It was also clearly a propaganda event at a time of heightened tensions between the United and China over a raft of issues, including differences over how to handle Syria's violent crackdown of protests and suspicion in Beijing over the reassertion of American power in Asia.
"Is it any surprise that these latest victims of the crackdown on protest are those who peacefully oppose his election to a fourth five-year term?" A stroke in April 2013 left Bouteflika's legs paralyzed, raising questions about his health and ability to run for yet another term.
It also contains real footage of police attacking African Americans, the military crackdown of the protest in the Tiananmen Square, the Ku Klux Klan, war crimes, genocide, execution, martial law, and other human rights abuses.
The bands of regimist thugs, known as the Shabiha, after Alawite bandit smuggling gangs that operated in the seventies, have been drawn mostly from the Alawite population and are at the forefront of the crackdown on protests and opposition neighborhoods.
Dynamic Internet Technology, a small company in Asheville, N.C., provides technical services to efforts by the Voice of America to get e-mail newsletters into China, using spammers' techniques like altering subject lines or inserting odd characters in key terms (like "June 3/5tilde 4/54," the date of the crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989).
Since Morsi's ousting, the military-installed government has pressed an extensive crackdown on protests, mainly those of his Islamist supporters, frequently setting off violent street clashes.
Both had been arrested and put in Kaliti prison by the Ethiopian authorities for critical reporting of a violent crackdown on protests following disputed parliamentary elections, in which, according to some reports, security forces killed nearly two hundred people.
But a real-life drama has suddenly intruded: both founders of the troupe are now in hiding, and another member is in jail, as the result of a government crackdown on protests against a presidential election that human rights groups have described as rigged.
In Tehran, thick crowds marched down a central avenue in midmorning, defying official warnings of a harsh crackdown on protests as they chanted "death to Khamenei," referring to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has expressed growing intolerance for political dissent in the country.
"It's not surprising that faced with the crackdown of OWS protests, Wolf would immediately turn to a theory of national, centralized repression.
