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 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 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 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 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…
By Ibrahim Alloush ∙ September 1, 2001
Defective Strategies for Coping with External Threats: A Preview Children sometimes mimic the sounds and gestures of characters, whether fictitious or real, that they see as frightening and omnipotent, including parents, teachers, and older siblings. These become rich sources for emulation in play, alone or with other children. From the inception of consciousness, humans search…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 2001
April 10, 2001 To:Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said)Mahmoud DarwishMohammed HarbiElias KhouryGerard KhourySalah StetieMohamad BeradaJamel Eddine Ben SheikhEdward W. SaidDominique EddeFayez MallasFarouk Mardam-BeyKhalida SaidElias Sanbar Recently you issued a public statement calling on authorities in Lebanon to ban the “Revisionism and Zionism” conference in Beirut, scheduled for March 31 through April 3, which our Institute had been…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ September 1, 2001
This essay is adapted from Robert Faurisson’s foreword to Fredrick Töben’s forthcoming book, When Truth is No Defence: I Want to Break Free For the historian, the sociologist, or the jurist, the case of Australian revisionist Fredrick Töben is one of the simplest and most instructive. It is also both appalling and amusing. One day,…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 2001
Whoever doubted the social-political importance of Holocaust revisionism could doubt it no more following the success of frantic efforts this March by Jewish groups, supported by the U.S. government, to ban a peaceful, privately organized revisionist meeting in Lebanon. Caving in to pressure from the State Department and powerful Zionist organizations, the Lebanese government banned…
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