free speech

Image: French Muslims have been complaining of restrictions on performing their religious practices and discrimination.

 There are more doubts and questions in the Charlie Hebdo affair than there will ever be answers. In part this is because the French security forces silenced witnesses, killing three assumed perpetrators in a display which seems to say that Dirty Harry movies are now part of French training programs.

 

This week's New Yorker cover -- "Solidarité," by Ana Juanby KenI've refrained from comment on the horrors in Paris, because really what is there to say? The realities of the situation are at once clear and deeply twisted, at once a challenge to conscience and a summons to abject hopelessness.

In Hollande’s Orwellian France, “free speech” is reserved only for those who defame Islam, whereas critics of Zionism and Jewish exceptionalism are first stigmatized and then criminalized – a tribute to the real power behind the throne of that once-free country.

 

An organization whose reputation is in tatters links its new document to a rude, intolerant, highly politicized climate crusader.

On this episode of the Non-Aligned Media podcast, host Brandon Martinez is joined by Canadian patriot and dissident publisher Arthur Topham.
For decades Arthur has been publishing critical commentaries on geopolitics and history with a particular focus on the destructive impact of Zionism on Canada and the world. Due to his anti-Zionist views, Topham has run afoul of Canada’s self-appointed thought police who have relentlessly harassed and pursued him for the ill-defined and erroneous crime of “hate.”

Arthur Topham, a Canadian and resident of British Columbia, was charged in 2012 under the Criminal Code with “willfully promoting hatred” for some of his articles at his site, Radical Press. On September 24, 2014, the Ontario Civil Liberties Association has publicly come out in support of Topham’s right to free expression and has created […]

Isn't this a better look for Senate Minority Leader "Miss Mitch" McConnell? Even with the still-clenched body language, doesn't he seem worlds kinder and gentler?by KenSo this morning on the radio they were playing clips from the Senate dialogue on a bill that I gather is intended to increase transparency in political contributions.

The noble, beating heart of science is no more. Peer pressure, conformity, orthodoxy - these remain.