Matt Kennard

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to campus in September, we were greeted with weeks of protest and discussion. Yet two weeks ago, we welcomed a speaker who is much worse than a Holocaust denier—a man who has been partly responsible for more than one holocaust. That man is Henry Kissinger.

It’s not often that a dictator loses a referendum, but this is the paradox thatthe American populace has been grappling with this week as the lies fed to them by corporate news networks about Hugo Chavez hit reality in an unseemly head-on collision.

This week the Pakistani dictator, Pervez Musharraf, declared emergency rule in his troubled country. Emergency rule is one of the more heinous euphemisms that proliferate in political discourse.

David Horowitz—the Marxist turned neoconservative—will be speaking on campus next week as part of the inaugural Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. The festivities are scheduled to take place on campuses from University of California, Los Angeles to Brown University to DePaul University, showcasing the brightest stars in the global fight against fascism, running the not-so-lengthy ideological gamut from Ann “Convert Them to Christianity” Coulter to Robert “Why Christianity Is a Religion of Peace and Islam Isn’t” Spencer.