Gulag

Courtesy of an anonymous TPM Reader, I wanted to share a fascinating, if mundane document with you. This is a report from the city of Social Circle, Georgia (a very conservative area) reporting on their discussions with the Department of Homeland Security about the department’s plans to build an ICE…

Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today!  Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women and girls. During an episode of his America First livestream on Rumble, Fuentes declared, “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists —…

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THE OAK AND THE LARCH: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires By Sophie Pinkham Published by Norton 286 pages  $35 Also Read Joshua Hammer In 1978, a team of Russian geologists surveying the Ural Mountains spotted something remarkable: a small, cultivated clearing carved out of a vast wilderness.…

On December 10, 2025, the economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. According to the Anti-graft agency, his arrest was as a result of his inability to meet the bail conditions granted to him. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered…

The Morning Show Season-Finale Recap: Free Bradley Jackson By Maggie Fremont , a freelance writer who covers TV and film Knowing Violation Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars It’s going to take a team effort to thwart Celine’s corporate maneuvering and save Bradley Jackson from an Eastern European…

Politics / August 6, 2025 The Florida migrant gulag is what happens when the depravities of colonialist foreign policy are turned inward. A Florida Highway Patrol officer looks on as protesters gather to demand the closure of the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” at the Dade-Collier Training and…

T he cognitive dissonance begins from above. The stunning aquiline waters and jagged Cuban coastline of Guantánamo Bay come into view, and our plane makes a dramatic arc before landing on the US naval base that Amnesty International dubbed “the gulag of our times.” Of the 123 people on board,…

Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency this time around on the most openly ethno-nationalist platform in memory, one he explicitly promised to implement with undisguised authoritarian measures. After he took office, and the forced disappearances and renditions to foreign gulags got going, there was reason to fear that he’d successfully…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident and author of Gulag Archipelago, would be proud of their beliefs and actions. And he would recognize the kind of state that imprisoned them. There is a lot to rejoice about in President Trump’s first-week blitzkrieg of Washington, DC. But maybe the best in the realm…