China s quest for global dominance has resulted in suppression of media and critical reporting in the country as several media houses and journalists are being intimidated and the flow of information is brought under strict control, revealed a recently released report by US-based think tank Freedom House on Tuesday.
seeing on the ground is exactly what president obama stated. people want to know, who is fighting for me? who is fighting for me on these economic issues, on gas prices, under suppresses, on economic freedom, and i include abortion in the economic freedom. you cannot choose whether or want to get pregnant, you are not free at this economic constraints. i would say, people are asking me to, and i am telling them, i am delivered. my opponent is an empty shell who is only for himself. he is in this for himself. he is not in it for anybody on the ground, and voters want to know that their elected officials are going to washington, d.c. to actually represent them. and i do believe that people are not pushing back hard enough. i think sometimes, we are not seeing the press actually ask, what is your plan, mr. republican candidate? what is your plan to get this done because i have a plan, and i have been talking to voters
to educators, to librarians and to students that certain perspectives, certain ideas are off limits and that truly is a demonstrably negative effect on democracy. looking at what s behind this, i mean, historically book banning seems to peak during times of societal change, especially when the status quo is being challenged. is that what you re seeing now? this is certainly not isolated. one of the other trends that pen america has been tracking is this trend of what we call educational gag orders. legislative attempts to regulate school curricula, to say certain topics are off limits. i think we are certainly seeing here a movement to try to control something and it could be based in a lack of understanding, it could be based in fear, it could be based in a concern about other viewpoints being raised, but the bottom line is that it actually is harmful and it is really against
protest, still trying to share information. now, it s unclear though effective this will be, how much it gives access to iranians on the ground, but it s that fear of what s happening behind the blackout without the eyes of the international community on the ground, kim. plenty of international support for those protesters. salma, as you say, a very volatile situation. the question is what happens next? reporter: i think if you look historically at what the iranian government does when it faces dissent, when it faces protests and demonstrations it s very, very clear, it brutally cracks down, it uses deadly force, it deploys security forces on the ground and that s what we re seeing right now and it continues to do that, that s what we saw in the green movement in 2009, in fuel protests in 2019, the iranian government continues to do that, continues to use that brute force until it suppresses, until it squashes dissent. that has yet to work so far. so that s what s so worrying is
investigations are partisan in nature or entirely political. now, our friend at the washington post, charles blow, suggests this. we must stop thinking it is hyperbolic to say that the republican party itself is now a threat to our democracy. i understand the queasiness about labeling many of our fellow americans in that way. i understand that it sounds extreme and overreaching. but how else are we to describe what we are seeing? republicans are the threat to our democracy, because their own preferred form of democracy, one that excludes and suppresses, giving republicans a fighting chance of maintaining control, is in danger. for modern republicans, democracy only works and is only worth it when and if they win. it s where we begin the hour with congressman adam schiff of california, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, as well as a member of the house select committee on january 6th. his book covered a lot of this ground, midnight in washington: how we almost lost o