Gulag

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…

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"There are still 1000 people that are sitting in the DC gulags. There are still so many people who need to receive their pardon, and the pardon for them is not good enough either." Monday's episode of Human Events Daily aired live immediately after Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed President-elect Donald…

DAMASCUS, Syria —  Corpse No. 11 was relatively pristine, with few signs of abuse save for a rictus of pained surprise. No. 26 was in worse condition, the decomposition further along but still not enough to obscure the scarlet bruising on the shriveling skin of his forehead. The face of No.…

On April 11, 2022, just weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the writer and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested outside his home in Moscow. He was charged with “spreading deliberately false information,” Kremlin-speak for criticizing the war in Ukraine. A year later, he was sentenced to 25 years in…

When satellites pass over the Korean peninsula at night, South Korea is lit up. Modernity. North Korea is not. It is dark, like the Dark Ages would be seen from space. North Korea is called the Hermit Kingdom because it is an isolationist nation. Its people have little to no…

TALLINN, Estonia -- The whereabouts of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were unknown on Monday as officials at the penal colony where he is serving his sentence told one of his lawyers that he is no longer on the inmate roster, his spokeswoman said. It had been nearly a week…

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