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BBC Link From X: seriously, politico, NPR, AP newswire, all paid big money by the US gov’t. now BBC turns out to get 8% of it’s revenue from US grants through a charity cutout. this is how the lockstep talking point complex was funded and kept in line. USAID was the beating heart of the …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding USAID, a government agency funded by U.S. taxpayers, has contributed a staggering $3.23 million to BBC Media Action in the last financial year alone. This donation makes it the second-largest donor to the charity, supporting a wide range of projects across 30 countries and 50 languages. These initiatives include advising the United Nations on …
When BBC host Martine Croxall spoke with Palestinian-American reporter Mariam Barghouti about Israel’s operations in the West Bank, she wasn’t expecting to be challenged and accused of serving as a mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda. And yet that’s precisely what happened, as Barghouti explained how Croxall’s reflexive defense of genocide was just one small part of …
