American money and American moral and political support has been really important in creating this backlash in Europe against feminism, LGBT rights and basic equality. The reason we started looking at this was it didn't add up how much these groups were able to organize, and the size of these organizations, based on the size of the bases they could reach when they started. A lot of these groups seemed to suddenly spring up. That a lot of their funding is coming from the US explains that.
Journalist Adam Ramsay traces money fueling Europe's far right back to Christian fundamentalists in the US - as a way to create new political spaces within Europe for the far right to advance against gay and trans rights, immigration and abortion, and as cover for a global reactionary movement in service of oligarchs on both sides of the Atlantic.
openDemocracy released the report Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian âfundamentalistsâ pour millions of âdark moneyâ into Europe, boosting the far right.
Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature âconservationâ in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
If independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety.
Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history.
Who tolt us âbout an unknown 19th of Juneâ who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who? Who say Douglass alive and doinâ good workâ who turn the War House into a grifter perk? Who?
Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy.
