Read More 2 minute read Putin’s influencers? Why is taxpayer-funded VOA spreading his propaganda? | The Hill | Ted LipienFebruary 8, 2024 USAGM Watch Media Commentary In a commentary published in The Hill, Ted Lipien — a former VOA Polish…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Staffers Posted Anti-Israel Content to Facebook | National ReviewJanuary 12, 2024 USAGM Watch Commentary In a comment on the Voice of America Alumni Facebook Page, Ted Lipien wrote: I…
Read More 2 minute read Why I can’t be silent when Voice of America bans calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ | Washington Times op-ed by Ted LipienNovember 22, 2023 I cannot remain silent because those who refuse to expose terrorism or delay condemning it today will find…
Read More 4 minute read Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The HillOctober 13, 2023 USAGM Watch Commentary by Ted Lipien My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists…
Read More 2 minute read Leadership failure at Voice of America and US Agency for Global Media calls for bipartisan reform | Washington Examiner Op-EdMarch 8, 2023 USAGM Watch Media Commentary When both the Washington Post and National Review report on yet another senior management-created scandal at Voice of America,…
Read More 1 minute read Voice of America’s lame excuse for censorship | Washington Examiner Op-EdDecember 7, 2022 The censorship was outrageous, as was the nonchalant manner in which senior leaders in charge of upholding the…
Read More 19 minute read HISTORY Flora Wovschin — Codename ZORA — Was The Most Active Soviet Spy But Not The Most Valuable Agent of Influence at WWII Voice of AmericaNovember 9, 2022 USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Following reports that due to multiple security violations the Office of Personnel…
Read More 1 minute read Ukraine is the area of decision between Russia and the Free WorldMarch 19, 2022 Ukraine is today “the area of decision between Russia and the Free World” and “the one big problem”…
Read More 2 minute read Black history hero Homer Smith fought racism at home and Soviet propaganda abroadFebruary 28, 2022 Smith should be recognized for his principled refusal to contribute to the manipulation of the Western media by…
Read More 16 minute read 80 Years of VOA: Different Names of the Voice of AmericaJanuary 31, 2022 USAGM Watch Commentary 80 years ago today, on February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America at 80 – VOA’s Pro-Soviet Fellow Travelers and Lessons for TodayJanuary 24, 2022 Voice of America at 80 – the hidden record of VOA’s pro-Soviet fellow travelers, Howard Fast and John…
Read More 2 minute read Symbolic Justice for Stalin’s Victims, But Not Yet From Voice of America ManagementDecember 25, 2021 Commentaries about Stalin’s victims, Voice of America By Ted Lipien (Tadeusz Lipień) In my Washington Examiner Christmas Day…
Read More 2 minute read At Voice of America, history repeats itselfNovember 17, 2021 At Voice of America, history repeats itself because of poor USAGM leadership, partisan bias and violations of VOA…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America Messaging for Taliban Endangers Afghan WomenAugust 17, 2021 Voice of America messaging for the Taliban is a result of poor leadership at the U.S. Agency for…
Read More 3 minute read How Zofia Korbońska, Voice of America refugee journalist, campaigned against communism, resisted German-Nazi fascismAugust 10, 2021 Zofia Korbońska, a Voice of America refugee journalist, was a remarkable Polish-American woman who fought against two of…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America report favored Castro regime in Cuba protests – The Washington Examiner op-edJuly 14, 2021 USAGM Watch Commentary An op-ed in The Washington Examiner analyzes an early Voice of America (VOA) central English…
Read More 2 minute read Biden can combat foreign propaganda by reforming Voice of AmericaJune 30, 2021 OPINION An op-ed in The Washington Examiner by a co-founder and supporter of USAGM Watch was written in…
Read More 3 minute read RFE/RL President Says ‘We will not be silenced’ in RussiaMay 14, 2021 USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks that he can silence Radio Liberty in…
Read More 5 minute read Mark Pomar Sees Opportunity for Radio Liberty to Stand Up to Putin After Being Kicked Out from Russia, Peter Gross NotedMay 6, 2021 USAGM Watch Commentary Peter Gross, Ph.D., professor emeritus and former Director of the University of Tennessee’s School of…
Read More 2 minute read LIPIEN – Putin is blackmailing Radio LibertyMay 4, 2021 OPINION An op-ed by Ted Lipien, former Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) president, former Voice of…
Read More 4 minute read BBC Russian: Radio Liberty and Current Time Invited Some Employees to Leave RussiaApril 15, 2021 USAGM Watch Commentary BBC Russian Service reported online that the leadership of Radio Liberty and the Current Time…
Read More 14 minute read Different Names of the Voice of AmericaDecember 5, 2020 Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-operated international radio broadcaster established in…
Read More 2 minute read ‘Voice of One America’ on Voice of America is against US lawNovember 30, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director Ted Lipien, who is a co-founder and…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America Between A Firewall and AccountabilityNovember 27, 2020 USAGM Watch OPINION and COMMENTARY By Ted Lipien What is more important: protecting Voice of America (VOA) U.S.…
