by Don Via Jr, The Free Thought Project:
The recent revelations are but the latest in a decades long history of media manipulation and perception management.
The global corporate media apparatus is in panic mode. Following President Donald Trump’s inauguration day executive order freezing all US foreign aid for 90 days awaiting review, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has since been placed on the chopping block. Citing alleged fraud and waste, Trump and Musk aim to shut down the agency and merge it into the US State Department. The move has sparked the ire of pundits and officials the world over.
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But what is USAID and why is the media in such a frenzy about it? Founded in 1961 by President John F Kennedy, the original aim of USAID was focused on coordinating foreign assistance at the height of the Cold War, charged with administering economic aid and development assistance in key regions of US interest throughout the world, involved in fighting poverty and disaster relief as well as civil affairs. The agency has since become one of the worlds largest aid organizations, administering billions in aid across the globe, hence the backlash from those who say the cuts being made will have profoundly negative impacts to vulnerable populations.
However, underneath the veneer of a humanitarian aid organization USAID’s role in serving the interests of the US political ruling class goes far deeper, serving as a clandestine means of funding a slew of nefarious activities.
As reported extensively by outlets such as The GrayZone and MintPress News, funding from USAID working as a front for US intelligence agencies has been crucial to facilitating covert regime change operations the world over. From continuing Reagan-era Cold War policies in Latin America funding anti-Sandinista opposition in Nicaragua, and coup attempts in Venezuela, unrest in Bolivia, election medaling in Ecuador, sabotage in Cuba, and beyond. In addition to funding the proxy war in Ukraine, upheaval in the Balkans, and most recently propping up the terrorist takeover in Syria, the agency has been hard at work funneling dark money through NGO’s and other cutouts to support every shady subversion operation the CIA can cook up.
To put it mildly, USAID is one of the foremost organizations responsible for pro-western anti-democratic destabilization campaigns in the entire world. More aptly, as James Corbett characterizes it; USAID serves as a Trojan Horse for the NGO complex that is an extension of the US deep state.
As a part of the subterfuge a large portion of this funding went to paying for propaganda assets in target regions around the world, as Wikileaks recently pointed out “USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 “media” NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.”
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