In The European Conservative, Gaetano Masciullo unmasks the oxymoronically named European Media Freedom Act, whose implementation this month is turning out to include comprehensive surveillance powers over journalists while they work and the by-now-familiar Orwellian Newspeak that rationalizes censorship targeting conservatives as being all about combating “misinformation”, “xenophobia” and, of course, “racism”. Masciullo poses the question first asked by the Roman Juvenal: “But who watches the watchmen?”
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
