POLITICS 07/23/2018 02:39 am ET Updated 2 hours ago Posts were an apparent violation of domestic anti-propaganda laws. By Mary Papenfuss The U.S. government-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty took out several Facebook ads this month targeting American readers in apparent violation of a domestic anti-propaganda law, according to a Syracuse University professor. Associate professor of communication Jennifer Grygiel discovered a series of sponsored ads aimed at U.S. users that ran on the Facebook page of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. They weren’t labeled as political ads by Facebook, nor tracked as such, said Grygiel. They were marked simply “RFE/RL sponsored,” and RFE/RL was identified as a “media/news company.” They included human-interest stories about Russians. One ad involved a graphic about NATO’s popularity posted two days after Donald Trump demanded at a heated summit in Brussels that NATO … [Read more...] about U.S.-Funded Radio Free Europe Aimed Stealth Facebook Ads At Americans: Report
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Steve Bannon Plans Far-Right Foundation In Europe
POLITICS 07/23/2018 07:18 am ET The former Trump adviser is gunning for a populist takeover. By Willa Frej Steve Bannon is taking his push for populism across the pond. The former chief strategist to President Donald Trump is setting up a Brussels-based foundation called The Movement to conduct polling, messaging, data targeting and think-tank research for far-right politicians across Europe, he told The Daily Beast on Friday. Bannon wants to create a right-wing “supergroup” within the European Parliament, he said, in order to help populists win 2019 parliamentary elections. He said he’ll spend half of his time in Europe after the U.S. midterm elections in November. “I’d rather reign in hell, than serve in heaven,” Bannon told the news outlet, quoting John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Populist movements are encroaching on mainstream European politics, evidenced by far-right victories in national elections … [Read more...] about Steve Bannon Plans Far-Right Foundation In Europe
Douglas Turner: Trump is inviting chaos in Europe
WASHINGTON – After decades of rapacious wars prompted by Germany, the North American Treaty Organization backed by the U.S. has brought 70 years of peace, freedom and prosperity to Europe. Those decades of stability are too much to bear to President Donald Trump. As World War II ended, much of Germany was seen as a deeply sick society, bred on envy, hero worship and muscularity. Proof for a teenager in Buffalo was on the screen of Shea's Elmwood Theater (since demolished). There, we watched victorious American generals march German citizens who pretended there was no Holocaust through the death factories in their countryside and in Poland. It took years of American goodwill, American money and American power to bring about a new Germany. In 1948, when Russian dictator Joseph Stalin closed all land traffic to Berlin, which was deeply inside the Russian zone, our president, Harry S. Truman, declared "We shall stay. Period." And Truman ordered a yearlong airlift to supply its … [Read more...] about Douglas Turner: Trump is inviting chaos in Europe
World War II vets recall their time in Europe
Sunday July 22, 2018 12:01 AM Russsell Sattazahn, 92, and Dr. Robert Kline, 91, were guests of honor at a re-enactment in Schaefferstown last weekend. Written by Marylouise Sholly Two World War II veterans from Schaefferstown served as guests of honor at the first re-enactment of the East Penn Re-enactors Group held at the Alexander Schaeffer Farm in southeastern Lebanon County last weekend.After watching the re-enactment battle, which the American forces won, the veterans, Russsell Sattazahn, 92, and Dr. Robert Kline, 91, shared some thoughts of the war they lived through.Sattazahn reminisced about his time in Germany from his front-row seat at the mock WWII battle.He was wounded in the war, losing an arm during a German attack."I wasn't there for the Battle of the Bulge, and I always said I was one of the lucky ones," Sattazahn said. "I was drafted right after high school, and then I never finished basic training. After the Battle of the Bulge, they needed replacements … [Read more...] about World War II vets recall their time in Europe
Letter: Watch out for Europe in dealing with Iran
Sunday July 22, 2018 12:01 AM Other governments may undermine efforts to put pressure on Tehran. Editor:" 'Escalation' between U.S., Iran forecast" (Reading Eagle, July 13) gives some information about what is happening with regard to Iran. As our secretary of state said, according to the article, we are asking our allies and partners to join our economic pressure campaign against Iran's regime. He said we must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism and proxy wars.But what would be the consequences of Europe's appeasement of the Iranian regime?An article by Michael Ledeen at frontpagemag.com explained that the Iranian regime's assassins are in action in Europe, North Africa and Saudi Arabia.Ledeen wrote that there has been an appalling move by Germany to send cash to the Iranian regime, an action that reportedly made Ledeen shudder, since its effect is to pay the world's greatest sponsor of terrorism to send assassins to the West, including here.Israel's prime … [Read more...] about Letter: Watch out for Europe in dealing with Iran