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Yes, there really was a health clinic in Michigan that really prescribed a STRICT vegetarian diet, repeated enemas and was dedicated to repressing sexual urges.
Indeed, the military, the bulwark of Mubarak’s regime, is now in charge in Egypt, and has been repressing, jailing, and killing protesters who dare to stand up.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
Repressing political Islam, or attempting to “erase” Islamists militarily with total disregard for national political processes (not to mention human life), is not the answer, because it won’t persuade electorates to turn away from Islamist movements.
Like their Algerian counterparts – who in 1992 approved of the Algerian army’s suppression of an Islamist electoral victory, leading to years of brutal fighting that left perhaps a half-million dead – many Egyptians didn’t mind repressing Islamists.
But such a guarantee is a mirage anyway, whereas respect for basic freedoms and due process when repressing terrorism is a powerful instrument to isolate extremists and diminish their legitimacy in the eyes of those that might identify with their cause.
While his political strategy has entailed tightening the CCP’s control over ideology, cracking down on official corruption, repressing dissent, and championing a more nationalistic foreign policy, he has announced an unusually bold economic-reform blueprint.
To many in the West, it is clear that the Egyptian military has removed a democratically elected government and is now repressing a legitimate political party, killing its supporters and imprisoning its leaders.
But a new issue risks bringing about a similarly problematic outcome: By repeatedly repressing financial-market volatility over the last few years, central-bank policies have inadvertently encouraged excessive risk-taking, which has pushed many financial-asset prices higher than economic fundamentals warrant.
As people at last began to hope for more liberal and decent societies, the US continued to endorse the regimes that were repressing them.
It is the natural, predictable, and (by many) predicted result of the main European countries’ deliberate policy of repressing aggregate demand.
If protecting their government’s religious purity – and their own ill-gotten gains – required brutally repressing their own people and returning Iran to the dark ages, the extremists who would be left in charge would eagerly do it.
In return, the PA has been repressing Hamas in the West Bank.
However, it will make the job of repressing them much harder.
Trade disputes with China and other countries are an opportunity for airing – rather than repressing – these issues, and thus taking an important step toward democratizing the world’s trade regime.
Iran’s Mullah-led government is also repressing dervishes.
And he has been openly critical of the Kingdom’s treatment of women, arguing that “a country cannot function in the modern world when it is repressing half of its population.”
By contrast, backward Asian economies -- Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, and, above all, China -- are confident that they can advance economically by repressing democracy and stressing Asian authoritarianism.
For three decades, Mubarak’s borrowing only enriched him and his ruling clique while impoverishing and repressing the rest of Egypt.
Had they been swifter and more effective in repressing the mass protests, they might still be in power today – with America’s blessing.
The ESSIN would accentuate the advantages of EU membership, while repressing the illegal flows of workers that perpetuate suspicion toward free mobility.
The trouble is that Vladimir Putin, although a graduate of Saint Petersburg University Law School, served many years in the KGB and surrounds himself with veterans of the KGB, an institution whose main domestic function was repressing dissent.
This could include not only governing by decree and purging state institutions, but also silencing the media and repressing civil society.
Concerning the process of de Oliveira “ financiarisation ” of politics, there is an interesting fact to take into account: country risk reached its lowest level, since the creation of the index in 1994, on Wednesday August 9th, precisely in the sequence of what Brazilian media called “the third wave of attacks” by a criminal group, the PCC (First Command of the Capital), which burned buses, destroyed banking agencies, placed bombs in public buildings (even the headquarters of the Sao Paulo’s Public Ministry of State and the police agency in charge of repressing organized crime).
In the face of crisis, China’s leaders often overreact by repressing dissent.
First, central banks will remain on the path toward monetary-policy normalization – albeit at different speeds – after many years of ultra-loose measures focused on repressing financial volatility.
All over the world, the pushback against protest looks similar, suggesting that state and corporate actors are learning “best practices” for repressing dissent while maintaining democratic facades.
But, because these policies entail moving an enormous volume of financial assets to central banks’ balance sheets, they have also generated significant distortions in financial markets by repressing risk premia for certain asset classes.
It is a persistent contradiction that the Chinese state claims the mantle of May 4 while repressing the memory of June 4.
The irony is that China is repressing leftist students whose words and deeds embody the CPC’s original ideals.