Only days after a victory for free speech in the United States comes a major defeat for free speech in Venezuela. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez forced cable television providers to stop transmitting Radio Caracas Television because the station was not broadcasting his official propaganda messages. Chavez had previously forced RCTV off the air by revoking [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court recently create a surprising and welcome roadblock in the path of those who seek to destroy free speech in the United States. In a narrow victory for freedom, the judges ruled 5-4 that groups of Americans who organize as corporations and labor unions do not lose their rights to free speech [...]
The socialist government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) just sentenced Liu Xiaobo to eleven years in prison for “inciting to subvert state power.” Liu is one of the authors of Contract 08, an open letter calling for legal reforms, democracy and protection of human rights in China. Contract 08 has been signed by [...]
Who’s Afraid of Fox News? Apparently, the Obama administration. On 23 August, Tammy Duckworth, Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. You can read the transcript here. Duckworth made some statements which simply were not true and Chris “fact checked” her — that is to say, he corrected [...]
Every year since 1999, the U.N. has voted in support of a resolution which is misleadingly named “Combating the Defamation of Religion.” This resolution is sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a powerful group of Islamic nation states which dominates the U.N. General Assembly. This resolution “stresses the need to effectively combat [...]
