Tag: VOA

32 Years After US Disabilities Act, No Plans to Ratify UN Treaty It Inspired

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

32 Years After US Disabilities Act, No Plans to Ratify UN Treaty It Inspired

The administration says it supports “disability-inclusive development and humanitarian action” around the world.

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USAID Announces Commitments at the Global Disability Summit:

In keeping with the “Year of Action” for disability-inclusive democracy stemming from the Summit for Democracy, USAID will support the empowerment of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations to be active participants in civic engagement and the political and public life of their countries.

USAID is weaponizing disability rights for regime change!

Michael Pack Stands His Ground Amid D.C. Firestorm

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Michael Pack Stands His Ground Amid D.C. Firestorm

One article asked whether Trump is putting “fascists in charge of the Voice of America,” even though Pack is Jewish, as are several of the other top officials he’s brought into front-office positions.

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Critics have also assailed Pack for installing interim heads of the USAGM media outlets, including Jeffrey Shapiro, who several media reports have cast as a Bannon ally, as leading the Office of Cuba Broadcasting – at least in an interim basis. Bannon made himself an easy target with several recent comments suggesting he could be involved in USAGM decision-making. Pack dismisses the notion that Bannon is playing or angling to play an influential role in running the agency – either officially or in an informal advisory capacity.

Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0

But Steve Bannon, who was deeply involved with getting Trump to nominate his ally Michael Pack, sees the ousters as a reckoning for an agency that he believes has been too soft on covering China.

“We are going hard on the charge,” Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and executive chairman of Breitbart, told me. “Pack’s over there to clean house.”

President Trump pushes for new VOA leadership

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Urged by President Trump, Senate pushes to install conservative filmmaker to run Voice of America

A Washington-based filmmaker, Pack has collaborated on movies with Bannon, a former head of Breitbart News, and produced and directed a documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” His nomination has been backed by a cadre of powerful conservative activists and groups, including the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim DeMint and Jerome Corsi, the political commentator and conspiracy theorist.