Strengthening the climate movement requires a rethink of strategy and tactics
Veiling and Revolutions: From Algeria to Sudan
By Ouissal Harize | – (OpenDemcocracy) – With women leading revolutions in Sudan and Algeria, it is natural to wonder again, will Arab uprisings be finished by women? In his famous essay, ‘Algeria Unveiled’, Frantz Fanon (1959, p. 35) writes: ‘The way people clothe themselves, together with the traditions of dress and finery that custom […]
Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian fundamentalists boost European Far Right with Dark Money Millions
By Claire Provost and Adam Ramsay | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade, openDemocracy can reveal today. Between them, these groups have backed […]
‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’
In Europe, we’re seeing rising right-wing populism
As Trump Gets out of Syria & Afghanistan will Mercenaries & Blackwater Come In?
By Paul Rogers | – At the end of 2003 the United States-led war in Iraq was going badly wrong. It had started so well from the Pentagon’s perspective, as American troops entered Baghdad within weeks of launching the invasion in late March. The regime crumbled and a statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled. The […]
The Antisemitic Turn of the Rising Far Right ‘Alternative for Germany’ Party
The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic
Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International
By Luis Martín | – Via OpenDemocracy.net Calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise of authoritarianism represented by Donald Trump. Senator Bernie Sanders, the former US presidential candidate, and Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, are today calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise […]