Trying to blur political alliances with bitcoin is an even worse angle than human rights. It's pretty much saying “We'll give you agency - but only if you agree with our politics first” Mocking me or a position I didn't even claim is a straw man. It should be normal for a human rights org to be transparent. You have every right to do what you want to do. I hope whoever is funding is fully aware of this political alliance's first policy, or maybe that's why they are funding you, I don't know. Good luck

Thanks for sharing, your thoughts are aligned with mine. I too am really surprised and disappointed by this. You can't love people but love their political alignments more, and call yourself human rights. It doesn't sit right. In Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has become the go-to source for Western media. What they don't disclose is that they were bankrolled by NED (which does covert ops like the CIA), for over $900,000 in 2024 alone. HRF might not receive directly from gov't but funds could be shell companies, individuals with specific interests, or genuinely kind donors who had no idea. The irony is Alex understands how economic colonialism works. He wrote essays exposing it. But HRF's political alignment follows the same selective pattern he critiques. Human rights are universal. Alliances are political. This feels misleading.

Using a blanket definition of "tyranny" on the countries the US opposes (Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, Cuba) while ignoring the atrocities of the US government or its allies pretty much answers the question. Irony that you wrote the Trojan Horse article. Truly disappointing to have discovered this.

I think it's important to know if HRF is a regular human rights foundation or a geopolitical instrument that uses the language of human rights to advance US strategic interests. It's also important to know if HRF is backed by the National Endowment for Democracy - created to rebrand CIA covert operations as "democracy promotion." I didn't realize you supported a US-backed opposition and celebrated the illegal capture of a leader of a sovereign state in Venezuela, where their nation's assets were confiscated. There is nothing human rights worthy about depriving people of their own country's economic resources. I don't know if you're supporting US-backed figures like Pahlavi in Iran or influencing regime change in other countries. I firmly believe in giving people agency to fight for their own sovereignty. Using people's oppressed state to push a US agenda is deeply disturbing.

Oh yea 100%. In this multipolar chess game, China is the one not fighting, and winning. Lots to learn here. Russia has been pissed for a long time and will milk this, but they won't blindly go to war. In the Hungary war, they let the rebels believe they had won, then sent in the tanks. The US has sent half its defense overseas and is militarily weaker than China. EU leaders, Modi, Prabowo, Albanese are spineless (except Spain). Sunnis might fight Shias, and Israel gets its Greater Israel win. But the younger generation in Arab lands isn't buying the elite narrative anymore. The irony is Trump orders killings without Congress, calls itself a democracy, and calls them dictators. But the left are against this only because they are against everything Trump does, not against killing. Obama was the same. This is a dying regime's misguided desperate attempt, and now they are only going to accelerate death sooner. Iran won't stop. You pissed off their pope equivalent, in one of four countries with hypersonic missiles (the US hasn't even tested theirs successfully). And every Iranian government leader holds a PhD. They were long prepared. And right now they are all in. Khamenei was the moderate one.