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Bahrain used to model itself as a relatively benign island in a sea of despotism. Situated between two horrifically oppressive regime - Saudi Arabia and Iran - the Bahraini monarchy has allowed for an increasing space for critical debate and commentary...
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The Double Standard is real and needs to be belabored. Western intervention in Libya, it should be noted, has likely saved the Libyan revolution and certainly prevented...
made popular Mar 25 2011
I feel that there most be an insightful quote from history to sum up all the awesome events that have rocked the Middle East since December 17th, 2010. It is humbling...
made popular Mar 18 2011
The problem with an active foreign policy is that you cannot always set the parameters or dictate how foreigners will view your conduct or judge the sincerity of your...
made popular Mar 18 2011
At the behest of the corrupt authoritarian ruling regime in Bahrain, Saudi Arabian forces have moved into occupy the nation and aid in the suppression of a peaceful...
made popular Mar 15 2011
The Qatari regime, and its voice heard through al Jazeera (owned by the royal family), has supported the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt but has stayed silent if not...
made popular Mar 4 2011
“After the first successful thrust every revolution differentiates into political and class currents. This is the moment of greatest danger. The moment when the...
made popular Feb 22 2011
When the U.S Congress travels to Israel, which is the primary destination for Congressional trips, they often are riveted to hear about Israel’s “tough...
made popular Jan 3 2011
A former coach of Togo’s national football team has been suspended for three years after hosting a fake match in Bahrain earlier this month.
Togo’s...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Bahrain stripped a powerful Shiite cleric with close ties to Iraq of his citizenship as authorities Monday widened a crackdown against alleged dissidents ahead of next...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Bahraini officials announced on Saturday that they were charging 23 people, most of them activists from the Shiite majority, with coordinating a violent campaign to...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has to be one of the most barbaric, horrific things one can do to a female. And don’t even dare compare it to male circumcision,...
made popular May 12 2010
A U.S. Navy aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Wednesday and one of the four crew members was missing, the military said.
Search and rescue efforts were...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Saudis are banned from watching movies, and have been for about 30 years or so. I suppose viewing them is un-Islamic, because movies existed back during...
made popular Mar 25 2010
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab regimes, but high amongst the list is Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid al-Khalifa. Bahrain is another American client in the...
made popular Mar 3 2010
I had previously written about the Moronic (it deserves to be capitalized) twist of the puppet Bahraini foreign minister Khalid
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab...
made popular Feb 10 2010
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab regimes, but high amongst the list is Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid al-Khalifa. Bahrain is another American client in...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Call it the Bush-Now Obama-Thus Bushama Doctrine: U.S. patronage of its clients makes them more authoritarian. Freedom House, a Washington group, has a neo-conservative...
made popular Jan 14 2010
Forbes magazine has compiled another one of their rankings. This time “most friendliest nations” for expatriates - the best place to work if you’re...
made popular Dec 28 2009
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The Arab puppet is lead by his U.S. masters; Ereli at left.
The Bush administration withdrew the U.S. ambassador to the Syria back in 2005 as a measure of condemnation...
made popular Dec 26 2009
As long as they are fit to be mothers, children belong with their mums, not with some relative who doesn’t have the child’s interests at heart. Obviously...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Anyone even remotely familiar with Saudi Arabia knows the country to be a staunchly and awfully conservative Kingdom where a clerical elite negates every aspect of...
made popular Jul 23 2009
I remember when Michael Jackson came to Tunisia to perform two shows. A aunt of mine attended the show and then wrote us a letter describing it as an unforgettable...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Recently, officials in the tiny Persian Gulf, Arab monarchy of Bahrain stated that they intended to clamp down on the “excesses” of foreign tourists....
made popular Jun 20 2009
A while back I reported on riots in the Bahrain capital of Manama by the islands Shias against the Sunni ruling elite. The island is two-thirds Shias, but the Sunnis...
made popular Feb 27 2009
Riots have been on - going for days in the tiny Middle Eastern island nation of Bahrain. Police have been spread thorough the capital Manama to confront some violent...
made popular Feb 4 2009
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Manama, Bahrain-Another year gone by without any concrete step taken to protect domestic worker in the Kingdom who continue to be exploited by...
made popular Feb 3 2009
We don’t often hear about events in the this tiny island monarchy, but the people of Bahrain have recently made their presence known by marching in solidarity...
made popular Dec 22 2008
Bahrain has launched a new women empowerment project designed to raise the status of women in that Gulf nation.
made popular Aug 28 2008
In what is believed to be the second case of its kind in Bahrain, a woman gave birth to sextuplets at a hospital in Manama. The Bahraini woman gave birth to three boys...
made popular Jul 1 2008
Felipe Massa led from the first corner to rekindle his world title hopes with victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, heading off team-mate Kimi Raikkonen as...
made popular Apr 7 2008
Poland’s Robert Kubica produced a stunning performance to claim pole position for Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix in his BMW Sauber.
made popular Apr 6 2008
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An unidentified U.S. Navy sailor seen between flags of the United States and Turkey during a ceremony, Sunday May 3, 2009, at the U.S. Navy base in Manama, Bahrain, putting Turkey in command of an international naval task force fighting piracy.
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