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Abby Martin Beats the Israel Lobby

Attack on Free Speech and Association Fails Court Test

Philip Giraldi • June 3, 2021

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Abby Martin’s efforts must be applauded for she has won a major victory in the struggle to maintain freedom of speech in the United States. Many Americans who follow developments overseas would concede that Israel and its supporters in the United States exercise a fairly high level of control over U.S. foreign policy in the... Read More

More on the Anti-Semitism Scam: Jewish Students Get Protected Status

Philip Giraldi • October 10, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 48 Comments • Reply

In both the United States and Europe there has been an increase in the passage of laws that are intended to protect Jews. Indeed, one might say that one of the few growth industries in Donald Trump’s United States has been the protection of Jewish citizens and their property from a largely contrived wave of... Read More

Killing Free Speech in America

Friends of Israel find that it cuts two ways

Philip Giraldi • January 28, 2020

• 1,400 Words • 172 Comments • Reply

No group in the United States has labored so hard as the friends of Israel to destroy the First Amendment to the Constitution, which commits the government to prohibit any “abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” Ironically, of course, Congressmen and government officials who have taken an oath... Read More

Where Free Speech Dies

Philip Giraldi • June 21, 2016

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the right of free speech. Though there may be instances when speech cannot be truly uninhibited because of possible consequences, e.g. yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, the right to speak freely has been enshrined in American law and custom. Lately, however, free speech has come... Read More

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About Philip Giraldi

Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren.

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?

Philip Giraldi

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Americans Should be Ashamed

A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington

Philip Giraldi

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How the Israel Lobby Works

Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated

Philip Giraldi