Neoliberal Profiteering more important than Human Rights and Democracy in Bahrain

Business Interests Are More Valuable to Bahrain’s Western Allies Than Democracy and Human Rights 17 August, 2014 – Business Insider I was sentenced to two years in prison for holding what authorities in Bahrain described as “illegal demonstrations” in 2012. In actual fact I was doing my legitimate and peaceful human rights work. I have more »

Bahrain's belligerence includes British bruises with long arm of injustice and abuse

Bahrain: Harassment of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab at Heathrow Airport 31 Jul, 2014 – BCHR The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) express their concern over the harassment and ill-treatment of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and his family at the hands of the authorities more »

Bahrain Children in Chains – Hostages in a Tyrant King's, Politics of Repression

Children of Bahrain: Those who oppose the regime are in prisons 01 August, 2014 – Shafaqna SHAFAQNA – Why are more than 190 Bahraini children spending Eid inside the prison cells of the “Prison Island” as, the US Assistant Secretary of State, Tom Malinowski described it? The very first Eid to occur during the period more »

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 »