Columbia Jounralism Review is worried about "independent" journalism abroad.... These funds are typically channeled through USAID’s Media Assistance Programs, Democracy and Governance Grants, and civil society initiatives.

Let's take a dive into some of these media outlets now worried about where their next paycheck will come from..... OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

💰 Funding:
• $5.5M+ from USAID & NED since 2016
• Direct funding from Open Society Foundations (George Soros)
• Partnered with U.S. State Department, UK Foreign Office, and EU-backed institutions

What they do:
OCCRP claims to investigate corruption worldwide, but their targets are overwhelmingly U.S. geopolitical rivals—while corruption in pro-NATO and U.S.-backed regimes is ignored.

🔎 Major Examples:

1. Targeting Serbia – 2020 Smear Campaign
• Ahead of Serbia’s 2020 elections, OCCRP ran a series of “investigations” into President Aleksandar Vučić, accusing him of corruption and ties to organized crime.
• Meanwhile, OCCRP ignored massive corruption in U.S.-allied Kosovo, where PM Albin Kurti was cracking down on opposition media.

2. Ukraine – Covering for Zelensky While Attacking Russia
• OCCRP played a key role in pushing anti-Russian narratives after 2014, linking Russian officials to financial scandals while shielding Ukraine’s U.S.-backed government.
• Exposed Russia’s “Laundromat” financial networks but failed to investigate how Western banks helped Ukraine launder billions in aid money.
• Panama Papers (2016): OCCRP highlighted Putin’s alleged offshore ties but covered up Ukrainian President Poroshenko’s involvement, despite clear evidence.

3. Russia & Navalny – Coordinated Attacks
• Collaborated with Alexei Navalny’s team to produce the “Putin’s Palace” documentary, which was later debunked.
• Received direct funding from USAID & NED during this period.
• OCCRP ignored U.S.-linked oligarchs in Ukraine and London, who were laundering billions through Western banks.

4. Azerbaijan & Georgia – Selective Corruption Investigations
• OCCRP exposed financial corruption in Azerbaijan, aligning with U.S. interests to weaken Baku’s ties to Russia.
• In Georgia, OCCRP’s reports always focus on attacking the ruling Georgian Dream party (which resists NATO membership) while ignoring corruption in the U.S.-backed opposition.

5. Latin America – Defending U.S. Interests
• OCCRP’s investigations in Venezuela focused solely on corruption linked to the Maduro government while ignoring opposition figures stealing U.S. “humanitarian aid.”
• No deep investigations into how CIA-backed Juan Guaidó stole $40M+ in foreign aid and funneled it to his cronies.

🇸🇾 USAID FUNNELED $15B INTO SYRIA TO OVERTHROW ASSAD

“NGOs are being used to destabilize Syria. They pretend to help, but in reality, they work for foreign intelligence services.”
— Bashar al-Assad (2018)

For over a decade, USAID, NED, and Western-backed NGOs played a central role in the Syrian war, financing opposition groups, manufacturing propaganda, and running intelligence operations under the cover of “humanitarian aid.” In 2024, after years of Western-backed subversion, sanctions, and military pressure, Assad was finally overthrown.

NGOs as a Weapon

USAID:
• Funneled $15+ billion into Syria while secretly funding opposition networks and anti-government operations.
• Bankrolled the White Helmets, a group exposed for collaborating with al-Qaeda and staging propaganda videos to justify U.S. intervention.
• Provided logistical support to opposition groups in exile, helping to create a U.S.-backed shadow government.

National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – “Civil Society” as a Cover for Destabilization:
• Financed Barada TV, an opposition media outlet based in Washington, D.C., to broadcast anti-Assad propaganda.
• Funded “pro-democracy” NGOs that later channeled resources to jihadist factions, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
• Supported exiled Syrian activists, preparing them to take power once Assad was removed.

