Seems to apply to ZNet, too
A functioning left would understand this.
Many of them, too
It’s amazing Mike Albert runs this crap — defending USAID??
The purpose of USAID has been to enable the U.S. to effect regime change in other countries.
Trump is not getting rid of it. But no one who is even minimally on the left should be defending USAID. Yet here is Democrat-in-Chief, Mike Albert, defending the POS organization via his website, through this effort by Stephen J. Lyons1:
This past Sunday the DOGE bullies demanded entry into the US Agency for International Development (USAID) secure area to gain access to classified materials such as personnel files and security systems. That access was denied by the agency’s Director of Security John Voorhees, who was immediately put on administrative leave along with his deputy, adding to the dozens of other experienced federal civil servants purged by the Trump administration for not bending the knee to the president. Musk posted on X that USAID is “a criminal organization,” and that it is “Time for it to die.”
USAID is the largest distributor of foreign aid and comprises less than 1 percent of the U.S. budget.
Oh, pity the poor USAID and the suffering people for whom it’s been doing so much good around the world. And at such low cost to U.S. taxpayers. How could we even think of impeding its noble mission.
Lyons then writes
Is this any way to run a government where transparency is viewed as weakness and following legal precedents is seen as disloyalty? We know of such governments. Take Russia, a dissolute country of rampant corruption led by a mendacious autocrat who locks up, poisons and murders his critics, no matter in which country they reside. As with Trump 2.0 regime, the Kremlin’s halls are filled with oligarchs and Putin pleasers. Opaqueness and obsequiousness rule the day, public be damned.
Why is this redbaiting on any left-wing site? This is the kind of stuff one reads in the New York Times.
Finally, Lyons writes, “Democracy is the hallmark of everything that marks America as exceptional.”
Oh god, I think just threw up in my mouth. Mike, did you even read this article before you posted it? Or have you been collecting a check from USAID and you’re afraid you’ll be the next site to miss a payroll?