A rare and highly unusual act of deplatforming by book distributor Ingram Content Group against Arktos Publishing has raised red flags that the Alt-Right book pusher is in fact a Russian front. This comes just two days after NeoKrat suggested the same thing in a profile on Arktos's Swedish CEO Daniel Friberg.
As reported by Swedish Nazi site Frihetskamp:
The Swedish-owned book publisher Arktos has been shut down from distributor Ingram Content Group, which prints and sells their books.Ingram Content Group is the world's largest book distributor. After 13 years of cooperation, the large company now chooses to terminate its agreement with the Swedish-owned book publisher Arktos, which publishes books with traditionalist and nationalist content.In a post on its website, Arktos explains that this means that their 430 books will at least randomly not be printed anymore and that it is unclear when they will be printed again. Currently, many of the publisher's already printed books can be purchased at Adlibris and Amazon. Buying the books through these services benefits Arktos financially while ensuring that customers have access to books that may be difficult to take in in the near future.Arktos writes that they were first contacted by Ingram Content Group back in 2021, but that the book publisher then criticized the publicist's decision to shut them down and then heard nothing more about the case. 14 months later, another person from Ingram announced that they will stop printing Arktos' books starting March 25 this year.
This is a rather odd piece of censorship for a publisher that churns out dull tomes by Evola, Spengler, and Dugin, and may only be happening in the wake of the Ukrainian War, which has seen a gently escalating campaign against Kremlin-aligned "soft-power" assets.
The likely scenario here is that Western Deep State agencies have been aware of Arktos's pro-Kremlin ties for some time, and, with the heightened security situation created by the war, have decided to "give the hint" to senior Ingram Content Group executives. The pattern of this deplatforming is thus also an indirect confirmation of the idea that Arktos was always part of a Kremlin op.
Typical Arktos customer
Referenced at Global Network on Extremism and Technology: in 'Arktos 2.0': Deplatforming and Digital Innovation in Far-Right Publishing [archived]
Everyone who had a IQ above that of the common spud should have known since it's been a decade of promoting mostly Russian and Iranian junk, not to mention Richard Spencer who was a walking Russian Pride flag...the only surprise is that Amazon didn't ban them first.
ReplyDeleteIf I understand you, we are to believe that the Deep State has acted to protect the West from a purveyor of "dull tomes" due to the clear and present danger posed by tsundoku.
ReplyDeleteDude, where do you think memes come from? The Kremlin has an obvious interest in shaping dissident intellectual spaces to push their own disinfo, narratives, and agenda. There is also plenty of hard evidence that they have been doing just that. The only question, really, is which side are you on.
DeleteThe deep state’s main function is the protection and advancement of the petro dollar. I for one like the petro dollar because it allows us a nice level of wealth here in the US.
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