The New Yorker has recently put out a puff piece on USAID (United States Agency for International Development) by Atul Gawande, who served as Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development under the Biden administration.
In the piece, Gawande claims that USAID “helped move billions of people out of poverty. And it showed how to deliver results for all of humanity, including Americans, through coöperation, rather than coercion”.
While the piece briefly mentions that, “aid was bent to American military and political aims—in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere,” it ignores the fact that USAID has often been used as a tool of the CIA, to back coups and regime change operations against unfriendly governments around the world- something that is still happening today despite Trump’s claims to have ended USAID.
Keep reading The Dissident analysis in Substack.
In the piece, Gawande claims that USAID “helped move billions of people out of poverty. And it showed how to deliver results for all of humanity, including Americans, through coöperation, rather than coercion”.
While the piece briefly mentions that, “aid was bent to American military and political aims—in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere,” it ignores the fact that USAID has often been used as a tool of the CIA, to back coups and regime change operations against unfriendly governments around the world- something that is still happening today despite Trump’s claims to have ended USAID.
Keep reading The Dissident analysis in Substack.