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Tag: Freedom of speech

  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Palestine Exception Defeated in Court

    Last Friday afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched an attack on free speech, instructing his Attorney General to file an emergency injunction to prevent the Al-Quds Day march from taking place in Toronto. Ford’s action came just one day after his meeting with Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, and Israel’s Consul General in Toronto, […]

  • Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture

    If Baud, then we are all potential targets now! Jacques Baud’s case is mind-boggling. A Swiss citizen, a former NATO-, OSCE- and UN-related colleague and author who relies mainly on Western sources, has been sanctioned by the European Union. There is no evidence that he worked with or for Russia. His “crime” is interpretation: offering […]

  • Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union, and Free Speech

    At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of sanctions upon individuals deemed hostile to free speech. On December 23, the US State Department announced that it would bar five European citizens accused of spearheading efforts to pressure US tech giants to censor […]

  • Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches

    The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the commissar-minded eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, “age-restricted social media platforms will have to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under […]

  • ‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

    ‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

    And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to cut federal funding to nine prominent colleges unless they restricted campus speech that opposed conservatives. “Academic freedom is not absolute,” read part of a Compact for Excellence in Higher Education that offered the schools preferential research funding if they […]

  • How can the British Establishment maintain credibility in proscribing a non-violent direct action group as a terrorist organization?

    In proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, along with criminalizing many of those who have challenged this government policy decision, the British Government has opened itself up to criticism and ridicule. In the past few months alone, there have been over 2,000 politically motivated arrests, mostly of elderly people who have held up placards […]

  • How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    Draw the Line action, Ottawa, September 20, 2025, part of a country-wide day of action against the Carney government’s anti-social pro-war agenda. The measures taken by the Carney government since it took over power after the last election confirm this government’s adherence to the methods Carney and several of his ministers and point men of […]

  • Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

    Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

    Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter. —George Carlin Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, […]

  • This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution

    This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution

    That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of […]

  • The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

    The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

    The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable… — H.L. Mencken, “Le Contrat Social” in Prejudices: Third Series […]

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