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.
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old âyellow perilâ canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China.
AOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance.
The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for suppl
