February 2005Revolutions are so exciting“As the president noted in Bratislava just last week, there was a rose revolution in Georgia, an orange revolution in Ukraine, and most recently, a purple revolution in Iraq. In Lebanon, we see growing momentum for a ‘cedar revolution’ that is unifying the citizens of that nation to the cause of true democracy and freedom from foreign influence.” – Paula Dobriansky, US Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. On people-power revolutions (that are aided by US funding and invasion). February 2005.
How authoritarians like free speech“[The case of Ward Churchill] raises troubling questions about the way ‘free speech’ is trotted out as an excuse for political irresponsibility at colleges and universities today… [T]he truth is that freedom of speech, like all human freedoms, thrives only when it is limited… [A]cademic freedom is ‘the freedom to seek and transmit the truth’. It does not…extend to the conduct of political propaganda in teaching.” – Roger Kimball, journalist at ‘New Criterion’. On University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill's comment that an attack on the WTC was inevitable and justified because of the death and destruction the US was bringing to different parts of the world. 7 February 2005.
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