My piece ends: "To billionaires in the White House, it may seem like a game. But to anyone with a heart, it's about children's lives and our own security, and what's unfolding is sickening."

Here's a link to the Opinion column that should let you read it even wothout a subscription: bit.ly/3EB0Ksd

The reason it didn't reach the US is partly that USAID worked to stop it in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Now there's an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, and USAID is sidelined because of Musk and Trump. This is an invitation for China and Russia to expand influence

There's something profoundly discomfiting about seeing the world's richest man gleeful at destroying an agency that serves the world's poorest children. But it doesn't just serve the poor -- it also serves us. Remember the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa (which had Trump in hysteria back then)?

Sure, I've seen aid wasted. Yes, USAID, the American aid agency, could use some reforms. But what President Trump and Elon Musk have undertaken at USAID isn't reform but vandalism. Demolition.

a former Trump speechwriter fired in 2018 after because he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists and in october tweeted ""competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work" , has been appointed the acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs...

It’s terrifying being a history teacher these days.

[A] decree was issued amnestying National Socialists convicted of crimes,...Men convicted of treason were now national heroes.”

And remember that the election that brought Hitler to power was based on promises of “doubling tariffs” and “mass deportation of the country’s 100,000 immigrants ”

[he wanted] to make good on his campaign promises to revive the economy, withdraw from international treaty obligations, purge the country of foreigners he claimed were “poisoning” the blood of the nation, and exact revenge on political opponents...of draining the “parliamentarian swamp”

“ [the Nazi coalition] controlled barely 51 percent of the Reichstag, but Hitler believed that he should exercise... the authority to make laws without parliamentary approval, and allow Hitler to rule by decree...expunging key government officials and filling their positions with loyalists.

The administration officials were pretty clear that this was about ego and pride not helping the American people. The Brazilians are angry they intercepted a plan with their nationals being repatriated/deported wearing handcuffs www.france24.com/en/americas/...