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.
President Bola Tinubuâs lifting of fuel subsidies and liberalization of currency trade has pleased the IMF and increased hunger in Africaâs most populous country.
Incarcerated People in Texas Weather Extreme Heat in non-Air Conditioned Prisons.
We revisit BARâs 2017 analysis of the protection afforded Rwandaâs Paul Kagame by the human rights industrial complex and continue our discussion with BARâs poet in residence about his upcomingâŚ
Camila Escalante joins to discuss Ecuadorâs intrusion into Mexicoâs embassy in Quito and the arrest of Ecuadorâs former Vice President who had been given asylum there.
We revisit a discussion with Ann Garrison and the late Glen Ford about U.S. and human rights industrial complex support for Kagame in 2017.
