{"id":1381852,"date":"2023-12-09T14:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e0343d595ed0f5fba1a84f10742613b3"},"modified":"2023-12-09T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:26:33","slug":"the-us-condemned-stalins-prosecution-of-journalists-now-it-uses-his-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/09\/the-us-condemned-stalins-prosecution-of-journalists-now-it-uses-his-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Condemned Stalin\u2019s Prosecution of Journalists. Now It Uses His Playbook."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my colleagues &mdash; Evan Gershkovich in Moscow and Julian Assange in London &mdash; languish in prisons for doing their job: keeping you informed. Russia and the U.S., knowingly or not, are following Joseph Stalin&rsquo;s press playbook. A case in point: the Stalinist persecution of U.S. journalist William (Bill) Nathan Oatis in Cold War Czechoslovakia, which mirrors the contemporary prosecutions of my...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-us-condemned-stalins-prosecution-of-journalists-now-it-uses-his-playbook\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-us-condemned-stalins-prosecution-of-journalists-now-it-uses-his-playbook\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution of Julian Assange in 2023 mirrors the prosecution of journalist Bill Oatis during the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1228,71973,116,117,4721,653],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381856,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381852\/revisions\/1381856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}