US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest

Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by bcks on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:29AM (#7522624)

For better or worse, U.S. foreign aid and assistance are instruments of U.S. foreign policy. Just look at the list of countries and how much they receive. It's not exactly correlated to the amount of poverty and hunger among recipient countries.

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Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by biesnecker on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:32AM (#7522643)

"instrument of US foreign policy" != "arm of the US intelligence services"

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Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by meric on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:40AM (#7522693)

Here's how I see it. As the government of the US relies on information mostly from US intelligence services when figuring out foreign policy, US intelligence services have a large influence on US foreign policy, and by extension it also has a substantial influence on the instruments used to implement such a policy.

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