The Unz Review • An Alternative Media Selection
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
User Settings:
Version?
Social Media?
 Show Word Counts
 No Video Autoplay
 No Infinite Scrolling

SaveCancel
RSS
Show by ⇅ 
Email This Page to Someone

 Remember My Information



=>
 
BlogviewPhilip Giraldi Archive
/
Freedom of Speech
 BlogviewPhilip Giraldi Archive
/
Freedom of Speech

◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲ ▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library • BShow CommentNext New CommentNext New ReplyRead More
ReplyAgree/Disagree/Etc. More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All Comments
AgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTroll
These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.
Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter
Thought Control American Style: the Social Justice Warriors Will Destroy Our Basic Freedoms
• October 8, 2020
• 1,100 Words • 156 Comments • Reply
Once upon a time it was possible to rely on much of the mainstream media to report on developments more or less objectively, relegating opinion pieces to the editorial page. But that was a long time ago. I remember moving to Washington back in 1976 after many years of New York Times and International Herald... Read More
giraldi-1-930x520
Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing
• October 31, 2019
• 1,200 Words • 203 Comments • Reply
The hideous treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues and many observers are citing his case as being symptomatic of developing “police state” tendencies in both the United States and in Europe, where rule of law is being subordinated to political expediency. Julian Assange was the founder and editor-in-chief of the controversial news and information... Read More
The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
• July 11, 2019
• 1,200 Words • 47 Comments • Reply
It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St. Louis county home. The armed... Read More
"Freedom of Speech" Items Across Entire Archive
Philip Giraldi
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.


Personal Classics
America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars
Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?
• 1,324 Comments • Reply
Americans Should be Ashamed
A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington
• 106 Comments • Reply
How the Israel Lobby Works
Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated
• 48 Comments • Reply
Israel Is No Ally
But is it even a friend?
• 97 Comments • Reply
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.
• 1 Comment • Reply
Counter Intelligence
Today’s CIA serves contractors and bureaucrats—not the nation.
• 1 Comment • Reply