Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com At the freedom march in Wellington, NZDSOS’s Dr Matt Shelton addressed the crowds about medical freedom. He reads Vera Sharav’s speech on the 75th anniversary of Nuremberg and speaks about the lead-up to the Holocaust. The genocide and forced
It’s been a long legal slog for Zoe Buhler, but the Australian woman has finally won a free speech victory in court. Still, the two-year court grind proves that the process is ultimately the punishment. Buhler made headlines around the world in 2020, when she was arrested by three
There were two big wins for free speech in Australia this week: one for a working-class mum from Ballarat, the other for a high-profile sports commentator. One was arrested for a Facebook post, the other cancelled for a joke. Ballarat woman Zoe Buhler was arrested, pregnant and in her pyjamas,
While the New Zealand media sit on their hands pretending there is nothing to see in our story about NZ Police using Interpol to dig dirt on Avi Yemini, Andrew Bolt has featured the story last night in Australia on Sky News. Andrew Bolt said that the plot, revealed by
Barbara McKenzie Wellington Mayoral candidate stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a defamatory press statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my ‘racist and transphobic views’, while also
As uncovered by The BFD, the New Zealand police — not Immigration NZ, apparently, as was earlier claimed — actively sought to have two journalists banned from entering the country. Their internal communications left no doubt that the reasons were entirely political, profiling the journalists as “far-right” (a purely subjective political opinion)
PA Pundits – International Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com Tim Graham is the executive editor at NewsBusters, and he is the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the chain of events that led Facebook to censor the Hunter
Last week Australian journalist Avi Yemini was prevented by Immigration NZ from entering New Zealand. Media at the time suggested that the decision was made by Immigration NZ, but an investigation by The BFD suggests that it was in fact the NZ Police who were acting to stop both Avi
Information Opinion Freelance science and technology writer Peter Griffin wants us to question anti-vaccine information and climate change (just those that deny it of course), but only if we come to the conclusions he wants us to. [Fire and Fury is] the story of how a disparate group of Kiwis
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
Alon Beer brownstone.org Alon Beer is director general of SID Israel, Society for International Development Suddenly a person wakes up and discovers that he is about to be dismissed from a position to which he had been selected due to private tweets that raised doubts over the COVID policies
What does Ardern’s Government do when people stop praising it and start to complain about the high cost of living? Naturally, they say, ”Look over there!” It’s never their fault. They knew in 2018 that food products made here were cheaper to buy in Australia. Why didn’t
There’s a lot of talk about book-banning, amongst the chattering classes these days. But are books really being banned? And who’s doing it? Well, for a start, Germany’s banning books again — and they’re banning ones that even the Nazis didn’t dare. There’s more than
Jessica Corbett commondreams.org Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Human rights advocates around the world this week called on Saudi Arabia to free Salma al-Shehab after she was sentenced to 34 years in prison and a 34-year travel ban for tweets criticizing the kingdom’s repression
