Free Speech + Censorship

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.

Learning Nothing from the Past

By Richard A. Widmann- In stark opposition to George Santayana’s now clichéd quote about learning from history, revisionist pioneer Harry Barnes in his  History and Social Intelligence  boldly noted that he did “not accept the view that history can in many cases be directly useful to the present generation through the discovery of alleged specific…

David Irving’s Website Attacked

By Richard A. Widmann- News this morning tells of hackers who broke into David Irving's Website(s) and internet accounts. They apparently stole private information including ID's and passwords and even bank account information. They took mailing lists and destroyed content on his Website. This same group, or an associated group also sought to have events…

A Call for Dissident Writers

By Richard A. Widmann- Today certain historical studies are strongly discouraged and in certain once-free democracies even outlawed. But a recent interest in discovering the facts about the twentieth century’s two world wars and their aftermath as well as the consequences of those events inspires us with new courage and optimism. Harry Barnes said that…

A Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Inquiry

By Richard A. Widmann- Slightly over 30 years ago, James J. Martin, one of the deans of revisionist history of the twentieth century coined the term “Inconvenient History” with his collection of essays, The Saga of Hog Island. Long before Al Gore would speculate on the “Inconvenient Truth” of global warming, James Martin was already…

Tales of the Politically Correct: “Belsen was a Gas” flap

Hardly a day goes by without someone apologizing for something they said or did or someone else demanding that someone issue such an apology. Political correctness has been stepped up to a McCarthy-like level with the “guilty” parties finding themselves ostracized, boycotted, persecuted, and in some once-democratic countries of Europe, even imprisoned. In this brave…

Is the Holocaust an Indisputable Fact As World Leaders Say?

On December 11 and 12 of 2006, a watershed event took place in this history of the Holocaust revisionist movement, that group of scholars, intellectuals and activists who claim there are lies and exaggerations in the traditional Jewish Holocaust story. The Islamic Republic of Iran hosted a two-day conference on the Holocaust, in which both…

George Bush and the Iran Holocaust Revisionist

President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NWWashington, DC 20500 December 12, 2006 President Bush: In a Yahoo news missive of December 12, 2006, it stated that your administration condemned the recent Iran Holocaust revisionist conference. I quote the article: “In Washington, the White House condemned Iran for convening a conference it called 'an…

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