“Good afternoon. I come bearing a simple message: if you want peace in this world, trust women to deliver it,” said Power during a speech on Friday, which quickly inspired ridicule online. “Samantha Power is proof that this is not true,” reacted one Twitter user, with many people pointing out that Power, …
Read More »Interventionist Samantha Power is latest pick to serve in Joe Biden administration as USAID head
Though her appointment was rumored in Washington for weeks, Biden’s transition team officially confirmed it on Wednesday. Power is best known for her “humanitarian” interventionism advocacy. As an aide at the Obama White House, she championed US intervention in Syria and Libya – where US-backed Islamist militants sought to overthrow …
Read More »Samantha Power at the helm of USAID should set off alarm bells globally as Obama’s deadly foreign policy returns for an encore
Power has officially been tapped as head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a soft-power cutout allegedly used by US intelligence to enact regime change and other questionable dealings under cover of administering humanitarian aid or “promoting democracy.” USAID, an ostensibly independent agency with ties to the State …
Read More »Obama-era hawk Samantha Power reportedly tapped as US foreign aid body head. Critics ask: Libya, Syria & Yemen legacy, anyone?
If she gets to be the next heard of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Power would “signal the Biden administration plans to revitalize foreign assistance and use it as an instrument of soft power and to achieve humanitarian goals”, according to the Axios news website, which reported her …
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