-right movement in the US; its leading light, Alex Jones, has over 600,000 Twitter followers.

The Syrian regimes reaction to the chemical attack is no surprise. It has consistently denied all accusations of atrocities, and accused its critics of false claims, as documented in the Atlantic Councils report Breaking Aleppo.

What is noteworthy is the way in which the regimes response, launched on a site which has repeatedly amplified Assads messaging, was translated rapidly and directly into coverage on alt-right websites, most obviously Infowars.

Conspiracy website Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones,have heavily praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent months, with Jones previouslybraggingabout praise from top Putin advisers and even Putin himself in regards tohis pro-Trump coverage. Jones alsoclaims to have talked to folks very close to the president about Trumps Syria policy. Both Jones and Cernovich, amember of the so-called alt-right, havehelped popularize numerous conspiracy theories, including the Pizzagate story that falsely claimed an underground child sex trafficking ring was run out of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.

In March, the FBI opened an investigation into Russian operatives use of bots to push pro-Trump news from far-right outlets to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and the Senate Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into Russias use of fake news to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Before Its News, one of the pro-Trump propaganda outlets mentioned in the report, and a site that Media Matters has identified as a fake news purveyor, has denied any connection between Trump and the Russian government.

Graphics by The Atlantic Councils Digital Forensic Research Lab

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