Why I can’t be silent when Voice of America bans calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ | Washington Times op-ed by Ted Lipien
I cannot remain silent because those who refuse to expose terrorism or delay condemning it today will find…
Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill
USAGM Watch Commentary by Ted Lipien My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists…
Estonian-American Leader, Estonian Politician Objects to Voice of America VOA News Report on Putin’s Russia
USAGM Watch Commentary Mari-Ann Kelam, a leader in the Estonian-American community, Estonian politician, former Estonian Foreign Ministry spokesperson,…
Congress Needs to Investigate Censorship at the Voice of America
Commentary By Ted Lipien for Free Media Online There is a long history of censorship at the Voice…
HISTORY Flora Wovschin — Codename ZORA — Was The Most Active Soviet Spy But Not The Most Valuable Agent of Influence at WWII Voice of America
USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Following reports that due to multiple security violations the Office of Personnel…
Voice of America and USAGM Need Rescue
Voice of America and USAGM need rescue and good leadership as the U.S. Senate contemplates the nomination of…
Sen. Menendez sets meeting to review USAGM CEO nomination of Amanda Bennett
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a business meeting for Thursday, June 23, 2022, to review several…
Beware of Government Propaganda “Experts”
Disinformation governance by government propaganda experts can be dangerous, judging by the record of the early officials in…
Asking About Voice of America’s Stalin Peace Prize Winner May Be McCarthyism or Merely Amusing, Former VOA Director Said
Former Voice of America (VOA) director Sanford J. Ungar, who served under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, said…
U. S. Agency for Global Media USAGM and Ukraine
The U.S. Agency for Global Media still shows a press release about its poll in the Russian-occupied part…
Ukraine is the area of decision between Russia and the Free World
Ukraine is today “the area of decision between Russia and the Free World” and “the one big problem”…
80 Years of VOA: Different Names of the Voice of America
USAGM Watch Commentary 80 years ago today, on February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Symbolic Justice for Stalin’s Victims, But Not Yet From Voice of America Management
Commentaries about Stalin’s victims, Voice of America By Ted Lipien (Tadeusz Lipień) In my Washington Examiner Christmas Day…
How Zofia Korbońska, Voice of America refugee journalist, campaigned against communism, resisted German-Nazi fascism
Zofia Korbońska, a Voice of America refugee journalist, was a remarkable Polish-American woman who fought against two of…
Mark Pomar Sees Opportunity for Radio Liberty to Stand Up to Putin After Being Kicked Out from Russia, Peter Gross Noted
USAGM Watch Commentary Peter Gross, Ph.D., professor emeritus and former Director of the University of Tennessee’s School of…
Different Names of the Voice of America
Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-operated international radio broadcaster established in…
Senator Biden and Other Leaders on Transatlantic Relations – VOA’s New Europe Review 2004
By Ted Lipien In 2004, foreign language broadcasters in the Voice of America (VOA) Eurasia Division in Washington,…
HISTORY First Voice of America Director of Halloween Fake Radio News Fame
USAGM Watch Halloween Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Halloween! But don’t be fooled by fake radio news. Orson…
HISTORY Refugee Voice of America Journalists Stood Up to the Anti-Reagan VOA Newsroom and Won the Cold War
By Ted Lipien “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The…
Edward R. Murrow Would Not Have Approved of Partisan or Chinese Communist Propaganda at Voice of America
OPINION by Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) directors and some of its current and former editors and…
HISTORY WWII Voice of America Communist Propaganda to Yugoslavia
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Thanks to several lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, the U.S. Congress…
EXCLUSIVE SIDEBAR: VOA Broadcast Managers Had Access to Classified State Department Material
OPINION By Dan Robinson For many years, Voice of America broadcast managers had access to classified State Department…
Communist secret police in Poland spied on Voice of America’s Willis Conover to shut down Radio Free Europe
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Polish communist intelligence service and secret police spied on Voice…
HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…
70 Years of Radio Free Europe
USAGM Watch History U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO Michael Pack said in a message to Radio…
Happy Birthday Radio Free Europe
USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Birthday Radio Free Europe! I had lived in communist-ruled Poland until…
HISTORY Soviet Block Jamming of Western Freedom Radios
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Podcasts Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the…
HISTORY How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943
During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Voice of America Doctor Who Brought AIDS Information to USSR and Saved Lives
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum At one time during the Cold War, the taxpayer-funded, U.S.…
Voice of America Polish Service Broadcaster Irene Broni Resisted Nazis and Communists
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Irena Radwańska Broni: Returning to the U.S. citizenship oath ceremony…
1949 QSL Card from Voice of America in New York
USAGM WATCH HISTORY When Mr. Ingvar Nyberg, a shortwave radio listener in Lund, Sweden, requested a QSL card…
Voice of America WWII News Editor and Future Stalin Prize Winner Howard Fast Died on This Day in 2003
Howard Fast, best-selling American author, Communist Party USA member, and journalist who in 1943 was the chief writer…
Boris Nemtsov Defended Radio Liberty Journalists
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary We can report with some satisfaction that Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
Kirk Douglas on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien As Putin’s propagandists are again spreading lies around the world and trying to undermine American…
Memorial service in Prague for former Radio Liberty senior Russian commentator Lev Roitman
BBG – USAGM Watch A memorial service for journalist, publisher and lawyer Lev Roitman, a former Radio Free…
HISTORY Russian propaganda at WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch History Russian propaganda influence in the United States is not new. “I established contact…
Warts and All from Voice of America? Not Against Hollywood
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary This is clearly a minor sin by Voice of America’s (VOA) current standards…
Former Voice of America Russian Service chief Natasha Clarkson dead at 87
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Former Voice of America broadcaster, editor and Russian Service chief Natalia “Natasha” Clarkson…
VOA ignores VP Pence’s WWII anniversary speech in Poland
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As of 3:00 AM Central European time, September 2, 2019, the U.S. tax-funded…
Voice of America VOA English News Blows Off 80th Anniversary of Hitler-Stalin Pact
By Ted Lipien Today, August 23, marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…
An ahistorical Voice of America is dangerous for the nation
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a…
HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…
HISTORY Voice of America? – Why The Question Mark from Congress in 1948?
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of…
Winds of Freedom
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Opinion Award-winning reporter and columnist Steve Browne who saw first-hand the beginnings…
VOICE OF AMERICA – EAGLE ON THE MOON – 1969
BBG – USAGM Watch History This Cold War Radio Museum post includes a full transcript and an MP3…
VOA 1969 Radio Documentary ‘Eagle on the Moon – the Flight of Apollo 11’
BBG – USAGM Watch History You can listen to the entire Voice of America “Eagle on the Moon…
Eagle on the Moon – The Flight of Apollo 11 – 1969 Voice of America Radio Broadcast
Cold War Radio Museum’s 2019 rendition with NASA photographs of the Voice of America (VOA) 1969…
HISTORY Collusion: How the State Department tried to save Voice of America from Soviet influence in WWII
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false…
HISTORY Rep. Howard H. Buffett, Warren Buffett’s father, feared domestic VOA propaganda
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Domestic Propaganda Cold War Radio Museum has posted on its…
HISTORY Stalin Prize-Winning Chief Writer of Voice of America News
BBG – USAGM Watch History March 12 is the anniversary of the death in 2003 of Howard Fast,…