#Myanmar’s exiled #media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid. “Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption & war crimes fear for their future after #USAid cuts.” | Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/donald-trump-usaid-funding-cuts-myanmar-impact-journalists
#Trump’s Halted #AgentOrange Cleanup Risks Poisoning Local Residents. “Diplomats in #Vietnam warned…that halting #USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health & relations with a key strategic partner in #Asia. Workers were…cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill…when…#Rubio…halted all foreign aid funding. The shutdown left exposed open pits of soil contaminated with #dioxin…” | ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk
Forget #autopen: even President Fragile Ego Tinyhands knows that's bullshit. It's a distraction. This administration is:
Killing children and adults in the 100s of 1000s by terminating #USAID's work with #AIDS patients overseas
Turning its back on America's allies while cuddling up to #Russia, a throwback #fascist regime with expansionist ambitions and #nuclearweapons
Abandoning heroes who courageously worked with American troops in #afghanistan leaving them to die at the hands of the #Taliban
Stranding #refugees who'd already been promised a place in America after deep #security and #medical vetting, even pulling them off of planes as they headed to the US
Treating #veterans as disposable while destroying the administrative state (about 1/3 of whose employees are vets) that keeps us all safe
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#Amerika #RedDon #immigration #SIVs #ruleoflaw #fascism #impeach47 #deportElon
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Trump and the tools of the old world order
An example of this is The United States Agency for International Development (#USAID) which was presented as a humanitarian force for economic and social development worldwide. However, its origins and operations paint a different much darker path, of geopolitical manoeuvring and #neoliberal hegemony over the last 40 years. Now, with the hard shift to the right, USAID is being gutted, alongside other long-standing institutions of the U.S. "liberal" global order. Origins and the Cold War […]https://hamishcampbell.com/trump-and-the-tools-of-the-old-world-order/
I’m head of an #NGO in #Kenya. The shutoff of #USAID support has been devastating
Thousands of patients I work with are already suffering
#politics #ForeignAid #Healthcare #Medicine #CFKAfrica https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/15/usaid-shutdown-kibera-kenya-cfk-africa-hiv-tuberculosis-health-care-jobs/
Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/16/chihombori-quao-usaid-was-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-in-africa
"Former African Union ambassador to the US says US government’s aid agency had a ‘major meddling agenda’ across Africa."
"Chihombori-Quao tells host Steve Clemons that USAID doesn’t have much to show for its decades of education and healthcare projects in Africa and often destabilised countries under the guise of environmental, human rights or social justice agendas."
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D.: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
KEWL
NEWS
Last month I made some rough estimates comparing murders at the hands of Hitler, Pol Pot, and TrumpMusk. Now Atul Gawande, "until recently a senior leader at USAID," brings a more informed estimate.
My guesses were too high. Maybe we won't surpass the Holocaust, but "only" the Cambodian genocide. Of course, this is just USAID. Add up all the other foreign and domestic deaths and we could be a contender.
"Donating to one of these funds can be a way to resist the [United States] administration’s “America First” ethos."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/403983/usaid-foreign-aid-cuts-where-to-donate
“On Tuesday, remaining staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) received an email under the name of acting executive secretary Erica Carr at USAID telling them to shred or burn agency records, despite strict laws about the preservation of federal documents.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 12, 2025
#usa #usaid #donaldtrump #ericacarr
USAID’s demise raises fears for millions of lives across Global South
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/across-global-south-usaids-demise-raises-fears-of-malaria-tb-resurgence
"Many will die..." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/many-will-die-un-aid-chief-warns-of-fallout-as-humanitarian-relief-cut
#USAID #ForeignAid #HumanitarianRelief
"Here’s the big question: As Trump takes the wrecking ball to the old version of American foreign policy, what does he intend to construct in its place? His career shows little evidence of strategic thinking."
~ David Ignatius
#Musk #Trump #destruction #USAID #NATO #Europe #Putin
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/11/trump-new-world-order-america-russia-china/
"In a span of only 50 days, President Trump has done more than any of his modern predecessors to hollow out the foundations of an international system that the United States painstakingly erected in the 80 years since it emerged victorious from World War II. …
But perhaps the more remarkable thing is that Mr. Trump is eroding the old order without ever describing the system he envisions replacing it with."
~ David Sanger
#Musk #Trump #destruction #USAID #NATO
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-50-days-foreign-policy.html
"Toddlers have a very high risk of dying
."
The St Dept was supposed to issue waivers to programs deemed life-saving in order for them to continue their work, but the Trump admin’s implementation of the funding freeze/arbitrary selection of programs to CXL have left program WKRs in unfathomable situations: NGOs: owed Ms for work already completed, forcing some to lay off employees.
H & I NGO: US govt currently owes $19M for svcs cmpl in 2024.
#USAID #USPol #DOGE #Rubio https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-cut-off-funds-for-severely-malnourished-toddlers-usaid/
. Just another form of censorship. 
Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents
#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #USAID #USArchives #rebellion
From AP.com: Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents
Keep ‘em coming
BREAKING: Unions representing federal workers file an emergency motion to block the #Trump administration from illegally destroying classified #USAID records. - Democracy Docket https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/groups-court-stop-trump-destroy-usaid-documents/
"Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning."
-E Higgins
The Trump-Musk admin is operating like the mob, but in the open, defying the law. Democratic leaders should inform the public as to their brazenness & contempt for the #Constitution.
What's more, #Musk & others in the admin are proud to defund an agency that saves lives around the world. They're sadists. Children are dying bc med treatments, meds, food... are being withheld, intentionally.
#USAID #Illegal #Courts #DOGE #Trump #USPol
"ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at #USAID: Empty the safes with the class. & personnel records & then ...
"Shred as many docs first, & reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.
The email came from from the agency's acting exec sec. I asked K McClanahan, a natsec ATTY. "Classified records are still fed records. He just filed an unauthorized disposition complaint with NARA..."
-B Murphy
#Lawless #Musk #Trump #DOGE #USPol
