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Zunes’ actions: I’m all for free speech, so long as it doesn’t affect me personally

Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2008

Zunes has also petitioned against Thierry Meyssan and Eva Golinger in defence of the Albert Einstein Institute

Click here for Zunes -Golinger debate on AEI.

By Stephen Gowans

7th September, 2008
What’s Left
Like the autocratic governments he criticizes, Stephen Zunes’ tolerance of free speech stops at criticism of himself. Yesterday, he asked WordPress.Com, which hosts my blog, What’s Left, to shut me down over critical comments I made in my September 4 post, “The War Over South Ossetia.” This is indeed strange behavior for a critic of autocracies who celebrates pro-democracy movements against governments that allegedly limit civil and political liberties, including advocacy rights.
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