They give a dark account of the machinery of repressive authoritarianism and the operations of capitalist ambition in war and peace, and across continents.
The official guidelines - as issued e.g. by the Governmental body National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women - say that it has no medical function and is a morally unacceptable operation that preserves a repressive patriarchal tradition [ 5, 6].
Critics were quick to note that China Nonferrous operates huge nickel and iron ore mines in Myanmar, widely denounced as one of the world's most repressive nations, and has extensive gold-mining operations in North Korea.
The world should be outraged by the continuing operation of Cuba as a repressive Stalinist police state in violation of fundamental rights recognized in international agreements.
Just after 7pm on June 19th , 2013 in an operation dubbed "Repressive-Search Action 100", 63 police officers, including masked riot police, approached the Roma settlement informally known as Budulovska.
Such observations agitate Gadamer's critics, who see in the unreflective acceptance of the given an irresponsibly conservative privileging of the received, a wilful blindness to possible repressive or exclusionary practices within inherited modes of operation.
And this is to say nothing of the peculiar institution of slavery, our support of the murderously repressive shah of Iran or the C.I.A.'s deadly operations in Latin America, etc., etc., etc.
Indeed its best known tool the anonymising browser Tor was created by a US intelligence agency to help its operations and to assist people living under repressive regimes.
They were thwarted by a £5.3m police operation that was widely criticised for using repressive tactics.
As Marco and his colleagues had done with their previous company, they were saving money by situating the bulk of their operations, or at least most of the white-collar jobs, in the repressive post-Soviet state of Belarus.
