Liberia Emerging Political Leaders Training by USAID takes the cake

The Americans have a paternalistic relationship or rather shadow with/over Liberia. Liberia is a settler colony founded by African Americans and fully supported by the American state. In Liberia, Americans found a buffer state against Soviet influence, a quasi colony to build a major imperial presence in Africa. 

USAID from Wikipedia: 

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $50 billion USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms.*

USAID was established in 1961 by JFK. Its areas of help are:

• Disaster relief
• Poverty relief
• Technical cooperation on global issues, including the environment
• U.S. bilateral interests
• Socioeconomic development

Fair enough - even if it is true, what have Americans achieved in Liberia since 2003? Have they built anything in Liberia? Roads? Hospitals? Universities? Schools? Can they boast of any institution they built? Which would actually count as socioeconomic development? 

Instead the postwar assistance is about soft projects like training and workshops. See the posts from Internews and IREX below. 

I've been reading about training of journalists and radio stations (and teachers , civil servants, etc) for the longest time. This particular post talks about helping media develop digital strategies. I literally can't take it seriously! More than taking it as yet more evidence of how Americans control media and destroy independent journalism. 

Same goes for IREX' post: so Americans are training Emerging Political Leaders? I'm literally on the floor laughing. I can't breathe! There's an acronym for imperialism!!!!!! 

Before I go, check out Armed Forces of Liberia article in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Liberia. This gives you a better idea of the American interests in Liberia. 

* US gives about 3-4 billion Dollars to Israel every year. This is military assistance. Cumulatively Israel has received 300 billion USD to Israel. Egypt also receives massive assistance. USAID's budget is peanuts compared to Imperial Moolah doled out by the Americans.  So, let's stop pretending Americans are tirelessly working to eradicate poverty.