USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets

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"Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

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Truman’s World

[JonPreston]

Everything we have read, seen and heard has been filtered thru a propaganda filter with the intent to condition a response. To those few who have resisted, congratulations, to the rest, help is on the way

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[AndyJackson]

So who is going to tell Our Truth to the rest of the world now?

[iontheball]

Now we are finding out how the CIA has been controlling the media - - and our minds. The CIA is disintegrating before our eyes.

[Pollard]

Gotta love that wikileaks is digging into the datarepublican system. Mike Benz was the first to mention Internews Network

[BobL]

There’s a REASON why I read Russia Today on a daily basis (and, no, Zeepers, it’s not that I’m Russian) - and that’s because they are NOT funded by USAID, and it’s free. And it’s funny, their stories seem to line up petty much with other non-USAID media, such as Epoch Times and the Washington Times.

...yet there’s a group here that INSISTS that I only trust USAID-funded media.

[SaveFerris]

Stay asleep. Marry. Reproduce. Consume. Conform. Buy. Watch TV.

[hardspunned]

When we were resisting the Uke narrative scam in March of 2022 we were very, very lonely while doing it.

[Liz]

FYI

[OKSooner]

Yes, of course, that’s why all the mainstream news all sounds the same, and always has...

[JonPreston]

100% and it was the same thing with the COVID vaxx propaganda.

I don't blame people for having been swayed by either media assault but if they continue to believe this nonsense going forward, they are part of our problem.

[hardspunned]

I remember when VOA used to broadcast to the oppressed people of the world that there was a shining city on a hill waiting for them and this is what it is like.

Now we trumpet to the planet our satisfaction in being a Godless Gomorrah in a sewer.

[Col Frank Slade]

Notice the Clintons once again are involved.

[Eli Kopter]

Spoken like a true CIA Partner...

[wally_bert]

I love that movie.

“They Live”

[bert]

Jon is not CIA.... he’s KGB

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Internews is broken into pieces, here and in Europe as well. Only from the US side:

"Revenue" -- $ 123,850,736 ( Part I, line 7b )
USHA CHAUDHARY (COO) -- circa $ 440K yearly ( in Part VII, line 1a )
Total compensation -- officers, directors -- $ 1,197,500 ( line 5 )
Other salaries and wages -- $ 34,345,899 ( line 7 )
Other employee benefits -- $ 6,773,970 ( line 9 )
"Stipends" -- $ 2,908,007 ( line 24a )

Their contributors? Schedule B, Part I states "restricted."

Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year e Internews Network Form 990 2023

Simple conclusion. A lot of fat cats getting paid very well have been supported by the old Samantha Power USAID, and as one can see from the Form 990, the US government through Democrats was providing a very good lifestyle to their "manufacturing consent" messengers and influencers.

Add in whatever monies flowed to similar "charities" in Bangkok, Thailand; Kyiv, Ukraine; London, UK; Nairobi, Kenya and Paris, France, and we're talking lots of fat cats living well on the US taxpayer.

Obama's fundamental change, Biden's outright corruption and Samantha Powers activities related to regime change and beyond.

As with so muhc of the corrupt Left and their RINO enablers, it is about the well-connected political rich living well, right under our noses.

[JonPreston]

Mike Benz

I haven't watched this yet, but I will sometime over the weekend

Mike Benz/USAID with Tucker

[dforest]

Benz know it all it seems. This guy is operating a wrecking ball on the left.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

There’s a REASON why I read Russia Today on a daily basis ... and that’s because they are NOT funded by USAID