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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Ford Foundation 101: Henry Ford distrusted the Rockefeller and Carnegie style of world-changing philanthropy and instead created a foundation devoted to practical charity.
His grandson, Henry Ford II, later re-endowed the Foundation and sought to redefine its purpose. He commissioned the Gaither Report, led by H. Rowan Gaither (a key figure in the RAND Corporation and member of the Council on Foreign Relations) to determine how the Foundation’s resources could best be used.
The report's conclusion: the Foundation should promote the emergence of a unified world order of democracies. From that point forward, its mission was not only democracy-building but also assisting the U.S. government in transferring elements of national sovereignty to the United Nations.
Over the decades, the Foundation’s leadership has often overlapped with the State Department and U.S. intelligence services, including John J. McCloy, former head of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA... even as Ford Foundation heavily cooperated with CIA and later USAID.
6:21 PM · Nov 4, 2025
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https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1985850004142244197

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - The funny thing is that they genuinely equivocate "independent media" with "NGO funded"
Here's an example:
https://www.democracynow.org/
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2062620711186022805

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - A lot of it is also paid by billionaires' pocket change
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