Meet the USAID’s shadowy propaganda arm
A shadowy organization funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been funding propaganda domestically and abroad to shape political landscapes and trigger regime changes.
Claims that USAID was a deep state front for the intelligence community were vindicated last week after an investigation by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed the agency has been using its $40 billion budget to promote the Left’s agenda in foreign countries. The investigation also exposed USAID’s scandalous waste of taxpayer funds on initiatives like transgender operas in Colombia, DEI in Serbia, and the publication of a transgender comic book in Peru. The agency has since been shut down and its offices will instead be used to house the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).
Wikileaks recently reported that USAID has been the main financier of the Internews Network, an organization that has been sponsoring media propaganda worldwide. The organization, which has reportedly received $472.6 million from USAID, has worked with 4,291 media outlets and over 9,000 journalists in over 30 countries to promote “free press” around the world.
However, Internews’ own documents, unearthed by KanekoatheGreat, acknowledge that its objective is to use media to effect political change.
"INTERNEWS does not just produce television and radio shows. While the organization certainly strives to create high-quality programs, it is more interested in using broadcast media as a lever to effect social and political transformation."
Internews began partnering with the Soros Foundation in the early 1990s to disseminate propaganda in post-Soviet countries like Ukraine, which commentators say prepped the ground for the 2014 regime change. By 2003, Internews had trained over 2,800 Ukrainian journalists and produced thousands of radio and TV programs.
The organization, headed by USAID operative Jeanne Bourgault, has reportedly reached over a billion people worldwide, trained over 60,000 journalists, and been credited by the Washington Post as “[o]ne of the more successful agents of change in the former Soviet Union.”
After USAID’s shuttering last week, Internews reportedly abandoned its offices and President Jeanne Bourgault has frozen her social media accounts.
Pivot to censorship
Following President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, Internews not only continued to promote propaganda but also began focusing on censorship. Bourgault urged the World Economic Forum to work with global advertising firms to boycott independent news media that published “bad content.”
"Disinformation makes money,” she said. “We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news."
Bourgault’s vision was realized through the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a cartel of the world’s most powerful advertising firms and a flagship partner of the World Economic Forum. GARM used the threat of boycotts to force media outlets and social media platforms to suppress content under the pretext of “combatting misinformation.” This mass censorship cemented totalitarian ideologies like DEI and transgenderism. The cartel punished disobedient companies like X by withholding nearly all of the world’s ad revenue, which had a capsizing effect. It disbanded in August after legal threats from X and Rumble.
Operation Mockingbird 2.0
Internews’ activities vindicate previous remarks by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr about the agency’s role as a the world’s largest sponsor of propaganda. In an interview with OMG CEO James O’Keefe, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr referred to Operation Mockingbird, a program in which the CIA used news media to spread propaganda to the American people. After the 1975 Church Committee hearings, which investigated abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, the CIA agreed to never again use American journalists for propaganda purposes. Instead, the intelligence agency works through international organizations.
“The CIA promised that it would no longer compromise American journalists,” Kennedy said. “It continued the program to compromise journalists all over the world, and today the CIA is the biggest funder of journalism in the world. They fund it through USAID.”
Kennedy added that he believes that an Obama executive order re-opened the door for Project Mockingbird to spread propaganda directly to the American public, which is evidenced by the deep ties some media operatives have to US intelligence agencies.
