North Carolina is set to introduce what experts say is the most "repressive" attack on the rights of African American voters in decades, barely a month after the US supreme court struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act.
If only someone had mounted a repressive cyber-attack over an unflattering portrayal of North Korean politics in something that's actually funny, like 2004's Team America World Police.
While in Switzerland he also published Die Ursache (1915; The Cause of the Crime), an attack on repressive educational systems, and Der Mensch ist gut (1917; "Man Is Good"), a revolutionary denunciation of war.
While bloggers are seriously under attack in repressive regimes for expressing their views and have become an indispensable source of information and forum for dissent, journalism remains a distinct activity.
All would be fine with Beane's intentions were he more brutal in his attack on repressive behavior in the past -- and by implication in many quarters today -- but though he shows and tells spectators a good deal about Miles, he hasn't completely figured who Miles really is.
O'Brien's novels express her despair over the condition of women in contemporary society and, in particular, attack women's repressive upbringing.
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is gunned down by her own bodyguards in a revenge attack for her repressive policies in Punjab.
He also advanced this cause by sustaining an unending attack upon the repressive and, to his mind, anti-human demands of traditional Christian asceticism, especially priestly celibacy, and the moral codes of sexual restraint and bodily self-abnegation that were still central to the traditional moral teachings of the day.
During a lecture delivered one year later the productive aspects of his account of the prison are given far greater prominence (Foucault, 2009b[1976c]), and by the time of his first book on sexuality in 1976 the repressive hypothesis was under sustained attack (Foucault, 1998[1976a]).
That's why parties are targeted by repressive forces look no further than the attacks on clubs in Orlando and Istanbul, and the politicized crackdowns on queer events in New York and beyond.
