Gulag

Key Point: The defense that he had only followed orders failed to absolve Wirz of guilt in the mind of the court and established a precedent for the trials, 80 years later, of Nazi war criminals who made the same claim at Nuremberg following World War II. Sim…

In 1922, Vladimir Lenin wrote that “Stalin concentrated in his hands enormous power, which he won’t be able to use responsibly,” owing to his rudeness, intolerance, and capriciousness – qualities that Donald Trump has in spades. His acquittal by the Senate was a dark day for American democracy, but his…

Special for LewRockwell.com Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, we remain fixated on some of its worst crimes.  But only some.  The incessant use of Holocaust remembrance has been cynically used by some on the hard right to justify Israel’s repression of the Palestinian people and the…

A man holds the East Turkestan flag during a rally in Hong Kong on Dec. 22, 2019, to show support for the Uighur minority NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) To those who follow international affairs, it is clear that China has become increasingly repressive under …

When the liberation movement known as the Prague Spring ended in August 1968, suppressed by Soviet tanks, and Czechoslovakia was once again under the aegis of the Soviet Union, Soviet authorities began to persecute my father, an eminent linguist, for having p…

Senator and presidential candidate  Elizabeth Warren, having gone mad, asked during the Q&A portion of the Senate impeachment trial whether the Chief Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court have been sullied by Republicans. This over seeming to be ready to move to a verdict without calling additional witnesses. After reading her question,…

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Uh-Oh: Sanders Campaign Texting 'Gulag For You' To People Who Aren't Voting For Bernie This could be worrying: the Bernie Sanders campaign has enlisted thousands of volunteers to text people and ask if they're voting for Bernie. This is a common tactic among campaigns with strong grassroots support. But the…

There should be a word for when you’re doing something you know you shouldn’t be doing but you keep going anyways. How about we call that feeling “contemperroneous?” I was all up in the contemperroneous when, back in 2015, I put up a horizontal fence of the sort that’s popular…

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