{"id":750590,"date":"2022-07-19T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=249670"},"modified":"2022-07-19T05:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:45:06","slug":"an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-america-and-we-were-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/19\/an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-america-and-we-were-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iron Curtain is Descending on America and We Were Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great patriots have warned Americans of the possibility an Iron Curtain of authoritarianism could descend upon America, making America over in the image of its Fascist enemies. President Dwight Eisenhower in his first major presidential speech, The Cross of Iron, on April 16, 1953, laid out several critical precepts that ought guide US conduct in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/19\/an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-america-and-we-were-warned\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/19\/an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-america-and-we-were-warned\/\">An Iron Curtain is Descending on America and We Were Warned<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/19\/an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-america-and-we-were-warned\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great patriots have warned Americans of the possibility an Iron Curtain of authoritarianism could descend upon America, making America over in the image of its Fascist enemies. President Dwight Eisenhower in his first major presidential speech, The Cro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750590"}],"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\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750591,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750590\/revisions\/750591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}