The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Jett Rucker ∙ April 1, 2012
Pre-emptive censorship is a nefarious but effective form of suppression that is as close as this issue’s editorial, in which Richard Widmann reports the peremptory expungement of Inconvenient History’s two bound annual books of our Website’s articles from the offerings of their erstwhile publisher, Lulu Publishing. Not only are our laboriously compiled books no longer…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2011
In July news circled the globe that the body of Rudolf Hess, the one-time deputy to Adolf Hitler, was exhumed from a family funeral plot. His bones were cremated and scattered at an undisclosed location at sea. Karl-Willi Beck, the mayor of the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel where Hess was buried, justified the action by…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 20, 2013
By Richard A. Widmann- To Whom It May Concern, I take this moment on the anniversary of the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 to make you aware of a chilling campaign to ban books and limit freedom of expression. I have learned this morning of a campaign by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to…
By David Merlin ∙ September 28, 2013
Peter Cassells has been appointed the new Chairperson of HETI. For which he is grateful and made the following remarks. “I am honoured to be the new chairperson of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland. I congratulate the trustees on their success in establishing Holocaust education and promoting Holocaust awareness in Ireland. Knowing our history helps us…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ September 20, 2013
By History Behind Bars- Inconvenient History is an on-line quarterly journal dedicated to the free investigation of historical matters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Providing our journal for free to readers via the Web helps us to expose myths and falsehoods of our recent history to the greatest number of people. For those who…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 26, 2013
As most of you know, Canadian lawyer and free-speech standard-bearer Doug Christie died in March. I was blindsided. Looking back, I don’t understand why that was. I was aware that Doug had prostate cancer but somehow I had thought he would take care of it. While I hear regularly from Paul Fromm of the Canadian…
By Rory Carroll ∙ May 3, 2013
By Rory Carroll in Los AngelesWriting for The Guardianhttp://tinyurl.com/cksga9w Friday 3 May 2013 22.15 BST To those who knew him, or thought they knew him, he was a cerebral, fun-loving gadfly who hosted boozy gatherings for Hollywood's political conservatives. David Stein brought right-wing congressmen, celebrities, writers and entertainment industry figures together for shindigs, closed to…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ May 5, 2013
By History Behind Bars- Inconvenient History is now in its fifth year of publication. We have published over 128 articles of hard-hitting historical truth. Clearly Inconvenient History (IH) is here to stay, but we can really use your help. Thousands of people read IH but very few contribute. Years ago the only way we could…
By Mark Weber ∙ June 1, 2002
The State Department has finally acknowledged that the United States government pressured Lebanon to ban a peaceful four-day meeting that was to be held in Beirut in the spring of 2001. Gregg Sullivan, a spokesman for the Departments Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, confirmed during telephone conversations with IHR director Mark Weber on December 10…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ March 1, 2002
[Dr. Faurisson wrote this article some eight months ago. While some of the legal circumstances have changed (as the preceding article makes clear), his description of the continuing persecution of revisionists in France, Switzerland, and elsewhere in Europe has lost none of its freshness, acuity, or defiance. – Editor] Robert Faurisson is Europe’s foremost Holocaust…
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