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Our turn to pony up for freedom

Petr Honzejk Hospodarske Noviny The Czech Republic is a free country today partly thanks to Radio Free Europe, said Petr Honzejk. The U.S.-funded radio stations offered us “an alternative to regime propaganda” when we were suffering under totalitarian rule, and in gratitude our dissident-turned-president, Vaclav Havel, offered it a home in Prague after communism fell. Now it and its sister organizations like Radio Liberty and Radio Farda broadcast in local languages to Asia and the Middle East as well as the former Soviet region, “bringing hope to” some 50 million people over the airwaves and the internet. These broadcasts provide some of the only truthful reporting some oppressed people can access. Yet Donald Trump has decided to yank funding for all that programming, just to save a mere $142 million a year.…
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