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Alistair P-M's avatar

In 2023 I wrote about a Kyiv Independent video report (https://open.substack.com/pub/alipmcg/p/picking-apart-emotional-storytelling) and I noted that it is funded by the OCCRP, who receive funding from USAID/NED. Nice to see some daylight shone on them.

Plenty of people still think the Kyiv Independent is independent just because of the name - but all you have to do is scratch a little at these organisations to see who's paying the piper

ChatterX's avatar

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

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IBM founder Thomas Watson, argued that the covert operations should be run exclusively through private agencies such as the major Anglo-American multinational corporations, banks, and law firms. It allows to evade FOI exposure (Freedom of Information by taxpayers, i.e. how the Gov spends their money..)

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BTW, IBM directly supplied the Nazis with technology which was used to help transport millions of people to their deaths in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka:

youtu.be/lb082pTy-Nw?t=1000

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Ross Perot’s company Electronic Data Systems performed data processing for the imperialists' puppet Shah Of Iran

Michael  Lynch's avatar

USAID is and always has been a CIA front. This is how the USA wields its political and propaganda bludgeon effectively across the globe. USAID is but one of many CIA fronts; they are multifaceted, that is how they do what they do. When the truth comes out about one sinister and illegal connection, there are dozens, probably hundreds of others that can take that place in line.

SocraticGadfly's avatar

Per Alistair, also commenting here? It's the NAFO Nazis, as I call the NAFO "Fellas" on Shitter. Speaking of, though they haven't been proven, I have little doubt the US, like Russia, China et al, funds bots on social media.

Next question, per the last graf here:

<blockquote>Just as it did in official enemy countries, USAID funds media outlets domestically in an attempt to focus stories towards official enemies and away from the U.S. and allies.</blockquote>

Does USAID or OCCRP fund Bari Weiss?