Exclusive: Even as Hillary Clinton pushes a new scheme for defeating ISIS, the reality is that contradictory U.S. policies in the Mideast that she helped formulate are fueling the growth of jihadi extremism, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Hillary…Read more →
By Steven MacMillan | New Eastern Outlook | 27.09.2016 Contrary to the incessant grandstanding by US and British politicians that they are committed to promoting freedom, democracy and peace around the world, the evidence proves that the Anglo-American establishment is in the business of war, destabilization and conflict creation. On top of the numerous imperial […]
Press TV – September 24, 2016 A Canadian company has sold Bahrain technology used to block opposition websites and human rights content on the Internet, Canadian activists say. Specialists from internet watchdog Citizen Lab said in a report that Canadian Netsweeper website-blocking applications had been identified on nine internet service providers (ISPs) in Bahrain. The […]
Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?
— Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” from his 1963 recording “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”
Editor’s Note: Award-winning journalist Peter Oborne and Middle East Eye’s Nawal Al-Maghafi are among the few correspondents to have ventured into war-torn Yemen during the past month. In the first of a series of exclusive reports, they survey the devastation and reveal the culpability of the West for the carnage that is unfolding on a daily basis. Much of their reporting is […]
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Press TV – August 14, 2016 A British parliamentary committee has criticized UK police for training Bahraini forces who are accused of ruthlessly suppressing public protests and dissent. Under a confidential agreement in 2015 obtained by the Observer, the UK’s College of Policing agreed to train forces of Bahrain’s Interior Ministry. The deal, however, does […]
The Persian Gulf is a turbulent region where something happens on a daily basis that can have a negative impact on world politics. This time, it was the small Emirate of Bahrain in the thick of things: in the midst of the “revolutionary” events that had whipped up. It all started with the authorities having declared the Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim a “foreign agent” and decided to revoke his citizenship and deport him. He was accused of “using religion for political ends to further foreign interests”.
By Ming Chun Tang | CEPR Americas Blog | June 26, 2016 As was reported following the assassination of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition of her memoirs, “Hard Choices.” Her three-page account of […]
Sputnik — 20.06.2016 Sunni-ruled Bahrain has deprived leading Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim of his citizenship, media reported Monday. According to the BBC, Bahrain stripped Qassim, who is the spiritual leader of Al-Wefaq, Bahrain’s biggest opposition group, and holds the senior religious title of Ayatollah, of his citizenship. On June 14, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation […]
(MEE) Human rights campaigners could block the Tour de France if a Bahraini-bankrolled cycling team is allowed to compete in the world’s most famous bike race.
The warning from campaigners comes after a Bahraini prince accused of involvement in the torture of prisoners during the country’s 2011 uprising announced plans to create a professional cycling team.
