The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) is a nation that has largely become recognized as the most dramatic example of centralized State-oppression known in the world today. The DPRK is consistently represented as something akin to being the world’s largest prison, a completely militarized society wherein all individualism is consumed by the collective […]
On April 27th, 2017, Al-Masdar News made an announcement through their Twitter account that they had become aware that one of their contributing writers “may have engaged in abusive behavior on a public forum prior to joining AMN”, and that the unnamed journalist in question was as of that date “suspended with pay”. The individual […]
Author’s Note: The Fulda Gap was granted the privilege to interview a Serbian participant in the events described below. Some of what is described below is informed by the testimony of our source, whose identity we have kept confidential for their safety. On April 3rd, 2017, thousands of people amassed in the streets of the […]
Sometime in January of 2017, during a relative lull in the ongoing struggle between the police forces allied to the Energy Transfer Partners company and the multitude of protesters resisting in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the passage of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) across the Missouri River, some new additions to […]
On January 29th, 2017, US President Donald Trump spoke for the first time as Commander-in-Chief to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the presently-ruling monarch of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. According to the statement released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary on that same day, King Salman and President Trump affirmed […]
This is the second of a two-part article highlighting the influence of Syria’s wealthiest businessman on the power structure of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as some of his contributions to the Syrian Conflict. Part One may be read here. Rami Makhlouf has been connected to several private militias who operate outside of the […]
This is the first of a two-part article highlighting the influence of Syria’s wealthiest businessman on the power structure of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as some of his contributions to the Syrian Conflict. Global media coverage of the Syrian conflict has a characteristic tendency to represent or depict the policies of the […]