Read More 6 minute read HISTORY First Voice of America Director of Halloween Fake Radio News FameOctober 31, 2020 USAGM Watch Halloween Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Halloween! But don’t be fooled by fake radio news. Orson…
Read More 18 minute read HISTORY Refugee Voice of America Journalists Stood Up to the Anti-Reagan VOA Newsroom and Won the Cold WarOctober 26, 2020 By Ted Lipien “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The…
Read More 2 minute read Dangerously naive VOA journalists make fools of themselvesOctober 8, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director (2006), who during his 34-year…
Read More 1 minute read How Voice of America lost control of its website to obscene Russian trolls for eight yearsAugust 26, 2020 OPINION “How Voice of America lost control of its website to obscene Russian trolls for eight years” by…
Read More 4 minute read USAGM Agency Honors Refugee Journalist Who Resisted Fascism and CommunismAugust 17, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien During the German-Nazi occupation of Poland, Zofia Korbońska was a member of…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America Forgets Legacy of Its Anti-Communist Refugee JournalistsAugust 9, 2020 USAGM – BBG Watch OPINION By Ted Lipien I am one of the many former Voice of America…
Read More 10 minute read HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of AmericaAugust 1, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…
Read More 2 minute read LIPIEN After a decade of extreme bias and foreign propaganda, Voice of America needs a fresh startJuly 6, 2020 OPINION Ted Lipien writes in an Washington Examiner op-ed that the Voice of America (VOA) suffered under the…
Read More 72 minute read HISTORY Soviet Block Jamming of Western Freedom RadiosJune 30, 2020 By Ted Lipien for Cold War Podcasts Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the…
Read More 6 minute read HISTORY How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943June 22, 2020 During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America Polish Service Broadcaster Irene Broni Resisted Nazis and CommunistsMarch 23, 2020 By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Irena Radwańska Broni: Returning to the U.S. citizenship oath ceremony…
Read More 13 minute read Voice of America VOA English News Blows Off 80th Anniversary of Hitler-Stalin PactAugust 23, 2019 By Ted Lipien Today, August 23, marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…
Read More 1 minute read An ahistorical Voice of America is dangerous for the nationAugust 6, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a…
Read More 53 minute read HISTORY Voice of America? – Why The Question Mark from Congress in 1948?July 24, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of…
Read More 2 minute read HISTORY Collusion: How the State Department tried to save Voice of America from Soviet influence in WWIIMay 13, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false…
Read More 5 minute read RFE/RL achieves a pro-Iran regime ‘Hate America’ impactApril 9, 2019 BBG – USAGM Guest Commentary RFE/RL from Headline to Impact By Ted Lipien How a U.S.…
Read More 45 minute read HISTORY 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of AmericaJanuary 3, 2019 OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist…
Support from George H.W. Bush convinced Lech Walesa ‘there was a real chance to get rid of communism’December 6, 2018 Cold War Radio Museum Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa said last year that in 1987 the then…
Read More 8 minute read HISTORY | President Eisenhower condemned biased Voice of America officials and reportersDecember 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the…
Read More 11 minute read Vice President George H.W. Bush interviewed for Voice of America by Ted Lipien and Wayne Corey in 1987December 1, 2018 Reposted from Cold War Radio Museum Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service director…
Read More 6 minute read Amanda Bennett WP op-ed is a “biased and fake opinion piece,” Iranian-born American journalist saidNovember 29, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Journalists formerly linked with the Voice of America (VOA) have criticized a Washington Post op-ed…
Read More 4 minute read Cold War Lessons for Voice of America in China — Plight of VOA Mandarin FiveOctober 21, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary This article is reposted from the Cold War Radio Museum – coldwarradiomuseum.com – website.…
Read More 9 minute read QUESTIONS NOT WANTED BY USAGMSeptember 17, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary This is part three of a commentary on the newly named United States Agency…
Read More 4 minute read RE-BRANDED USAGM LIMITS MEDIA COVERAGE OF WASHINGTON PR EVENT: NO QUESTIONS WANTEDSeptember 14, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary This is part one of a multipart commentary on the newly named United…
Read More 1 minute read Failure of leadership at BBG and VOA on North KoreaJune 19, 2018 BBG Watch Media Washington Examiner OPINION Obama holdovers at VOA failed to broadcast the Singapore summit into North…
Read More 10 minute read Is Voice of America again afraid of Katyn?May 16, 2018 Guest Commentary By Ted Lipien I noticed through an online search of their news websites that neither the…