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 Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ May 1, 1993
A Sacred Cow Is Gored Among the Longhorns Theodore J. O'Keefe is an editor with the Institute for Historical Review, and former editor of the Journal. Educated at Harvard University, he is the author of numerous articles on historical and political subjects. On February 19, after 15 months of intimidation and pressure by the Anti-Defamation…
By Douglas Collins ∙ October 1, 1991
When I accepted the invitation to make this address I made it clear that I am not an expert on what is called “the Holocaust, ” and would not be able to tell you anything about this subject that you don't already know. But I may be able to bring the perspective of one who…
By John T. Bennett ∙ October 1, 1991
George Orwell said that “anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself being silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.” J.S. Mill said that “unmeasured vituperation, employed on the side of prevailing opinion, deters people from expressing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who express them.”…
By James Joseph Martin ∙ July 1, 1990
When Secretary of War Newton D. Baker issued his directive of late summer and early fall of 1918 ordering the removal of 47 published works from U.S. Army post and camp libraries as unfit for the soldiery to read, he opened up an immense subject, potentially. This was especially true after his action spilled over…
By Institute For Historical Review ∙ July 1, 1990
As a Public Service, The Journal of Historical Review runs the advertisement on the facing page. We fully subscribe to the American Booksellers Association's bold credo of First Amendment rights. We furthermore have every intention of reminding the various publishers, writers, magazine wholesalers, librarians and booksellers listed of the duties incumbent in their stewardship of…
By Noam Chomsky ∙ April 1, 1986
The following essay first appeared in the Camera, Boulder, Colorado, in September, 1985. It is a rejoinder to a reply by Henry Smokier to a nationally syndicated article by Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff protesting the cancellation of a Cornell Medical School commencement speech by Professor Chomsky. The cancellation was the work of Zionists fearful…
By Wilhelm Stäglich ∙ April 1, 1988
While an officer in a German anti-aircraft unit in 1944, Wilhelm Stäglich was for several months stationed in the vicinity of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The postwar doubts he expressed about alleged mass exterminations carried out at Auschwitz have led to twenty years of disciplinary proceedings, including his early retirement from the judiciary with a…
By John T. Bennett ∙ April 1, 1985
“Who controls the past controls the future.Who controls the present controls the past”– O'Brien in 1984 “Every government is run by liarsand nothing they say should be believed.”– I. F. Stone Many of the predictions made by George Orwell in his book 1984 in relation to “Big Brother” surveillance, corruption of language and control of…
By Mark Weber ∙ April 1, 1985
During the Second World War, George Orwell wrote a weekly radio political commentary, designed to counter German and Japanese propaganda in India, that was broadcast over the BBC overseas service. His wartime work for the BBC was a major inspiration for his monumental novel, 1984. Very few readers of 1984 know, for example, that Orwell's…
By Hellmut Diwald ∙ March 1, 1980
Editor’s Note The following is taken from the Austrian student periodical Die Aula (No. 3, 1980, pp. 9–10), A-8010 Graz, Merangasse 13, Austria. Professor Hellmut Diwald, distinguished professor of history at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, West Germany, became a figure of some considerable controversy in academic and press circles with the publication in 1978…
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