In the 53 images in "War in Iraq: Coordinates of Conflict," we encounter more directly the war, deprivation, violence, dictatorial regimes and fanatical faith that raged around Klutsis's work but rarely registered within it.
The former presented a Britain suddenly reduced to barbarism as a result of a plague and a dangerous, denuded, rubbish-strewn London; the latter gave us a future Britain in which a dictatorial government ruled through violence and a masked avenger incited the public to fight back.
Stories about gangsters share much with stories about diplomats, especially in dictatorial times: crime, power, women, money, fashion, violence, deception.
Slumped in a post-dictatorial recession and the seemingly uncontrollable terrorist violence of the armed group ETA, most Spaniards reacted with indifference to the coup.
In effect, the clock has been turned back to Aug. 15, before the promulgation of Khanah's dictatorial constitution started all the trouble Unless future violence is dealt with firmly, and unless the interim govt. responds to demands of students, religious & political groups for more civilian control & safe guarding of individual liberties, there is scant hope for the future.
Mr Obasanjo, a former military ruler turned democrat, has also proved an important interlocutor between the Commonwealth and the increasingly dictatorial Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe.The immediate cause of the violence in Lagos was the alleged desecration of a mosque by a man said to have defecated outside it.
"Scaf have repeatedly attacked the Egyptian people, but the [9 October] Maspero massacre displayed violence and viciousness of a different magnitude, and repression on a dictatorial level," Omar Robert Hamilton, an film-maker with the Mosireen collective, which made the new video, and is also Abd El Fattah's cousin, told the Guardian.
At the same time, far too often our nation has failed to extend this generosity to other similarly situated groups, such as Haitians fleeing corrupt and dictatorial regimes and natural disasters, or Central Americans leaving countries wrecked by civil war, political persecution, and extreme violence.
Partly by fomenting political violence, Hitler ended up becoming the chancellor of a coalition cabinet on Jan . 30 , 1933and was subsequently voted dictatorial powers by Germany's Reichstag.
The violence and terror of the past few months came as no surprise to those who understand that peace with dictatorial regimes must be based on strength and deterrence.
