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.
Ben Passmore is the author of the graphic novel: âBlack Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance,â published by Pantheon Books. Ben Passmore is an award-winning political cartoonist who hasâŚ
The latest interference from the United Nations ensures that Haitiâs âgangâ problem will continue and that its cause, an illegitimate governing structure brought about by the UN, U.S. and theirâŚ
âWe, the people, charge genocide.â
In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the worldâs most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again.
"enemy within" is the latest from BAR's Peat-in-Residence.
