Tag: usaid

Rappler admits USAID funding but still neither confirms nor denies receiving grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 benign0 No Comments

Yellowtard “social news network” Rappler continues to flail over the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump. Gaby Baizas, a “digital forensics researcher” there insists in her piece “The lies, attacks on USAID spreading in the Philippines” that “USAID has been providing humanitarian aid to several countries,…

Media

Is Rappler a beneficiary of USAID?

February 7, 2025 benign0 4 Comments

One would think so. Over just the last seven days, Rappler and its hipster “journalists” seem to be all-hands-on-deck kicking up a media frenzy over the gutting of a renowned global ATM machine; the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Philippines, after all, is dependent on an umbilical cord that delivers cash from…

Development

Philippine anti-human-trafficking NGO sued by Uncle Sam on allegations of fraudulent use of aid funds

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 benign0 25 Comments

A bookkeeper of noted Philippine NGO Visayan Forum Foundation (VFF) blew the whistle on its founder Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. Maria Analie Villacorte who, according to VFF attorney Laurence Arroyo, resigned from the VFF last July alleges she received instructions from Oebanda to “falsify” documents that would have been used to support the disbursement of up to…

Crime, Development, Government