At some point over the past few years, the Biden administration revoked one of the few progressive policies that Trump-era officials implemented in the effort to bring greater transparency to foreign influence in Washington. The New Republic has learned that with little fanfare, and with even less explanation, the White House has stopped requesting that American think tanks disclose funding from foreign governments. “This is not the policy of the U.S. State Department,” an agency spokesperson said last month.
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again (archived)
Tag: Foreign Influence
Zelensky TOLD Rupert Murdoch To Fire Tucker Carlson?
Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this spring in which the two discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March. The Ukrainian president had a similar conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on March 15, which Zelenskyy noted in a little-noticed aside during a national broadcast last month.
The Murdochs’ Ukraine connection
Previously:
Murdoch was displeased with Carlson’s stance on the Ukraine war—a graphic on Carlson’s show had previously called the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky a “Ukrainian pimp.” The host also repeatedly chided the U.S. for providing military aid to Ukraine. Murdoch’s opinion of Carlson’s commentary had become so negative that he complained about it during a newsroom meeting, according to anonymous sources cited by the Washington Post
Building for future: Chinese construction companies help bridge Iraq’s education gap
Chinese companies are building 1,000 new schools in Iraq to accomodate the growing number of students, which will bridge the education gap in the country still reeling from long years of war and destruction.
Building for future: Chinese construction companies help bridge Iraq’s education gap
It’s beyond pathetic that the US government destroyed both Iraq, and Afghanistan, yet can’t rebuild what they destroyed! They won’t rebuild Ukraine, either!
Regime Change Continues: Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as the Black Sea nation’s government faces mounting accusations of backsliding on democracy.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Georgian parliament for a rally organized by the country’s main opposition force, the United National Movement (UNM), founded by jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Protesters waved Georgian, Ukrainian and European Union flags and held a huge banner that read “For European future.”
Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government
Related:
Regime change proceeds: State Departments sanctions Georgian judges, assassinations feared next
Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaçi on trial for war crimes
From March 24 to June 9, 1999, NATO bombed Serbia for 77 days. It was the first major war on European soil since the Second World War—even this fact is suppressed and denied today in view of the war in Ukraine.
Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaçi on trial for war crimes
Canada: Senator fears ‘modern Chinese exclusion’ but some redress activists reject link
Senator Yuen Pau Woo questions whether a foreign influence registry might become “a modern form of Chinese exclusion,” and says angry reaction to his suggestion proves his point about racial profiling and stigmatization.
Senator fears ‘modern Chinese exclusion’ but some redress activists reject link
H/T: Silk and Steel Podcast: Canada’s China Freakout with Justin Podur
No color revolution for Canada?! /sarcasm
“Legitimate target” — Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine’s attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a “propagandist.”
“Legitimate target” — Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
Israel and its US lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace Initiative
On Thursday the New York Times ran yet another report about Saudi Arabia’s entry into an “Abraham Accord,” but if only certain conditions could be met. It quoted longtime Israel lobby heavyweight Martin Indyk and reported on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s think tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy “expert” delegation’s visit to Riyadh to finalize a deal. Then on Friday explosive news broke that China had successfully concluded a secret peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Israel and its US lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace Initiative
The Color of Foreign Influence
There is a distressing and familiar sight in the nation-state of Georgia. Young protestors have taken over a central area and are chanting anti-Russia slogans, often obscene and in English, as they wave Ukraine and EU flags and clash with the police.
The Color of Foreign Influence
Related:
Georgia Protests: US Seeks to Open 2nd Front Against Russia
– Protests in Georgia consist of US-backed opposition groups (literally waving US and EU flags) attempting to block a bill to increase transparency behind political groups to reduce foreign interference;
– The US has already once overthrown Georgia’s government in 2003, according to the London Guardian;
– By 2008 after flooding Georgia with weapons and training its military, Georgia attacked Russia, according to a EU investigation;
– The US seeks to stir up trouble in Georgia again to “extend” Russia as explained in detail by the RAND Corporation’s 2019 paper, “Extending Russia;”
– The US has pressured other nations attempting to pass bills to protect against foreign interference including recently Thailand
References:
Georgia Protests: US Seeks to Open 2nd Front Against Russia (Odysee) via The New Atlas
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Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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