Trump Declares War on Public Media

Trump Declares War on Public Media

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The U.S. President is waging an ideological battle against cultural institutions such as universities, museums, the media, schools and even the judiciary, through which the Administration passes its coercive machine to punish its enemies.The U.S. Supreme Orders Trump to suspend deportations based on the Foreign Enemies Act When Professor Samuel Redman finishes one of his history classes at the University of Massachusetts, he cannot help but thin…

Op-ed: The Trump administration’s attack on the public media is an attack on the public

The first rule in the despotic leader playbook is to attempt to control the press. In 1930s Germany, Nazis broke into the offices of opposing political parties and destroyed their printing presses. In 1940s Russia, formerly the USSR, the communist party commandeered the media, controlling the flow of information by suppressing foreign correspondents.  Now, this tactic has reached today’s America as agents from the Department of Government Effici…