Pieter Friedrich
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Investigative journalist covering ethnonationalism, transnational repression, South Asian geopolitics. Author of four books. Former Christian nationalist.
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There's a billboard truck circling Madison Square Garden. On August 29, Mohan Bhagwat — chief of India's RSS, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary — takes the stage there. In March, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended sanctioning the RSS and barring its people from this country. No American newspaper has covered it. No elected official in New York has said a word. So the truck says it instead. RSS killed Gandhi. India banned the RSS three times. The RSS guru praised Hitler's Holocaust. RSS mobs have raped nuns and burned missionaries alive. Madison Square Garden rolls out the carpet for their chief. #RSSOutOfNYC #MohanBhagwat #RSS #Gandhi #MadisonSquareGarden #Hindutva #NYC #JimDolan #MSG #HinduNationalism
Pieter Friedrich27,019 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
Tulsi Gabbard ran American intelligence for a year and a half. Before that, she was a nobody running for Congress out of Hawaii — and the money that built her career came from more than a hundred officers and members of the American wings of the RSS, India's Hindu-nationalist paramilitary organization. In January 2025, before her confirmation hearing, I sat down in the offices of the senators who would vote on her and handed them a dossier laying out the whole record. One staffer told me her intimacy with Hindutva ought to be examined from a counterintelligence perspective. The Senate confirmed her anyway, 52-48, and across the entire hearing not one senator from either party asked who built her career or who she answers to. This film lays out that record. The donors, named — Bharat Barai, now a registered foreign agent of India; Ramesh Bhutada, national vice president of the HSS, the American branch of the RSS; Mihir Meghani, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation. Ram Madhav, a national spokesman for the RSS, flying to Hawaii in 2015 to speak at her wedding and hand her a gift from Narendra Modi. Her appearance at a New Jersey temple three weeks after being named to run American intelligence, standing between India's registered foreign agent and the executive director of HAF. And it covers what the Washington Post found in June 2026 — 25,000 pages of memos, from 2011 through 2017, that scripted her: what bills to introduce, what to say on television, even her tweets. The Post found one hand on her, out of the world of the guru she was raised under. My reporting found the other. Both trace back to the same man. The RSS has been banned three times in India. In March, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended the United States sanction it. Gabbard resigned as Director of National Intelligence in May 2026, effective June 30. None of this was ever examined. #TulsiGabbard #RSS #Hindutva #DNI #Modi #HinduNationalism #Intelligence #USCIRF #WashingtonPost #ScienceOfIdentity #ChrisButler #HAF #HSS #Counterintelligence #Congress
Pieter Friedrich59,805 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
On August 29, the chief of India's RSS speaks at Madison Square Garden — the same arena where 22,000 Nazis rallied in 1939. In March, a US federal commission recommended sanctioning the RSS and barring its people from this country. Not one American newspaper has covered it. Sign the petition to Zohran Kwame Mamdani the Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Tag The New York Times and ask them to cover #RSSOutOfNYC.
Pieter Friedrich12,851 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Why is US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bethany Poulos Morrison meeting Indian paramilitary RSS at Hudson Institute today? The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is a Hindu nationalist paramilitary. The US government’s own USCIRF recommended sanctions against it fifty days ago, on March 4, 2026. Today, a sitting US State Department official is scheduled to share a Hudson Institute panel with Ram Madhav — a member of the RSS National Executive. Who at Department of State authorized this? Secretary Marco Rubio? Hudson Institute
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RSS’s Ram Madhav Runs from Questions About Rape, Immolation, and Massacre Outside Hudson Institute Ram Madhav, president of the India Foundation and member of the RSS National Executive, walked out of Hudson Institute today after speaking on an American policy panel with a sitting US State Department official. I asked him on camera — about the RSS’s record, and about his presence in the United States. About the RSS’s record: — What do you have to say about the RSS burning Christians alive? — What do you have to say about the RSS gang-raping Muslim women? — What do you have to say about the RSS massacring Christians and Muslims in India? — What do you have to say about the RSS lynching people for eating beef? — What do you have to say about the RSS raping Christian nuns? And about his activity on American soil: — Why are you in America, Mr. Madhav? — What is your agenda in this country? — What are you attempting to influence in American politics? — Who are you meeting with? — Are you reporting it? He said nothing. He got in the car. He drove off. With him: Vijay Chauthaiwale, BJP Head of Foreign Affairs. And Adapa Prasad, the BJP’s FARA-registered foreign agent in the United States. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is a Hindu nationalist paramilitary founded in 1925. It has been banned three times by the Indian government — after Gandhi’s assassination, during the Emergency, and after the Babri Masjid demolition. On March 4, 2026, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended the RSS be sanctioned by the US government. Fifty days later, Hudson Institute put the RSS’s General Secretary on a Washington stage. Ram Madhav was there as the co-panelist with a sitting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bethany Poulos Morrison. Hudson Institute is a US tax-exempt 501(c)(3), subsidized by the American public. Its Washington offices sit four blocks from the White House. It has been in a formal thirty-month partnership with the India Foundation — led by the son of India’s National Security Adviser, its board including sitting Indian government ministers, its president a member of the RSS National Executive. The Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and the congressional committees with jurisdiction over foreign influence and tax-exempt organizations have a responsibility to examine this partnership. USCIRF did its job on March 4. The question today is whether the rest of the American government will do theirs. Filmed outside 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC at Hudson Institute headquarters.
