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\"\"<\/a>Jason Walsh, of Ireland’s forth magazine<\/a>, attempts to separate the news from the propaganda on the international airwaves \u2013 and finds it impossible<\/p>\n

IMAGINE THERE was a communications medium that spanned virtually the entire globe and was virtually impossible to censor. Now imagine that, unlike the internet, it couldn\u2019t be switched-off by the powers that be and didn\u2019t require expensive equipment or monthly subscription fees to access. That would be a powerful voice for democracy, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Walsh, of Ireland’s forth magazine, attempts to separate the news from the propaganda on the international airwaves \u2013 and finds it impossible IMAGINE THERE was a communications medium that spanned virtually the entire globe and was virtually impossible to censor. Now imagine that, unlike the internet, it couldn\u2019t be switched-off by the powers that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[237,236,4082],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","tag-clandestine-stations","tag-forth-magazine","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20144,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/update-cold-war-clandestine-radio-from-greece\/","url_meta":{"origin":670,"position":0},"title":"Update: Cold War Clandestine Radio from Greece","author":"Thomas","date":"July 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday, I published\u00a0a post referencing Cold War Clandestine Radio from Greece\u00a0with links to Richard Cummings' excellent website Cold War Radio Vignettes. 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