Bono, U2 frontman and longtime humanitarian advocate, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on May 31, 2025 for a 3-hour interview where he directly confronted Rogan about the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) funding through Elon …
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USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired on February 11, 2025, shortly after his office published a critical report warning that the administration’s foreign aid freeze had compromised oversight of $8.2 billion in humanitarian funds. Martin was the 18th inspector general removed by the …
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Harvard University’s Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) received a $40.4 million contract from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide advice on privatization and market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, awarded without normal competitive …
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program) begins on April 3, 1948, as the United States initiates a $13.3 billion economic recovery program for Western Europe ($137 billion in 2024 dollars). Announced by Secretary of State George Marshall in June 1947 and signed into law by …
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