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.
In September 2025, Donald Trump designated āantifaā a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the āextreme…
The media spent a lot of time this summer examining whether a certain Maine oysterman and Marine veteran seeking federal employment should…
The experience of the Communist Ansar[1] in Iraq remains one of the finest and most sincere chapters of communist struggle in modern…
I initially wrote this piece in 2024 during the student uprisings that took place around the United States. The content was focused…
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded venue or a vehicle plows into pedestrians in Berlin, New York or London, the…
Since October 7, 2023, critics of Israel in Europe and the United States have faced serious repression. In the United States, college…
On July 23ānow the 54th day of the protestādemonstrations took place not only at the usual afternoon time but also in the…
On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed…
The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history. A mass movement…
Palestinians in the West Bank are at their weakest point in history, and today theyāre staring down Israelās accelerating campaign to ethnically…
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