tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-94161205314098957 2013-08-07T13:16:44-04:00 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-6a00d834515b9569e201901eab9188970b 2013-08-07T13:16:44-04:00 2013-08-07T13:16:44-04:00

The "Grit & Grace Radio Show" has invited me to discuss my recent reporting on foreign aid to the Middle East/North Africa. Hosts Jennifer Meadows and Josh Bernstein will grill me in response to several recent articles I had written for WND and have since re-posted (under agreement with WND) here at U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor (see "Have U.S. 'Investments' in Mideast Paid Off?" and "Feds Plan to Give Egypt Armed-to-the-Teeth Ships.")

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20192ac6b047e970d 2013-08-07T13:12:36-04:00 2013-08-07T13:12:36-04:00

Contradictory claims of total dollar figures for U.S. foreign aid circulate around the Internet, containing oft-repeated figures that may or may not reflect reality. In response to those conflicting claims, WND has compiled a list of significant U.S. aid totals based on a review of congressional and Obama administration documents...

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20192ac5e62ef970d 2013-08-05T00:17:35-04:00 2013-08-05T00:25:31-04:00

Contradictory claims of total dollar figures for U.S. foreign aid circulate around the Internet, containing oft-repeated figures that may or may not reflect reality. In response to those conflicting claims, WND has compiled a list of significant U.S. aid totals based on a review of congressional and Obama administration documents and databases.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017ee74dd7d3970d 2013-01-12T22:11:14-05:00 2013-01-12T22:11:14-05:00

Congress and the Obama administration have averted, for now, plunging the nation over the so-called “fiscal cliff” by postponing spending cuts and raising taxes on American families by $620 billion and confirming plans to try to bill taxpayers for another $1 trillion. Now the White House is spending millions collected from those same taxpayers to avoid another “fiscal cliff” – this time in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201761674b3d3970c 2012-07-14T11:55:17-04:00 2012-07-14T11:55:17-04:00

The Obama administration’s solution to public school budget cuts and classroom overcrowding? Infuse millions of extra federal dollars into constructing modern facilities and renovating old ones, while deploying additional computer equipment – and new furniture – in schools nationwide Nationwide, that is, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20177434aa724970d 2012-07-12T10:44:46-04:00 2012-07-12T10:44:46-04:00

Another "not-found-elsewhere" news article of mine published via WND: "Obama spending $30M on struggling schools - in Arab kingdom."

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20168eb6bd93e970c 2012-05-10T21:52:53-04:00 2012-05-10T21:55:24-04:00

USAID today released a detailed lot-by-lot equipment list, provided below, for what the agency refers to as the Jordan School Construction and Rehabilitation Program:

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2015390cf2951970b 2011-08-18T22:09:07-04:00 2011-08-18T22:09:07-04:00

Yet another extension of a U.S.-funded small business initiative in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been granted, along with an additional financial infusion to keep the Sustainable Achievement of Business Expansion and Quality, or SABEQ, program going.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2015390378688970b 2011-07-27T17:23:19-04:00 2011-07-27T17:34:13-04:00

The U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is looking for a contractor capable of developing a new analytical model to predict Internet usage and growth -- in thirty-two foreign nations, from "A" (Albania) to "Z" (Zimbabwe).

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2014e88795451970d 2011-05-16T15:55:23-04:00 2011-05-16T15:55:23-04:00

“Additional support is needed to fully capitalize on this momentum to drive forward the impact on Jordan’s economy and, in particular, on growth of its private sector, particularly important as Jordan wrestles with unemployment and rising inflation,” the document says.

Steve Peacock