Open Society Foundations (OSF) Soros in Syria:
• Pushed anti-Assad narratives in global media, portraying the war as a grassroots uprising rather than a Western-backed coup.
• Coordinated with U.S. intelligence-backed groups to facilitate regime change efforts.
• Advocated for mass migration policies that pressured European nations to accept millions of Syrian refugees—a crisis directly caused by the U.S.-backed war.

Assad's Efforts:

✅ 2014 – Expelled USAID-backed NGOs after exposing their financial ties to insurgents.
✅ 2016 – Revealed the White Helmets’ collaboration with jihadists, warning of Western-backed disinformation.
✅ 2018 – Publicly accused the U.K. Foreign Office and USAID of funding anti-government propaganda operations.
✅ 2023 – Secured post-war reconstruction deals with Russia and China to minimize Western influence.

But despite these efforts, the U.S. and its allies never abandoned their mission to overthrow Assad.

Syria was one of the most extensive USAID-backed regime change operations of the 21st century—and this time, they succeeded.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1886496716691763601

🇺🇸 Trump shooter has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh according to several US media outlets.

Going through his social media is just what you would expect. 🕳️🐇

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🇬🇪 Foreign agents and Soros slaves are gathering to protest in Tblisi, Georgia after the government passed the "foreign agents" bill on its second reading.

They are protesting a bill that will make any independent NGO and media organisation receiving more than 20 percent of its funding from abroad to register as an "organisation pursuing the interests of a foreign power".

They don't want to reveal their funding..... Georgia is NGO heaven. WHERE ARE VICKY NULAND AND SAMANTHA POWER?

🇺🇦 "Slava Ukraïni!" is a fascist slogan first uttered in the court house in Warsaw after 12 members of the OUN (including Stepan Bandera) conspired to assassinate Polish Interior Minister Branislaw Pieracki.

As one of the female defendants, Svientsits'ka was passing by the dock, she went towards the defendants, raised her right hand, and shouted, "Slava Ukraïni!"

The defendant Karpynets' stood up, raised his arm, and answered, "Slava Ukraïni!" This is apparently the first recorded fascist salute that OUN members performed in public.

Later....

After the defendants were all found guilty, Bandera shouted, "Iron and Blood will decide between us."

"Slava Ukraïni!" They responded in unison. And wouldn't you know...... they popped up in Gaza

https://twitter.com/dd_geopolitics/status/1737232802217939353

NO MORE NATO, NO MORE WARS 🧵

NATO was formed in 1949, after World War II under the auspice that it would promote peace in Europe and protect the world from the threat of the Soviet Union (communism). This is not only ironic because the war would have had a very different outcome if the Soviets hadn’t done their own peacekeeping mission on the eastern front by decimating the Nazi army. Additionally, the Soviets posed much less of a threat than the United States and its Western allies ever did.
United States Senator Robert Taft voted against the creation of NATO citing his country’s already unmatched nuclear arsenal. That stockpile should have been enough of a deterrent alone. He also vocalized his concerns that entering entangling alliances like those present in NATO would go against the best interests of the country and its people. Even after its formation NATO members denied that it was created as a buffer against communism and the Soviet Union, yet when the USSR requested membership in the 1950’s they were denied.
After the Cold War ended, it was accepted that the United States had won as the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Why then was it necessary for NATO to continue its existence if the Soviet threat was eliminated?

As we can see, from its formation up to the present time, NATO has not existed as a peacekeeping entity, but a military alliance that is consistently in search of monster abroad, often those of its own creation, and it behaves as such. Today, NATO's stated purpose is "to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means." The goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization used to be, as its first secretary general, Lord Ismay, phrased it, "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
Today, the sole reason to keep NATO going seems to be to give Americans a reason to be “in” Europe when there is no longer any need for American military involvement in European affairs. NATO should have gotten this involved and should not become further involved in current conflicts or any future conflict because the reasons for NATO’s creation no longer exist, NATO has become a mechanism used by the United States to stay involved in world affairs and serve their own interests, in recent history, NATO has acted more as aggressor than peacemaker or defensive alliance, and when NATO is not welcome in a country they use propaganda to manufacture consent amongst the population.
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Over the decades it has become increasingly apparent that NATO is not a military alliance, but a force driven by western, namely, American interests. Shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, another communist bloc began its descent into chaos and war.
What is now known as the Yugoslavia Wars, began in 1991 and lasted until 2001 and included a series of uprisings and conflicts. During the Kosovo war 1999, NATO carried out an all-out aerial assault on Serbia. In 2020, Samuel Moyn, a Yale professor, admitted that while working as a White House intern he “planted” stories that were later published in the Washington Post that convinced the public that NATO bombing Serbia was virtuous and necessary.

Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton and the leading US negotiator during the war, had written that "It was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform—not the plight of Kosovar Albanians—that best explains NATO's war." Once again, a member of the political elite admitting that manufactured consent was necessary to convince people that NATO involvement was a righteous cause. Later, in 2011, NATO would once again become involved in promoting US interests, this time in Libya, overthrowing the government and collapsing the country’s infrastructure. Both countries are still recovering from NATO intervention and now foster extreme animosity for the USA.
After the fall of the two communist unions, in 1999 NATO wasted no time reaping the spoils. In 1999 Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO. In that same year, NATO created individualized "Membership Action Plans" aka MAP for Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to fast-track these countries into membership. These members would be part of the NATO expansion in 2004. Former French ambassador Gerard Araud tweeted on May 9,2022 “I was the French negotiator of the first enlargement of NATO. I remember my colleague saying it was not an ant-Russian move. Of course, it was. The candidates didn’t look for a military guarantee against China!”
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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Videos from an alleged attack against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas car had surfaced recently. The videos are from the incident with drug dealers in Jalazon just from a different angle, the Palestinian President hasn't even left his home today

◾A campaign of fakes orchestrated by Israeli intelligence is trying to provoke a civil war between Palestinian factions.

◾The Palestinian National Authority has debunked these Mossad fakes with a statement this morning. (Next reply)
◾Two days ago, a fake group by the name of Abu Jandal allegedly released a joint statement of Palestinian Authority officials declaring mutiny against President Abbas within 24 hours.

◾The post was shared by a newly created telegram channel, and only 3 minutes later was reposted by a famous virtual opposition page called "Msh Hek"; the page's IP address is in fact in Tel Aviv, according to a PA intelligence officer.

◾The statement, which shares names of actual officials in the Palestinian Authority debunked the fake statement right after it was published, exposing the attempt as a work of Mossad aiming to destabilise the West Bank and create social divisions and security conflicts.

The posters are doing what they're intended to do..... it's a propaganda campaign meant to sow division and give people a reason to scream antisemitism. These people aren't being held hostage in America or Europe, there's literally NO REASON to hang them outside of Israel. If Israel cared an iota about those hostages they wouldn't be carpet bombing Gaza, they're just more propaganda devices.

Israel WANTS you to tear these posters down so they can do this.....

https://twitter.com/dd_geopolitics/status/1720128545077518845

🇪🇷🇮🇱 BREAKING: An Israeli army base on the Dahlak archipelago in Eritrea was attacked by unknown assailants. The Houthis mentioned this base in one of their earlier statements.

They're using the same exact stories about Palestinians that they told about Serbs..... we're going to walk ourselves into another NATO war and this isn't going to end with a Balkanized republic and new NATO members. Pleas learn history I beg.

"In 2020, Samuel Moyn, a Yale professor, admitted that while working as a White House intern he 'planted' stories that were later published in the Washington Post that convinced the public that NATO bombing Serbia was virtuous and necessary.  Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton and the leading US negotiator during the war, had written that 'It was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform—not the plight of Kosovar Albanians—that best explains NATO's war.'"

