Pure capitalism and globalization evoke horrific images. Swarms of capitalist locusts threaten to descend on defenseless, hardworking people, to quote the unfortunate metaphor used in a recent speech by Franz Müntefering, the chairman of the governing Social Democrats.

The sum of the above is 928, September 28, the day when the police deployed tear gas to peaceful protestors who resisted with their umbrellas.

The lack of due process, particularly in political trials, and the abuse of the justice system to silence peaceful political dissent are of serious concern to the Special Rapporteur.

Security forces attacked peaceful protesters, jailed opposition leaders, sent thousands of their supporters to gruesome detention camps, and accused independent journalists of treason a crime punishable by death.

A more ideological and antagonistic approach in the form of increased political and social repression could stir Iran's discontented masses, reviving the non violent but radicalized reformists.

That is why, instead of talking about rapists, he targeted peaceful homosexual men and women who wish to show their commitment to their lovers by marrying them.

babalu reports on another wave of repression against the island's peaceful human rights activists here and here.

China s decision to block the UN Security Council from condemning the Burmese regime s assault on the Buddhist monks and other peaceful protestors underscores its long standing political support for the junta.

A more ideological and antagonistic approach in the form of increased political and social repression could stir Iran's discontented masses, reviving the non violent but radicalized reformists. Some of these now call for passive resistance and civil disobedience.

On one hand, some international media painted a black and white (and not always entirely objective) portrait of the March violence as a brutal Chinese crackdown on peaceful Tibetan monks.

The date of 26 February 2005 will mark the thirteenth anniversary of the Khojaly genocide a bloody crime against humanity committed by Armenian nationalists, the monstrous slaughter of the peaceful inhabitants of the town of Khojaly.

In many ways, it has eroded or even eliminated the kind of arbitrary constraints that turned peaceable boys into aggressive men and stuck ambitious girls in low paying jobs.

The 1962 Printers and Publishers Registration Act, the Unlawful Associations Act, the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act and the 1975 State Protection Law have been invoked to imprison many peaceful political activists and have seriously restricted the exercise of rights and freedoms.

Resorting to thugs to carry out widespread intimidation, and blaming violence on the largely peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians, as their government has done, is not a good omen.

If what has been cut is not restored, Cameron and his ideological heirs will create a nation of quiescent citizens who, like their US counterparts, are better suited to a society whose official policies are more directly aligned to the will of corporate interests.