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.
Mass incarceration robs and destabilizes Black communities, and doesnât make anyone safter.
Venezuelan socialists and Russian intelligence are blamed for Americaâs ills, leaving corporate power, endless wars, austerity and deindustrialization blameless.
A âDelinquent Dozenâ companies have vastly increased fortunes for their owners and CEOs but provided inadequate protection for their workers.
After 49 years as a Black Panther Party political prisoner, Jalil Muntaqim was released on parole, only to be rearrested for attempting to register to vote in his hometown of Rochester, New York.
Abu Jamal âhas had to endure this second-by-second assault on his soul for 38 years,â said banned football quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
