Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘gladiator school’ for nationalists in an Italian former monastery where he will lecture on the media to bolster Europe’s right-wing
- Steve Bannon recently spoke to CBS News about his developing ‘gladiator school’ for European right-wing nationalists, giving cameras an inside look
- The Academy of the Judeo-Christian West is being created in the Trisulti Charterhouse, an 800-year-old monestary in the village of Colleperdo, Italy
- The creation of the school was announced in June of 2018, sparking protests
- Other than Bannon, the school’s funders have been kept a secret
- Bannon said the academy will teach the foundational tenants of the Judeo-Christian West and give them tools to become ‘honey badgers’ in modern media
Right wing activist Steve Bannon announced the creation of his Academy of the Judeo-Christian West back in June of 2018
Former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has given an inside look into his developing European ‘gladiator school’ where he wants the continent’s current and future generation of right-wing nationalists to hone their skills as culture warriors.
Bannon, 65, has been campaigning across Europe, helping to cultivate its populist movements.
He announced the creation and location of his Academy of the Judeo-Christian West back in June of 2018.
The school is being developed inside the Trisulti Charterhouse, an 800-year-old medieval monastery in the rural hilltop region of the village of Colleperdo, about 43 miles east of Rome.
Other than Bannon, the identities of those funding the school have been kept a secret.
The project sparked protests from local activists in December.
Bannon told CBS News that the new school, called the Academy of the Judeo-Christian West, will be a ‘modern gladiator school’ that teaches the foundational tenants of Western people.
‘It’s to give people kind of in mid-career that are looking to do something different, maybe get involved in media, maybe get involved in politics, maybe get involved in NGOs, to give them kind of the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian West,’ he said.
Bannon’s counterpart, Benjamin Harnwell, a British former political operative, is in charge of creating the academy.
Trisulti is where the monks of Trisulti once created a center for scientific research and innovation during the Middle Ages, cultivating 2,500 types of plants for medicinal purposes.
Bannon told CBS News in February that his Academy of the Judeo-Christian West will be a ‘modern gladiator school’ that teaches the foundational tenants of Western people.
The school is being developed inside the Trisulti Charterhouse, an 800-year-old medieval monestary in the rural hilltop region of the village of Colleperdo, about 43 miles east of Rome
Trisulti is where the monks of Trisulti once created a center for scientific research and innovation during the Middle Ages
The monks of Trisulti cultivated 2,500 types of plants for medicinal purposes at the monestary
Harnell said the school’s name was chosen specifically by Bannon and that the scholastic center will have a specific tangible purpose.
‘My hope for Trisulti is that it will go from being a laboratory for herbs and herbal knowledge and that it will be a laboratory for ideas,’ Harnell said.
‘It’s not a case of learning for learn’s sake, but it’s the intention of there being a specific application within the wider ambit of the culture wars.’
Trump fired Bannon shortly after the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia ‘Unite the Right’ rally led by white nationalists, neo Nazis, and members of the Ku Klux Klan, that ended with three people dead and dozens more injured in August of 2017.
Ten months later, Bannon’s falling out with Trump led to him stepping down as head of the right-wing news site Breitbart, which he infamously dubbed the ‘platform of the alt-right’ during Trump’s rise to power.
Breitbart has since rejected Bannon’s labeling of the platform he helped found.