Translation: US shuts down its big radio #AmericanEmpire #propaganda channel; other nations propaganda channel ready to fill the void.
> As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/as-trump-silences-voice-of-america-russia-and-china-seize-the-opportunity-to-reshape-africas-news-ecosystem/
@w7voa #WashingtonHasFallen in the chaos of #AmericanCarnage2.0, and the Voice Of #America #VOA has literally gone silent. 
The voices spreading propaganda from authoritarian dictators in #Russia and #China is now filling the airwaves instead.
#Resist to #SaveAmerica from #fascism. Join the #50501movement near you!
"#VOA told the Chinese people about the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in #Tiananmen Square and the deadly #COVID outbreak in Wuhan when their own government wouldn't. It beamed reports into Iran about the democracy protests in 2009, it told the people of North Korea about their government's gulags and Russians about atrocities in Ukraine. VOA has been supported by every president since 1942 – Republican and Democrat … all but one."
https://youtu.be/lAmhbchfxDA
Another Victim Of Musk’s DOGE Chainsaw: What The GOPs silencing of ‘Voice of America’ means for listeners worldwide | 60 minutes (CBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #VoA #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #BoycottX #Tesla #Musk #ElonMusk #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Da said he learned some of his English in college while listening to #VOA broadcasts & also learned news that wasn't reported in the Chinese media.
Da acknowledges that in recent years, VOA was less important as the internet spread. But he says another agency mattered more: the U.S. Agency for International Development (#USAID).
Liberals only care about expanding US imperialism through soft power organizations like VOA and USAID.
Trump’s administration is using barbarism power.
It is time for a socialist revolution.
@w7voa
"Someone" seems to be coaching #DictatorDonnie on how to silence The Media (#VOA), but I can't quite put my finger on who. 
https://niemanreports.org/putin-ukraine-russia-media/
A federal judge has issued a restraining order against #KariLake & the #Trump admin barring the cancelation of funding for #RadioFreeEurope.
The decision to terminate, the judge says, appears to violate the #law & the intent of #Congress.
Voice of America, created to counter Nazi propaganda, was rejected by the Soviets and by Vladimir Putin. But some in Moscow wax nostalgic about what the state-funded broadcaster meant for them, especially during the Cold War. #VOA #Russia #Trump
Posted into WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN YOUR WORLD @what-just-happened-in-your-world-csmonitor
Trump’s shuttering of global media agency endangers reporters, staff say
Foreign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the Trump administration say they face deportation to their home countries,
where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration moved to defund the US Agency for Global Media
( #USAGM ), an independent federal agency that oversees the Voice of America ( #VoA ),
the US’s largest and oldest international broadcaster,
and provides grants to Radio Free Europe and other news agencies.
Staff have been placed on administrative leave and contractors have been fired.
The agency had around 3,500 employees with an annual budget of $886m in 2024.
“We have many coworkers in different services, several of whom came here and sought asylum visas.
If their own government knew they worked for RFA [Radio Free Asia] and they went back to their own country, their lives would be at risk,”
Jaewoo Park, a journalist for RFA, who was placed on administrative leave along with all of his coworkers, told the Guardian.
“Authoritarian governments have praised what Trump is doing right now,” Park said.
“In Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, there were people who fought for freedom and democracy, and they came to work at RFA.
It’s very risky for them. Their lives are in danger if Radio Free Asia doesn’t exist.”
Chinese and Russian state media have praised the cuts of the news agencies,
with a Russian broadcaster calling the cuts a “holiday” for Russian state media outlets.
The shuttering of the agency was unexpected and has caused chaos for Park and others.
“My wife is 28 weeks pregnant and we’re very concerned because I might go back to South Korea because I’m on a working visa.
My wife is almost due and we just bought a home last year,” he added.
“It’s very concerning and depressing.”
But the impact of the decision will be felt globally, said Park.
He cited Radio Free Asia’s broadcasts to North Korea which, he noted, defectors from North Korea have cited as an important source of independent news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/trump-shuttering-global-media-agency-endangers-reporters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#VOA SUES #TRUMP: Journalists from Voice of America and their unions have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, Reuters reported. They claim that the closure of news agencies violates the Constitution, infringing workers' right to freedom of speech.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/voice-america-employees-sue-trump-administration-over-shuttered-us-funded-news-2025-03-21/
@w7voa not to nitpick, but have you considered seeking a different blogging platform? ANYTHING that is NOT #substack ? They are eager supporters and funders of the machinery that dismantled #VoA and erodes democracy in the US.
Ghost is a fantastic alternative that is open sourced, not owned by broligarchs.
P.S. with you and VoA folks, all the way.
Federal lawsuit says Trump administration unlawfully shuttered the Voice of America
“While there are bright spots within the agency with personnel who are talented and dedicated public servants, this is the exception rather than the rule.” – Kari Lake
Per Ben Wittes: Fundraiser for U.S. international media workers (i.e., Voice of America, et al.) affected by Presidents Trump-Musk shutdown of U.S. Agency for Global Media. #VOA #USAGM #journalism #coup #authoritarianism #fundraiser https://secure.givelively.org/donate/usagm-employee-association/support-for-us-international-media-workers
More on #IMLS shutdown:
On March 14, 2025,… #Trump …issued an #EO that called for the dismantling of 7 #FederalAgencies…. They ranged from the #USAGM, which oversees #VOA, to the #MBDA.
The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services was also on the list. #Congress created the IMLS in 1996 through the Museum & Library Services Act. The #law merged the Inst of Museum Services, which was established in 1976, w/the Library Prgms Office of the Dept of #Education.
#USpol
https://theconversation.com/trump-administration-seeks-to-starve-libraries-and-museums-of-funding-by-shuttering-this-little-known-agency-252455
#VOA #LiamScott #PressFreedom
For the first time since its creation, in 1942, to combat Nazi propaganda, VOA has gone silent. Dozens of VOA staffers in Washington are on J-1 visas, and if they lose them, they may have to return to countries whose governments have a record of jailing critics.
The Last Days at Voice of America
"Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise."
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/last-days-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php
Donald Trump's dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says.
@CBSNews reports: "VOA reports news about the U.S. in nearly 50 languages — with much of its focus trained on countries that lack a free press."
#BBCNews - 'Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump cuts to Voice of America
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o
#VOA #RFERL
