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“And so, with all due respect to the office you hold, Mr. President, the “enemy of the people” is not the press. It is you.”

Book:Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

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Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

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Marvin Kalb

Marvin Kalb is a distinguished American journalist, born on June 9, 1930. He is recognized for his extensive career in journalism, particularly his work with CBS News and CNN, where he has covered major events and been a key figure in shaping the field of journalism. more

“Not all of the New Dealers, it must be said, bought into the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. For instance, Henry Wallace, the former vice president and secretary of agriculture, who was fired by Truman for disagreeing with the Cold War’s imperatives, referred to the Marshall Plan as the ‘Martial Plan’. He warned against creating a rift with America’s wartime ally, the Soviet Union, and remarked that the conditions attached to the Soviet Union’s invitation to be part of the Marshall Plan were intentionally so designed that Stalin would be obliged to reject them (which, of course, he did). A number of academics of the New Deal generation, among them Paul Sweezy and John Kenneth Galbraith, also rejected Truman’s cold-warrior tactics. However, they were soon to be silenced by the witch-hunt orchestrated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Committee on Un-American Activities.”

Cold War Mccarthyism Red Scare Truman Doctrine

Book:The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

“Thus, beginning in 1955, a formidable file on Marilyn Monroe also began to accumulate in Washington [...]. They represent some of the most ludicrous waste of paper in history.”

Communism Fbi Mccarthyism Marilyn Monroe

Book:Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

Source: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

“As the machinations of the end-time conspiracy seemed to become more involved, some fundamentalists felt a need to monitor the enemy. Conspiracy theorists share a passion for gathering and collating data matched only by professional intelligence agencies. In 1937, the fundamentalist Church League of America, in Wheaton, Illinois, began to compile dossiers on the enemies of Christ. By the late 1960s, the group claimed to have seven million index cards on subversives, a collection they said was second only to that of the FBI. An associate of Mclntire, Major Edgar C. Bundy, assumed control of the Church League of America in 1956. Using his experience as a former Air Force intelligence officer, Bundy built up a data bank the organization had inherited from J. B. Matthews, a former investigator for Senator McCarthy.”

Religion Mccarthyism Conspiracies

Book:Architects Of Fear

Source: Architects Of Fear