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.
A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Fasoâs Ibrahim TraorĂŠ, resisting the Westâs dictates, but nothing could be further from theâŚ
Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places donât break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.âs mayor is theâŚ
The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about powerâŚ
Malcolm X didnât just fight for Black liberationâhe waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than everâŚ
"A few lines for the Poet Ojenke..." is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
