An attack on Saddam Hussein will show the Arab world that we will no longer tolerate the Middle Eastern cocktail of absolute rule, murder, repression of human rights and cynical twisting of Islam into a religion of hate.
Without a major change in the direction by General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi and his civilian front men, Egypt will soon revert to military rule and a campaign of repression, if not annihilation, of the Muslim Brotherhood and suppression of democratic voices under one party rule.
Similarly, it wasn't McCarthyism to call somebody a "Communist sympathizer" if that somebody sympathized with the salient features of Communism, such as one-party rule, totalitarian repression of alternative opinions, the abolition of civil liberties, and murderous gulags.
This episode reveals not only the essence of a system where the individual has no rights, but also the evolution of a new brand of repression: the perverted "rule by law" instead of the "rule of law".
The years under Soviet rule were marked by another kind of repression.
Can these "Sunday strolls" have any effect on China's seemingly indomitable apparatus of repression and authoritarian rule?
The group was outlawed during Mr. Mubarak's 30-year rule, and it was that kind of repression that bred hostility against him, which eventually boiled over.
In eight weeks, riding a wave of war hysteria, this K.G.B. apparatchik is likely to be elected president -- to take his patient, Russia, to the cooler of repression and autocratic rule.
This was one-party rule with a vengeance: the triumph of repression, the squashing of dissenting voices and the shutting down of independent media.Yet many in the West had high hopes for the clever and resourceful Mr Zenawi, who came to power nearly 20 years ago.
In Tibet, people have long claimed of repression under Chinese rule.
