Press TV – September 29, 2018 The United States is creating the basis for the regional conflagration in the Middle East by fortifying its circle around Iran, American writer and academic James Petras says. The US State Department has endorsed the proposed sale of more than 800 tactical missiles to Bahrain amid the Al Khalifah […]
Press TV – July 19, 2018 The UK has almost doubled its arms deals with governments that it has blacklisted as violators of human rights, figures show. The government of British Prime Minister Theresa May approved some £1.5 billion in arms licenses in 2017, up from £820 million it did the year before, the Campaign […]
Press TV – June 17, 2018 Bahraini regime officials have handed down death sentences to three Shia clergymen and condemned eight others to life imprisonment as the ruling Al Khalifah regime continues with its repressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown on members of the religious community. Bahrain’s dissolved main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, […]
It looks like the British Empire is making a comeback.
Almost 47 years after the small island in the Persian Gulf gained independence from Britain, the UK armed forces are returning to Bahrain.
Starting in 2019, at least one of the Royal Navy’s Type-23 frigates will be based out of the new £40 million ($53.5 million) National Support Facility at Mina Salman, establishing what UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson called an “enduring presence.”
Normalizing corruption, outlawing criticism and deterring threats + this day in history w/Hamburger Hill and our song of the day by Mistki on your Morning Monarchy for May 21, 2018.
We’ve been through this before: the trumped-up threat from Iraq based on false evidence in 2003 is the harrowingly similar model to what is emerging for Iran in 2018, argues John Kiriakou. By John Kiriakou I spent nearly 15 years…Read more →
MEMO | May 2, 2018 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has issued a presidential decree permitting the King of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, to own two villas located in the South Sinai province of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt’s state’s official Gazette reported on Monday. In accordance to the Sinai Development Law No.14/2012, any land on the […]
Press TV – May 1, 2018 Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says authorities have made thousands of citizens jobless over the past few years due to their political and religious beliefs as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. The dissolved […]
(MEE) — Leaked emails obtained by the BBC on Monday show that the UAE lobbied the US to sack Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for failing to side with the Emirates in its struggle against Qatar. The sender of the emails, Elliott Broidy, owns a private security company that has contracts with the UAE worth hundreds of […]
