"And now one of them has vanished. Now people without the intelligence to distinguish Radio Liberty from a radio receiver have accepted an equation from the hands of executioners and tyrants. This equation is much stronger than an electric current: 2+2=5."
- Stanislav Aseyev
https://snyder.substack.com/p/225
3/3 end
"By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.
Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds."
2/3
"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.
Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."
1/3
"In violation of the law and the Constitution, the Trump administration purports to have closed Radio Free/Radio Liberty, a medium which is the source of much of what we known about Russia and the post-communist world.
If America destroys one of its own symbols, and Russia applauds it from every federal channel - then maybe 2 + 2 really does equal 5?" - Timothy Snyder
#RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty sued the #Trump admin on Tues to try to block it from terminating all federal funds for the US-backed broadcaster.
In a federal lawsuit, the network argues that the #USAGM has violated the #Constitution & federal laws by withholding money #Congress expressly allocated for the broadcaster. USAGM disburses funds to US-backed international networks, including RFE/RL, that serve foreign lands w/o a free or robust press.
#FourthEstate #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332379/rfe-rl-sues-trump-usagm-kari-lake
After Trump moved to pull the plug on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Czech foreign minister hopes the EU can keep the broadcaster ‘at least partially’ on air.
What's being missed in this #RadioLiberty/VOA closure by the #Trump admin is they will not just close, but will now be turned into privately owned #fascist #propaganda rags for the #Musk/Trump team.
Hard to understand how folks still don't see how all this works steps ahead.
To any #RadioLiberty or #VoiceofAmerica people that are losing their #jobs but want to stay in the game, resisting this global #fascist takeover, contact me and i can get you in the mix.
There's alot of us, and we're having huge impact.
Here is more on the termination of financing for RFE/RL.
Some #Republicans have accused #VOA & other publicly-funded #media outlets of being biased against *conservatives* [liars, criminals & extremists]. Last month, billionaire #ElonMusk, who is spearheading #Trump's government *downsizing* [destruction] effort, called for VOA & #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty to be shut down in a post to social media.
On its website, #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty notes that it has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian govt & warns readers in #Russia & Russia-occupied #Ukraine that they could "face fines or imprisonment for sharing, liking, commenting on, or saving our content, or for contacting us."
The #USAGM also terminated funding for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty, which broadcasts to countries in #EasternEurope, including #Russia & #Ukraine, as well as for #RadioFreeAsia, which broadcasts to #China & #NorthKorea, acc/to letters seen by Reuters.
‘Radical Left Crazy People’ - Elon Musk Calls for Closure of Radio Liberty and Voice of America
anything E.M. doesn't understand or doesn't serve to generate money is radical left and/or woke
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46888
#kyivpost.com
#WarOfAggression #European #ElonMusk #Ukraine #Armee #RadicalLeft #war #Russia #Ukraine
#RadioLiberty #VoiceOfAmerica
#перемогаYкраїни
…The husband & daughters of #AlsuKurmasheva, editor & broadcaster for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty (#RFE / #RL), the editorially independent, #US -funded #media org that reports #news in 27 languages across 23 countries from HQ in #Prague. They went from TV studios to #congress to advocacy events, trying to draw attn to the waking nightmare of the 47-yr-old veteran #journalist & American citizen imprisoned in #Russia on trumped-up charges of spreading false info about the Russian military.
Add #AlsuKurmasheva to the list of American #journalists jailed in #Russia
The #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty editor was detained in 2023. Her husband & daughters came to Washington to raise awareness & ask for help.
#InternationalLaw #law #Putin #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #HumanRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/29/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-russia-detained/
The United States of America's #PressFreedomIndex score fell from 71.22 in 2023 to 66.59 in 2024 moving it's ranking from 45th to 55th and pushing it's classification from "satisfactory" to "problematic". #NationalPublicRadio (#NPR) , #VoiceOfAmerica (#VOA), #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty (#RFERL), and #RadioFreeAsia (#RFA) have been removed as news sources.
Russia labels RFE/RL an 'undesirable organization' (more)
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-labels-rfe-rl-an-undesirable-organization/ #Ukraine #USA #UnitedStates #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #EU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk
#SupportEUfarmingBoycottPolishFarms
#NoEUPresidencyForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious
