In short, Medea Benjamin and Global Exchange have been working with adversarial foreign governments all over the world. Not only that, but they have been at the center of many protests - per last post, the 1999 Seattle WTO riots among them.
Hugo Chavez himself actively worked through Medea Benjamin by creating its own mouthpiece, Venezuela Information Office, and tapping into Global Exchange for activism.
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Medea Benjamin's affiliation with Venezuela goes beyond making tours. She was one of the activists squatting at the Venezuelan embassy in 2019 to support the installation of Maduro as President.
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Global Exchange also visited Venezuela - back then, Venezuela was promoting luxury people-to-people exchanges with the tourists meeting Chavez himself.
The Sandinistas are a left-wing political party which was once at the center of a CIA coup. It is the party which Daniel Ortega belongs to.
So, yes, Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange took others on a trip to Nicaragua to meet the left-wing activists there.
So, yes, Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange took others on a trip to Nicaragua to meet the left-wing activists there.
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Another "Reality Tour" country which Global Exchange has visited is Nicaragua. I had to go back to the web archives to find the itinerary ... and it talks about meeting with representatives of Sandinistas.
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Global Exchange engages in "people-to-people" diplomacy by taking it on various tours of countries. But these type of trips are often done so with government backing. For instance, the Cuban trips are done with "Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples" as the hosting institution.
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The CHIPS act (which was sadly bipartisan) and also the Inflation Reduction Act showered all universities with billions and billions of dollars for research.
The CHIPS act was supposed to bolster the US semiconductor market share. But I think that was the wrong way to do it. We should've done another Operation Paperclip at much cheaper.
The CHIPS act was supposed to bolster the US semiconductor market share. But I think that was the wrong way to do it. We should've done another Operation Paperclip at much cheaper.
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In short, research isn't "free."
It requires new buildings, new equipment, technicians, overhead.
So you have universities raking in the money and yet unable to keep up with operating expenses. And students get hurt most of all.
This is one in a series of articles.
It requires new buildings, new equipment, technicians, overhead.
So you have universities raking in the money and yet unable to keep up with operating expenses. And students get hurt most of all.
This is one in a series of articles.
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This is the first in a series of articles I've been working on with the wonderful journalists at @thecentersquare about the ballooning costs of universities even amidst unprecedented federal funding windfalls.
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