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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

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Well, it's out there now!😁 Just watched it and it's as bad as I thought it'd be, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib all in one... just by proxy this time.😒 As a long time shortwave listener I often relied on Voice of America to fill in the details of newspapers and evening news reports from around the world.

Charlie English wrote an incredible book about how the CIA worked with underground publishers and people who travelled throughout Europe frequently to smuggle local-language “subversive” books into Poland and other Eastern Bloc countries. “The CIA Book Club”

It was just a few weeks ago that I observed the United States, having launched a massive effort to seed liberal democracy in Arab countries starting merely 20-odd years ago, now runs its government like an grubby Arab monarchy. I suppose government censorship is an extension of that.