And one of our society's biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: ''Non-governmental organizations.''
Until recently these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic non-profits.
We thought of them as do-good organizations set up by people who really care — about the environment, or poor people, or children, or freedom.
We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out blurbs and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor.
They're not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.
Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.
But as we've learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many ''non-governmental'' entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.
For example, America’s border crisis was funded in large part by Joe
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This was US taxpayer money, laundered through "independent" organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.
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, this funding halted — and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal im
Likewise, the weird wave of sudden global enthusiasm for "trans rights" and novel ideas about gender turns out to have been largely funded by the US government through USAID grants.
Federally funded NGOs spent millions on everything from a transgender opera in Colombia, to a campaign promoting "being LGBTQ in the Caribbean," to an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia.