{"id":1943380,"date":"2023-06-03T05:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-state-department-launches-multimillion-dollar-push-to-fight-climate-change-teach-gender-studies-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:24:21","slug":"bidens-state-department-launches-multimillion-dollar-push-to-fight-climate-change-teach-gender-studies-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-state-department-launches-multimillion-dollar-push-to-fight-climate-change-teach-gender-studies-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s State Department spends millions to combat climate change and promote gender studies in Iraq."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-state-department-launches-multimillion-dollar-push-to-fight-climate-change-teach-gender-studies-in-iraq%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Biden Administration to Spend Millions Teaching Iraqis About Climate Change and Gender Diversity<\/h2>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration is prepared to shell out up to $12 million to teach Iraqis how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-concerning-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Concerning Foreign Policy\">fight climate change<\/a> and appreciate &#8220;gender diversity,&#8221; an effort it says will help strengthen democracy in the Middle Eastern nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The State Department is offering three universities in Iraq up to $4 million each to develop programs that focus on gender issues and the impacts of climate change. The goal is to create &#8220;progressive curricula&#8221; that will strengthen the diversity of American-style Iraqi institutions of higher education. The programs must also have a recruitment plan for students who will work towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/landmark-climate-study-says-melting-arctic-wont-lead-to-more-severe-cold-weather\/\" title=\"Landmark Climate Study Says Melting Arctic Won\u2019t Lead to More Severe Cold Weather\">reducing greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> and other areas related to climate change.<\/p>\n<h3>Exporting American Ideas to Foreign Countries<\/h3>\n<p>This grant is typical of Washington&#8217;s current effort to export American ideas to foreign countries through diplomacy and aid. However, the Biden administration has a long history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-state-department-launches-multimillion-dollar-push-to-fight-climate-change-teach-gender-studies-in-iraq\/\" title=\"Biden's State Department spends millions to combat climate change and promote gender studies in Iraq.\">sending taxpayer money overseas<\/a> for questionable left-wing initiatives. In 2023 alone, the administration has funded projects that aim to help disabled people in Tajikistan become &#8220;climate leaders,&#8221; develop a climate change podcast in India that inspires the country&#8217;s &#8220;changemakers&#8221; to live &#8220;lifestyles with more sustainable choices,&#8221; and teach Brazilian &#8220;trans activists&#8221; how to speak English.<\/p>\n<h3>Pushing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The State Department grant also makes an explicit request for diversity, equity, and inclusion to be pushed on Iraqi universities, listing them as among the acceptable activities for funding. The department describes the need to focus on equity for &#8220;transgender and queer&#8221; Iraqis. When reviewing grant applications, the State Department will evaluate prospective grantees based on how well they &#8220;incorporate Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility&#8221; into their staffing.<\/p>\n<h3>Left-Wing Trustees on the Board<\/h3>\n<p>The American University of Iraq Sulaimani, one of the larger American-style institutions of higher education in the country, has a number of left-wing trustees on its board. Among them are Eli Sugarman, who served on Facebook&#8217;s content moderation oversight board and has criticized former president Donald Trump; David Skaggs, a former Democratic congressman with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" title=\"Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media\">liberal voting record<\/a>; and Mina Al-Oraibi, a World Economic Forum-linked journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The university, per its website, does not have a DEI office, but in 2017, it became the first university to offer a gender studies minor in Iraq. If approved for the State Department grant, the university could receive funding to establish a DEI office and expand its offerings on gender studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to $12 million to promote climate change awareness and gender diversity, with the aim of bolstering democracy in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":1943381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9650,3706,5103,4321,4724,4685,17259,4961,5800,6388,4039],"class_list":["post-1943380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-combat","tag-bidens","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-department","tag-gender","tag-iraq","tag-millions","tag-promote","tag-spends","tag-studies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}