Destroying countries and attacking human rights activists — your USAID dollars hard at work

My advocacy made me a target of the US government.

Op-ed by Bill Nicholov originally published by

Here’s what USAID really did — it wasn’t bunnies and rainbows

I am a human rights activist and advocate for my country — Macedonia — and for its language and its culture.

As an American taxpayer, you have probably never heard of me. You might not know much about Macedonia or even be able to find it on a map.

But here’s one thing you have a right to know: Millions of your taxpayer dollars were spent to foment a political crisis in my country, to overthrow its government, and even to defame me personally.

When you read about Elon Musk putting the U.S. Agency for International Development “through the woodchipper,” you are likely to see a whole bunch of claims about starving children and cuts to lifesaving medical research. But the truth about what USAID does — or did — is quite another story. Your tax dollars were (and still are through other channels) being spent not on altruism…