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 āfundamentalistsā pour millions of ādark moneyā into Europe, boosting the far right.
Hollywood is big, mostly white, capitalist business, so itās no surprise that its new film on Fred Hampton provides little information on Black Panther politics and history.
Almost 20 years ago, the president elected by Haitiās poor majority gave the United Nations a lesson in the meaning of democracy for historically oppressed peoples.
Liars, liars your loaded dice/tilted table theaterās on fireā But prosecutors and gas-lighting lawyers concur on Empireā¦
Rwandans around the world celebrate the life of the nationās most popular singer, apparently killed for opposing Paul Kagameās ethnic and military dictatorship, writes Ann Garrison.
This week color-blindness on the left and the Black Misleadership Class were on your minds.
