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.
āGeorge Zimmerman is no more provably racist in a U.S. court than most white Americansā ā which is why a Justice Department action will get nowhere. Whites consider it āreasonableā to believe in theā¦
The Democratic Party is terrified of liberal reformism and will not countenance left leaning democrats being in a position to change their plans for austerity and neoliberal orthodoxy.
āSo the calypso ceases to be entertainment on a trivial level and becomes a vehicle whereby the society is going back and searching for its soul.ā
The protests spreading across Spain, India, France, Chile, and other countries share a common root in the global neoliberal order of austerity, privatization, and deregulation.
Under the guise of a farcical āpilot zoneā project to restore Lebanonās sovereignty, Israel is pursuing a scorched-earth strategy while entrenching its occupation.
