{"id":367111,"date":"2018-06-28T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccarthyism-revisited\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:57:45","slug":"mccarthyism-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccarthyism-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103292\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103292\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/Welch-McCarthy-Hearings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/Welch-McCarthy-Hearings.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/Welch-McCarthy-Hearings-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by United States Senate | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Founding Father James Madison warned 230 years ago that \u201cno nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.\u201d\u00a0 In his farewell address nearly 60 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower echoed this warning regarding the impact of permanent war and a \u201cpermanent arms industry\u201d on our rights and liberties.\u00a0 Thus, it is no surprise that the past 17 years of warfare have been accompanied by a series of lost liberties; a revival of McCarthyism; and a belief in conspiracy theory that has afflicted the left wing (\u201cDeep State\u201d) as well as the right (\u201cDrain the Swamp\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Senator Joseph McCarthy\u2019s vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions led to the term \u201cMcCarthyism\u201d to describe any campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.\u00a0 During the past decade, we have experienced the Bush administration that deputized the Pentagon to spy on law-abiding citizens and expanded the scope of the National Security Agency\u2019s warrantless eavesdropping against American citizens; the Obama administration that used the Espionage Act of 1917 against whistleblowers and created an informant network among millions of federal employees to watch for \u201chigh-risk persons or behaviors\u201d among co-workers; and the Trump administration that recently seized the phone and email records from a reporter for the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, and has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/28\/mccarthyism-revisited\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by United States Senate | CC BY 2.0 Founding Father James Madison warned 230 years ago that \u201cno nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.\u201d\u00a0 In his farewell address nearly 60 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower echoed this warning regarding the impact of permanent war and a \u201cpermanent arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}