NEW YORK (AP) _ Two state lawmakers on Sunday announced details of proposed legislation aimed at protecting authors and journalists whose First Amendment freedoms to write about terrorism issues could be imperiled by libel lawsuits in foreign … [Read more...] about New York State Lawmakers Offer Legislation To Protect Authors
Council Bill Could Protect Authors
A bill introduced this week in Albany would give new protection to New York authors and journalists against libel judgments from foreign courts and would make it easier for writers to use New York courts to challenge foreign judgments against them. … [Read more...] about Council Bill Could Protect Authors
Russia’s New ‘State Oligarchy’
Left: Vladimir Putin with Oligarch Oleg Deripaska - The landslide victory of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party in December’s parliamentary election and Putin's nomination of Dmitry Medvedev to succeed him cements Putin's position as … [Read more...] about Russia’s New ‘State Oligarchy’
Against The Threat Of Libel Tourism
Please read the article in Dutch. … [Read more...] about Against The Threat Of Libel Tourism
Last Stop On The Libel Tour
Several weeks ago the New York State Court of Appeals began hearing arguments in a case with monumental and far-reaching implications for the protection of United States citizens abroad and the rights afforded by the First Amendment. The stakes are … [Read more...] about Last Stop On The Libel Tour
Financial Jihad
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the American Center for Democracy. She has a 25-year track-record of following terrorist financing, especially Islamic radical groups and states. In the late 1980’ she identified … [Read more...] about Financial Jihad
Libel Terrorism
Supporters of Islamic totalitarianism are using courts to silence their critics and advance their agendas as the American mainstream media barely take notice. Take the case of Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz [1], the billionaire alleged funder of … [Read more...] about Libel Terrorism
Where’s The Outrage Over Saudi Abuses?
Last year, this space related the story of a gang rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married. At the time, this writer was stunned, but not surprised, … [Read more...] about Where’s The Outrage Over Saudi Abuses?
The Liberal Tourist: Silencing Free Speech
Litigious Saudi Arabians -- making use of plaintiff-friendly British libel laws -- have imposed major restrictions on free speech in Britain. British law is just the opposite of American law. In America, someone suing for libel has to show that the … [Read more...] about The Liberal Tourist: Silencing Free Speech
The Lights Go Out In Britain
The sinister police response to Islamist incitement (see post below) in which they tried to suppress the evidence of it in the interests of ‘community cohesion’ is unfortunately part of a far larger picture of terminal British cultural cringe and … [Read more...] about The Lights Go Out In Britain