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.
People are waking people up to the fact that the US state and government does not belong to them but to a capitalist class that is only looking out for itself.
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of âdiversity and inclusion.â
This week the Democratic Party and the failures of US healthcare were on your mind.
The global citizenry shows increasing apathy towards each otherâs social and political conditions.
Chicagoâs Ujimaa Medics bring a racial justice and cultural specificity lens to community health care through mutual aid.
