THE ALLIANCE FOR IRRESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP, CHAOS, AND GLOBAL WARMING?

Basically it's SPECTRE...

by Colin Liddell

Those with a loose-jointed, out-of-the-corner-of-our-eyes interest in the right-o-sphere, like me, will no doubt have noticed the meteoric rise of something called ARC, an acronym that supposedly stands for "the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship."

This organisation launched a Youtube channel very recently and organised a major conference in London a few days ago. It has also now apparently signed up everybody on what used to be called the "alt-light" and the "dork enlightenment," including the likes of Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, and "man of the moment" Konstantin Kisin.

So, what is going on here? Obviously ARC is very well financed and seems to be serious about achieving some kind of hegemony over the part of the political spectrum between the "far" and mainstream right.

In fact, it's rather like a much better funded, more left-wing version of the old Alt-Right Corporation that Richard Spencer tried to hook to his fast-plummeting star in 2017. Yes, remember the elusive Jorjani Persian gold that was supposed to materialise and finance everything? Instead, all that did emerge was a bit of Arktos chump-change.

Obviously whoever's behind ARC -- and I already know because this is just a rhetorical device -- has identified the dissident right / mainstream right interstice as the key leverage point to unleash acceptable "dark energy" that can then be used to distort normie politics, and is therefore making a concerted effort to infiltrate and organise this zone.

Such a strategy is a natural move to make in the extended wake of the Earth-shuddering events of 2016, when Brexit happened closely followed by Trump's "insurrection" into the GOP and the presidency. 

So, let's move on to who's actually behind this great "girding up of the loins" taking place on the near-to-far-right right. Let us, as they say, follow the money.

Basically the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is funded by the same people who are behind Britain's GB News, a channel that is happy to lose around £30 million a year, to run what looks like a hybrid of Fox News and Russia Today. 

Both the funding for GB News and ARC can be traced to Paul Marshall:

"Company records in the UK show ARC has two shareholders – the Dubai-based investment management group Legatum Ventures and the British investor and Brexiter Sir Paul Marshall."

Wikipedia:

"[GB News] is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum under the umbrella of a holding company, All Perspectives Ltd, which is headquartered in London. As of August 2022, All Perspectives Ltd was controlled by three significant shareholders, all of whom work for Christopher Chandler's Dubai-based investment firm Legatum."

Essentially ARC and GB News are owned lock, stock, and barrel by Paul Marshall and Christopher Chandler. But just who are these two billionaires who are suddenly so keen to get Jordan Peterson's message out to the world?

Paul Marshall, the man who created Russia Today 2.0 (aka GB News) 

Marshall is a major hedge fund manager who is apparently heavily invested in fossil fuels, which explains GB News's frequent attempts to counter the Green agenda:

"One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal. 

This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was announced as a new presenter on the television broadcaster on Friday.

An investigation by DeSmog in May found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action. GB News presenters have used their platforms to urge the UK to “drill, baby, drill” for more coal, oil and gas."

Whatever one thinks of fossil fuels, this shows you that whoever owns media directly influences the messages that are then sent out  by it. But what about the other big partner in the ARC/GB News takeover of the near-to-far Right? What's his game?

All roads lead back to a massive "slush" fund located in the dark money capital of Dubai:

"Paul Marshall, who is one of these partners, is also a lead investor in the startup broadcaster GB News, holding a 45 percent stake. Marshall, estimated to be worth £800 million, reportedly invested £10 million in GB News when it first launched two years ago. In August 2022, he joined the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group in a £60 million capital injection and buyout of GB News’s other major investor, Discovery." 

Legatum was founded by a shady and rather publicity-adverse character called Christopher Chandler and his brother Richard. The Chandlers are even more interesting than Marshall. While Marshall is based in London and subject to some oversight, the Chandlers' money is a lot darker. But where do Chandler's billions come from? Quite simply Russia, where Chandler and his brother Richard were effective business partners with Vladimir Putin, as reported by the Daily Mail, which caught the Chandlers in a lie:

"The Goodness of Business, a pamphlet published last month by Richard Chandler’s Clermont Group, states that after he and Christopher placed their own director on the board, they teamed up with Putin to launch a management coup at Gazprom. A separate document, an investor profile of Gazprom, tells how [the Chandlers' company Sovereign] ‘assured the Presidential administration’ it could rely on its support to reform the energy giant. It led to a modernising drive which turned the company into the £37 billion energy giant it is today. The revelation is a further embarrassment for Christopher Chandler..."

Richard and Christopher Chandler, actual Putin oligarchs...according to Richard

Once again, we see the Dissident Right, a fulcrum for untested and radical ideas, being polluted by the inorganic intrusion of an outside agenda that has nothing to do with honest political debate.

But what exactly is this polluting agenda?

In the case of Paul Marshall it seems clear -- a simple financial motif to promote the use of fossil fuels (and fuck the planet!) -- but what about Chandler? Why is he as interested in 'heating up' the "Gammon classes," who make up GB News's viewership with crapulous populism? Is this part of a wider operation to polarise British society. 

Is the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship simply an Orwellian term that means its exact opposite?

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).