Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on repression and includes content relating to human rights violations, restriction of citizen and civil freedoms and rights of political activists, dissidents and the general population, surveillance, police brutality, imprisonment, acts of violence terror such as summary executions and torture.
A photograph of President Rodrigo Paz shaking hands with the executive secretary of the countryās principal trade union federation, the Bolivian Workersā…
When word came down that USAID was being dismantled in Nicaragua, I was sorting through old documents amid the chaos of the…
A new State Department report on Cubaās ācampaign of subversion against the United Statesā is a virtual government blacklist against left-wing Americans…
The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and…
A Note From the Author What follows is a summary of how license plate surveillance cameras were installed across the country without…
When is it possible to declare that a society has moved from liberal democracy, however imperfectly realised, to authoritarian rule? Is there…
The British government has announced it is going to ban Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an idea which on the face of it sounds…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. āGet out of there,ā she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village…
As he pushed for Congress to approve $350 billion in new spending requested by the Pentagon, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Tuesday…
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