Sweden’s parliament adopted a major espionage law expansion that will permit the country’s police to investigate journalists, publishers, and whistleblowers if they reveal secret information that “may damage Sweden’s relationship with another state or an international organization.”
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Tag: Nils Melzer
Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are
Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
Current affairs in focus: Russia’s exclusion from the UN Human Rights Council: “Negotiations are an absolute priority”
Renegade: Weaponising Our Rights
Published: 18 March 2022 Guests: Alfred de Zayas
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Weaponising Our Rights
Many Western organisations urgently need reviving, especially in the face of rising global authoritarianism, the weaponisation of human rights, a failing legacy media and the unintended effects of sanctions.
Renegade: Weaponising Our Rights
Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
BY: ALFRED DE ZAYAS
Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is going on. We witness the hijacking of concepts like democracy, freedom, peace, patriotism, human rights — and their instrumentalization for domestic and geopolitical purposes. We observe a process of language destruction not unlike what Orwell foresaw in his sadly visionary book 1984. “Newspeak” is not the future, it is now, hic et nunc. We recognize it in the jargon of political correctness, the language and practice of the “cancel culture”.
COUNTERPUNCH: Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
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