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It Is Darkest Before Dawn

It Is Darkest Before Dawn

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. It’s been a painful four years watching the

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Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Brownstone Institute Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. After 12 years of confinement, Julian Assange now stands on the verge of freedom after agreeing to a guilty plea in exchange for

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Google Is at It Again

Michael Morris Michael B. Morris, Esq. has been MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Director since November 2022. Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in

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Court Threatens Rights of Media After Release of Documents

Court Threatens Rights of Media After Release of Documents

Charlie Tidmarsh Charlie Tidmarsh edits RealClear’s Censorship page and contributes writing on free speech issues. On March 27, 2023, Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale) entered the Covenant School armed with three semiautomatic guns and murdered six people, including three nine-year-old children. Hale, who was eventually shot and killed by

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Why Did NZ’s Govt Scrap This Idea?

Why Did NZ’s Govt Scrap This Idea?

Fiona Sing, University of Auckland, and Antonia Lyons, University of Auckland The coalition government has scrapped efforts to modernise New Zealand’s out-of-date online safety rules, despite qualified support for change from social media and tech giants. The aim of the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms project, led by

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The Supreme Court Just Gave Us Hope

The Supreme Court Just Gave Us Hope

brownstone.org The Supreme Court handed down a victory for political freedom last week in National Rifle Association v. Vullo that may lay the groundwork for lawsuits featuring dissidents against the Covid regime, including Berenson v. Biden and Murthy v. Missouri. In Vullo, the Court considered whether the New York

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Is It All Now Unravelling?

brownstone.org The past few days have been a whirlwind. We’ve seen a torrential flood of information coming from Fauci’s old office (with 155 pages of jaw-dropping emails) and the firing up of a global movement to stop the World Health Organization, which meets and votes next week.

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Book Burning Goes Digital

Book Burning Goes Digital

brownstone.org In March 2021, the Biden White House initiated a brazenly unconstitutional censorship campaign to prevent Americans from buying politically unfavourable books from Amazon. The effort, spearheaded by White House censors including Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty, began on March 2, 2021, when Slavitt emailed Amazon demanding to speak

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Do We Want a Global Surveillance State?

Jaimie Stevenson Jaimie Stevenson JD (Monash) is a legal consultant for Australian-based SMEs, specialising in technology, data, privacy and IP law. She is passionate about the rule of law, as opposed to arbitrary rules, and minimal government encroachment on the inherent rights of the individual including freedom, autonomy and dignity.

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This Week in Censorship

This Week in Censorship

Charlie Tidmarsh realclearwire.com The curation at RealClear Censorship this week reflects on a dramatic, defining moment for free speech in this country. On April 17, students at Columbia University began an occupation of the campus in protest of Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Specifically, hundreds of students

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How Not to Counter the Radical Right

Rita Abrahamsen Michael Williams Professor of International Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa National Conservatism conferences, one of the main meeting grounds for the global radical right, rarely attract much attention. If not for the decision of a local mayor, the same neglect would have befallen this year’

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The Face Behind Australia’s Censorship Push

The Face Behind Australia’s Censorship Push

Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett is a Brownstone Institute fellow, independent journalist and advocate for Australians injured by the Covid vaccines. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia, and writes for her Substack, Dystopian Down Under. Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow, journalist,

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The Teams Are Set for World War III

The Teams Are Set for World War III

Toby Rogers Toby Rogers has a PhD in political economy from the University of Sydney in Australia and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focus is on regulatory capture and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Rogers does grassroots political organizing with

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The Numbers Favor Our Side

Bill Rice Bill Rice, Jr is a freelance journalist in Troy, Alabama. brownstone.org For me, it’s not difficult to see what the world’s real rulers are trying to achieve. They’re trying to obtain more power and control for themselves. In fact, they’ve largely already achieved

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Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org “Power

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Police Protect Young Female Pro-life Speaker From Screaming Pro-abortion Mob in Manchester

Right To Life UK * Video footage captures screaming mob hurling abuse and attempting to intimidate female pro-life speaker * Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 designed to protect free expression on campus – advocates call for Manchester University to uphold higher standards A “screaming pro-abortion mob” forced local police to provide

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