Stop falling for their lies.
And thank God Serbia somehow survived.....

https://twitter.com/dd_geopolitics/status/1701796189593882880

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇸🇾 BREAKING: Mortar fire from Syria into the Israeli occupied Golan Heights Sirens activated in occupied Syrian Golan amidst reports of mortars fired from the Syrian side

On the creation of the Holodomor.

"The phonetic similarity of Holodomor to Holocaust was not a coincidence."

Excerpt from Stepan Bandera By Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

In other words, upset by the accurate portrayal of Holocaust stories which showed that Ukrainians were some of the most savage Nazis, Ukraine made up their own victim narrative.

Listen to this reporter commenting on Zelensky's visit to Canada...

Then listen again and something will feel a little off.

That's because she says the veteran receiving the standing ovation fought against the Russians in the Second World War.

Yes, because the 98 year old "veteran" is Yaroslav Hunka, who fought for the 14th division of the Waffen SS.
The Plot Thickens...

Turns out he is also one of the contributors to this book.

Canada going full Banderastan 2.0

BIOLABS IN UKRAINE - Chief of Protection from Radiation, Chemical and Biological Weapons of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Kirillov warns what the US government is up to.

"As in 2019, the United States has begun preparing for a new pandemic by looking for virus mutations.

We do not exclude the possible use of so-called defensive technologies for offensive purposes, as well as for the purpose of global control, by creating crises situations of a biological nature."

https://twitter.com/dd_geopolitics/status/1691777582130417873

🇺🇸🇳🇪Media: Nuland met rebels in Niger, negotiations were frank and difficult

US Deputy Secretary of State Nuland met with rebel leaders of Niger, the talks were "frank and at times quite difficult" - TV

🇺🇸🇳🇪🇷🇺Victoria Nuland: After I warned them, the Putschist Leaders in Niger… https://t.co/DmPdskKmoGtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@deeredley Ukraine is her masterpiece.

People are calling the new leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, a reminder or even a reincarnation of the beloved Thomas Sankara. One thing appears true he has the support of his people. Hope.

Hawaii, a paradise often associated with sunny beaches and aloha is also the site of the first American-backed coup. Let's take a brief look.... Before the coup of 1893, Hawaii was a sovereign kingdom known as the Kingdom of Hawaii, ruled by a monarchy with a long and rich history. The islands were governed by a succession of monarchs, including King Kamehameha I, who unified the Hawaiian islands in the late 18th century,… https://t.co/YRkvJTqRbatwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Sunday May 21 headlines:

Zelensky denies the fall of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk.

"The Ukrainian military are in Bakhmut, at which points I will not share, Bakhmut has not been captured by the Russian Federation to date," - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Wagner" has full control over "Airplane" ("Самолёт", ) district in Bakhmut.

- A report by war correspondent Alexander Kharchenko from Bakhmut, from the "Airplane"("Самолёт", ) district, confirms full control over the city by "Wagner."

Saturday May 20 headlines:

"WAGNER" TOOK BAKHMUT - Yevgeny Prigozhin.

- According to the head of the PMC "Wagner" - "The operation lasted 224 days. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the settlement was completely taken." - "Bakhmut was completely liberated by the units of PMC "Wagner" from the post-Maidan illegal occupations government forces of Ukraine."

- "Entire "NATO standard trained" Army (what was left of it after 24.02.2022) beaten by "Wagner".

Prigozhin

Friday May 19 headlines:

PMC "Wagner" have advanced up to 500 meters in Bakhmut(Artyomovsk), 330 000m2 are occupied.

The enemy controls 0.6 km2. "Heavy, bloody battles continue in Bakhmut. We are close to completing the task. The fighting is still going on. The enemy is pulling up reserves" - Yevgeny Prigozhin.

We are writing to keep you updated. As you have seen here the channel founder DD has been doxxed by NAFO with her personal details leaked online, including images of her daughter, one of her addresses and urgesfor her to take her own life. As was revealed yesterday in *The Wall Street Journal* a former colleague, who we will call 'A Stalker' to protect their identity, divulged many of DD's personal details including her name to NAFO.