tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-94161205314098957 2013-07-31T15:22:00-04:00 Original reporting on little-known U.S. government funded foreign aid projects, so-called "drug war" initiatives, and overseas business subsidies. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2019b00e88736970c 2013-07-31T15:22:00-04:00 2013-07-31T15:22:00-04:00

President Obama’s multi-billion-dollar “Power Africa” initiative aims to double citizen access to electricity and other power sources across Sub-Saharan Africa. But it plays down the creation of a new public-private bureaucracy needed to overcome the pervasive corruption and incompetence of African governments and power utilities.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201901e81c003970b 2013-07-29T13:39:52-04:00 2013-07-29T13:39:52-04:00

President Obama’s multi-billion-dollar “Power Africa” initiative aims to double citizen access to electricity and other power sources across Sub-Saharan Africa. But it plays down the creation of a new public-private bureaucracy needed to overcome the pervasive corruption and incompetence of African governments and power utilities.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017c38340fb9970b 2013-03-29T20:16:13-04:00 2013-03-29T20:16:13-04:00

The Obama administration recently issued warnings to contractors of potential sequestration-related spending cuts, but in the meantime federal spending continues unabated, domestically and globally. Some of the apparently indispensable projects include a environmental public murals in Hebron and Jericho along with similarly themed summer camps and field trips for Palestinian children, alternative energy outings to Turkey, and assistance to mango growers and hotel operators in Pakistan.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017c339d137d970b 2012-11-16T23:20:12-05:00 2012-11-17T12:12:30-05:00

Less than a week after Hurricane Sandy plunged much of the mid-Atlantic region into darkness, the Obama administration unveiled a new initiative aimed at mitigating the impact of “unreliable grid power.” Not across ravaged coastal New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, but in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017d3ce47180970c 2012-10-22T19:54:15-04:00 2012-10-22T19:54:15-04:00

A private contractor will be hired by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assess the agency's project-portfolio over five years in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia -- a portfolio that quietly benefits Arab royals.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017744bf55c0970d 2012-09-15T10:45:26-04:00 2012-09-15T10:45:26-04:00

The nation faces a critical need to "overcome a number of serious problems attached to its development and the growing energy demand," particularly because of its "strong dependence on energy imports," the Obama Administration has concluded. The nation of Macedonia, that is.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20168eb8b5988970c 2012-05-16T10:28:02-04:00 2012-05-16T10:43:23-04:00

A company jointly led by a former Exxon researcher and a one-time U.S. government official recently secured a contract to assess potential U.S. investments into Libyan industry, specifically the power-generation sector.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20167665016b1970b 2012-05-08T13:19:14-04:00 2012-05-08T13:19:14-04:00

The UAE embassy just tweeted that "UAE participated with US in 5 coalition actions in 20 years: Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia-Kosovo, Gulf War. " Does that possibly explain why USAID plans to build a gas pipeline to benefit the UAE-owned Poti Free Industrial Zone near the Black Sea?

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20163059546c2970d 2012-04-13T09:01:00-04:00 2012-04-13T09:01:00-04:00

The Obama administration is considering future funding of industry modernization ventures in Libya, and has proposed sending contractors to assess U.S. investment prospects.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2015437e5790c970c 2011-12-05T18:35:08-05:00 2011-12-05T18:35:08-05:00

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) plans to outsource a chunk of its global fuel supply and storage services to industry, though the agency has not disclosed the exact magnitude of those future contracts, U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor has discovered. According to several presolicitation notices dated Dec. 5 and discovered...

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