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The Administration's Pointless Assault on USAID Is Decimating the Independent Global Press

The Trump administration's pause of USAID funding has caused major crises among hundreds of supposed independent media outlets, which rely on U.S. Support to operate.
In Ukraine, it was expressed that the USAID freeze is a greater threat to journalism than the COVID-19 pandemic or the Russian invasion.
A survey indicated that 60% of budgets for 20 Belarusian media outlets depend on U.S. Funding, highlighting a global reliance on USAID.
Responses to the funding cuts reveal that many media organizations worldwide are at immediate risk of shutting down or laying off staff.

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Esquire

The Administration's Pointless Assault on USAID Is Decimating the Independent Global Press

Of course, if it brings together Russian kleptocrats, Central American autocrats, and the mullahs in Tehran, it sounds like the same kind of foreign policy triumph that the president is seeking in Ukraine.

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ronpaulinstitute.org

USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded 'Independent' Media - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their home countries. In late January, President Trump—along with help from the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk—began implementing sweeping changes to the United States Agency for I…

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Orinoco Tribune

Trump Repurposes USAID to Technocrats and Uses 'Ceasefire' to Legalize Full Zionist-US Takeover of Palestine

By Fiorella Isabel – Feb 13, 2025 I must have fallen down Alice’s tunnel (sadly sans psychedelics), because I’ve been sent back to 2003 during the War in Iraq, except this time the people who opposed it are cheerleading George, I like to draw stick-figures, W. Bush, as a hero. At least that’s what the “mainstream alternative media,” algorithmically pushed by Elon and other oligarchs say. Those who gate-keep analysis and journalism as if it’s o…

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scheerpost.com

USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded ‘Independent’ Media

From Ukraine to Cuba, news outlets worldwide are suddenly begging for cash—because their “independent journalism” was actually paid for by Washington all along.

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