Pieter Friedrich87,274 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
As we protested Modi near White House, Utsav Chakrabarti of VHP-America (US wing of India’s militant VHP) showed up to snoop & take pictures of protesters, so I asked him why he was there. @ootzchakra, are your pics for Indian embassy? Indian intelligence? Who? #ModiNotWelcome
Pieter Friedrich595,610 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Information for the masses which, if digested with empathy, may save the lives of many in days to come.
Pieter Friedrich330,098 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
The US government knows how Christians in Manipur are being slaughtered, but refuses to act. As violence skyrockets, across India, why is even the American Church asleep to the persecution of Indian Christians? It's past time to wake up & speak on behalf of Indian Christians.
Pieter Friedrich203,839 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
The Coalition of Hindus of North America presents itself as a civil rights group. Its leadership has documented ties to India's Hindu nationalist movement and a registered foreign agent of India's ruling party. CoHNA built an operation in Maple Grove in 13 months — securing the police chief, a council member, and a state senator. The council deserved to know who they stood with. #HinduNationalism #CoHNA #MapleGrove #Minnesota #Hindutva #Modi #CityCouncil #Hinduphobia
Pieter Friedrich36,793 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
The Modi regime is silent, but so too is our Biden administration here in America. Yet we will not be silent. We will stand up, speak out, & scream for the sake of those who are being slaughtered in #Manipur & for the sake of the survivors. #StandWithKukiWomen #ManipurViolence
Pieter Friedrich191,650 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Before Pakistan slid into "military rule with a civilian facade," India, the world's largest democracy, was heading towards fascism under the reign of the Nazi-inspired RSS paramilitary. Imran Khan (now jailed for 500 days) called the RSS out at the UN in 2019. #FreeImranKhan
Pieter Friedrich117,697 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
We are calling for our own US government to stand up, and speak out, and put a halt to this ongoing massacre – slaughter of Christians in the streets of Manipur – before it is too late. Before the violence gets out of control and spreads beyond the borders of Manipur.
Pieter Friedrich144,136 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Manipur is burning. Kuki-Zomi tribal Christians are under attack. Yet #Manipur's state govt is complicit, the central govt in Delhi is silent & our own US govt is more concerned with turning a profit than protecting the lives of innocent people. So what of the Church in America?
Pieter Friedrich137,630 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
On May 24, 2026, a car rally assembled outside Rakhi Israni's Excel Test office in Fremont to oppose her run for Congress in California's 14th District. Israni is not an ordinary candidate, and the speakers came to say why. She has served as Joint General Secretary of the VHPA, the American wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and as Legal Director of HinduPACT, a VHPA initiative, helping build the organizational infrastructure of the Hindu supremacist movement in the United States over the course of decades. Her campaign has drawn $351,954 from out-of-state donors tied to that same network, which raises the question the rally put plainly: is she running for the people of California, or for the politics of the RSS? This video is that question, in their words. #RakhiIsrani #CA14 #RSS #VHPA #HinduPACT #Hindutva #HinduNationalism #Fremont #BayArea #TransnationalRepression #ForeignInfluence #Congress2026
Pieter Friedrich19,274 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
When BJP worker #PraveshShukla pissed on a tribal man, on camera, his atrocious behavior was obviously an extreme departure from the norm in Modi’s “New India.” His act was nothing more than an aberration. Admittedly, there have been a few other "aberrations" in recent days....
Pieter Friedrich132,505 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Speech in Ro Khanna's district: For Manipur, for the Kuki-Zomi people, for my Christian brothers and sisters who are being slaughtered: I will kneel, in pain, for Manipur. I will throw dust on my head, in lamentation, for Manipur. I will tear my clothes, in anguish, for Manipur. And then I, and we, in solidarity, will stand up and speak out. #ManipurHorror
Pieter Friedrich126,700 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren