Month: May 2014
US Protesters could learn much about their government's injustice by noticing Bahrain
They Can’t Outlaw the Revolution by Chris Hedges – commondreams.org – 19 May, 2014 Cecily McMillan. (Photo by Lucy Parks CC-BY)RIKERS ISLAND, N.Y.—Cecily McMillan, the Occupy activist who on Monday morning will appear before a criminal court in New York City to be sentenced to up to seven years on a charge of assaulting a more »
Democracy Shamed – The Charade of Western Imperialism and Neo-fascist delusions of Righteousness
Robert D. Kaplan’s Geopolitical Bunkum: Inside the Fanciful World of Stratfor 16 May 2014 – By Steve Breyman – Truthout Readers of Time were recently treated to an absurd take on Ukraine, Putin, “the West” and a bunch of other stuff by journalist Robert D. Kaplan, “chief geopolitical analyst” of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., popularly known more »
Saving lsa Alaali – U.K. needs to grant him Asylum
lsa Alaali was released on bail on the 16th of May 2013; the amount being 200 Bahraini dinars. His case was to be taken up by the high court. Following his release, lssa AI-Aali was offered a financial incentive in exchange for his cooperation in acting as an informant; upon his refusal, lssa ai-Aali was more »
AlMahfoodh suffers repeat attacks, torture while serving unjust sentence in Jau prison – Free AlMahfoodh
…on the occasion of Sheikh AlMahfoodh’s Arrest in 2011; “They broke into my home four times and told me it’s either your husband or your daddy”. On April 2nd police arrested her husband in what she says was a ‘hostage situation’ to secure the arrest of Sheikh Mohammed Ali. …more