Why? Because I’m a human rights activist and I get in the way of U.S. foreign policy.

Your tax dollars well spent.

And you thought that USAID’s purpose was foreign aid and humanitarian assistance.

Then again, Americans are used to pumping money into the U.S. foreign interventionist and war machine and not minding that they suffer—and cause tremendous suffering—for it.

Democratic and Republican Party government and media apologists, of course, always followed orders and covered up the real purpose of USAID—to fully control other countries by funding the overthrowing of governments, installing of dictators and regimes, funding their lavish spending, creating and funding U.S. foreign policy organizations in each country (misnamed as “civil society organizations”).

Additional purposes are to: (a) fund local U.S.-controlled media, and use these instruments to brutally crush human rights and dissent in order to impose U.S. foreign policy and (b) to work hand-in-hand with the U.S. government’s warmongering, mass murder and genocide overseas.

What is it called again, U.S. “aid”?

But since Trump denounced and shut down USAID, Republicans have switched their stance to acting as if they never supported it and, as fully expected, Democrats are decrying the “heartless, evil Nazis” who cut off supposed “aid” from the supposed “needy.”

It is crucial to note that the “needy” are celebrating the cutting off of funding.

USAID’s mission should have been humanitarian but, in addition to its claims of “ending extreme poverty” (often deliberately caused by the United States), its mission statement highlighted “promoting the development of resilient, democratic societies” (code for U.S. foreign interventionism and destruction of other countries).

Barely even attempting to hide the true motive, it further asserted that “USAID also works to advance America’s interests abroad by promoting stability, democracy, and economic growth in partner nations.” (Emphasis added.)

So yes, countries are celebrating the end of USAID. But Americans, don’t worry, your foreign interventionism won’t end.

Ironically (and idiotically), Democratic Party supporters who spew terms such as “heartless, evil Nazis” conveniently forget that it is their party which aided and abetted (and still are) Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and that they instigated the Ukraine war while literally arming Nazis to kill Russians in the Donbas, which was even reported in Western media until they were given marching orders to fully blame Russia. Have a look here, here, and here.

Of course, supporting Nazis is an American tradition. Read about the U.S. government’s support of Nazis in Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania in their quest to eradicate Macedonians. (But more about Macedonia in a minute). 

And don’t forget that, while Trump seems to be advocating for the end of the Ukraine war (as of this writing negotiations have stalled), he is fully on board with obeying his Zionist masters and ensuring the genocide and destruction of Palestine and attacking any country (and individual) that opposes said genocide.

In their day-to-day lives, Americans decry corrupt, dishonest politicians and media—yet they easily believe them in the most crucial policies imaginable. So, the tagline of “stopping Russian aggression” to (no less) “save democracy” is a melodramatic, bald-faced lie—one that Americans should have noticed.

Then again, since Americans believe that “Israel has the right to defend itself”—by bombing hospitals, slaughtering women and children, and murdering international (real) aid workers and preceding that, killing, displacing, and committing cultural genocide against Palestinians since the creation of Israel in 1948 (usurpation of Palestine), there was no hope that they would question the U.S. policy above.

In addition to well-known United States interventionism, warmongering, mass murder and genocide (that the American public still chooses to ignore), the U.S.’s reign of terror stretches worldwide.

Multiply—by virtually every country in the world—the case of Macedonia and USAID’s funding of attacks against me and attempts to destroy my country, and you will stop wondering why the U.S. does not have free health care, poverty is rampant, and its infrastructure is crumbling…because it is U.S. policy to spend its money wreaking havoc worldwide in order to achieve its foreign policy of hegemony while, naturally, benefitting the military-industrial complex, then blaming the world for “hating American freedom.”

Accordingly, the United States proceeded to freely use USAID and its American tax dollars to ramp up its attacks on Macedonia, siding with Greece in its attempts to eradicate Macedonians as an ethnic group. Americans, maybe you should demand a better use of your money.

Greece had demanded that Macedonia change its name—and literally wipe out its identity, culture, and history (the raison d’être for the illegal name change treaty, ironically known as the “Prespa Agreement”)—in exchange for Greece lifting its veto of Macedonia’s U.S.-imposed NATO membership bid. U.S. hegemony cemented. Greece’s racist policies enacted. A “win-win” for oppression.

So, the U.S. dipped into the massive USAID bucket and overthrew Macedonia’s government, installed the Zoran Zaev regime in 2016/2017 and set in motion the forced name change into the racist and highly derogatory “North Macedonia” amid brutal suppression of dissent and mass human rights violations against Macedonians throughout the Balkans/partitioned Macedonia (Macedonia was forcibly divided in 1913 among Serbia [now the independent Republic of Macedonia], Bulgaria, Greece and, in 1919, Albania).

In addition to Greece, the governments of Bulgaria and Albania were also given carte blanche to expand their policies of eradication of Macedonians.

As president of Macedonian Human Rights Movement International, I vocally and vehemently oppose U.S. anti-Macedonian policies, making me a target of the U.S. government.

In addition to Joe Biden’s executive order banning me from entering the United States, the U.S. ordered its regime in Macedonia to launch attacks against me which included the foreign minister defaming me during a press conference and television interview, and multiple U.S.-controlled media outlets conducting hit pieces on me full of libelous attacks.

Of course, I used the opportunity to further expose the regime and the United States, in addition to suing the foreign minister and its U.S./regime-controlled media.

Again, the attacks against human rights activists like myself are all courtesy of American tax dollars.

As an example, one of the media outlets in question, 360 Degrees, publicized its funding by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and, as per NED, it is “funded largely by the U.S. Congress.” 360 Degrees’ funding provided by USAID is confirmed by USAID and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) here.

And in a show of foreign interventionist teamwork, the British and Dutch embassies also funded 360 Degrees, confirmed here.

In a ramp-up of its preparation for the forced name change, the U.S. spent more than $45 million from 2012 to 2017 on the Republic of Macedonia, and more than $1 billion since Macedonia’s independence in 1991, again confirmed by this report by the GAO, which also acknowledges that not all funding is reported. One can only imagine the true number.

Again, U.S. taxpayers should wonder, if that much is spent on a country of two million, how much did (does) their government spend worldwide?

Now that Trump has ended USAID (massive U.S. spending on its foreign interventionism will undoubtedly continue in other forms), Republican Party supporters are celebrating, but only because their leader told them to, much like Democratic Party supporters are decrying the end of USAID for the same reason.

My question to the American public is: How do you so easily fall in line with what your political party tells you to think? It’s like being told by a psychopathic, compulsive liar what to believe—and then, not only believing it, but aggressively advocating for it.

Here is a novel idea: Think for yourself. Demand a permanent end to U.S. foreign interventionism, if not based on humanitarianism and human rights (which will never happen), but simply so that U.S. taxpayer money is spent in the U.S., with the exception of real humanitarian aid.

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