GOING ROGUE
Terror Finance at the State Department and USAID: Sam Westrop, Focus on Western Islamism, Feb. 1, 2025 — The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.
WATCH: Joe Rogan Experience #2272 – Mike Benz, YouTube, Feb. 12, 2025 — Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free speech watchdog organization dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. http://www.foundationforfreedomonline… [Mike Benz has been monitoring USAID for decades – Ed.]
Analysis: USAID and George Soros’ Foundation Bankrolled a News Outlet That Spurred the First Trump Impeachment: Tyler O’Neill, Daily Signal. Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with the Open Society Foundations, the funding network established by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros, to bankroll a news organization that attacks conservatives and seems to have inspired the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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Foreign Funding of Judicial-Reform Protests Spurs Knesset Legislation: David Isaac, JNS, Feb. 18, 2025
Terror Aid Vs US Aid: Dismantling USAID Hands Victory to Qatar – Opinion: Amine Ayoub, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 18, 2025
At USAID, Funding for Terror-Tied Groups and Internal Hostility Toward Israel Goes Back Years: Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, Feb. 10, 2025
How USAID Shipped Bags of Hundred Dollar Bills to the Taliban: Daniel Greenfield, Gatestone Institute, Feb. 18, 2025
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
Report Prompts Allegations of ‘Vast’ USAID Funds for Hamas: Canaan Lidor, JNS, 12, 2025 — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday accused the United States Agency for International Development of providing “vast and secret” funding for Hamas following new revelations about USAID’s practices vis-à-vis Israel and the Palestinians.
Major Exposé Reveals the Money Machine Behind Israel’s 2023 Protests: Gidon Dokow/ Makor Rishon, Israel Hayom, Feb. 17, 2025 — An unprecedented sum of 120 million shekels ($33.8 million) directly funded the campaign and protest demonstrations against the judicial reform in 2023, with the entire amount channeled through a single nonprofit organization.
USAID’s Samantha Power: From Journalist to Global Power Broker—Without Accountability: Charlton Allen, American Thinker, Feb. 14, 2025 — Samantha Power’s tenure as head of USAID was just the latest chapter in a meteoric rise that defies traditional foreign policy credentials.
The Dismantling of a Malevolent Empire: Melanie Phillips, JNS, Feb. 13, 2025 — In the past couple of weeks, devastating information has erupted into the public domain detailing the malign activities of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Trump’s USAID Freeze Won’t Give Terrorists a Free Pass: Tom Rogan, Unherd, Feb. 16, 2025 — There is currently significant disquiet in the American military and intelligence