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13 November 2021

According to the US Navy, joint military exercises between the navies of the US, Bahrain, UAE and Israel kicked off in the Red Sea on 10 November 2021 [1].
These are the first military maneuvers in the history of Arab countries that involve Israel.

Chief of Bahrain Opposition sentenced to life imprisonment

8 November 2018

Sheikh Ali Salman, former President of the Al-Wefaq Party, and two of his collaborators, Hassan Sultan and Ali al-Aswad, have been sentenced to prison for life by the Bahrain court. They have been declared guilty of having had contact with the Qatar Regime with a view to toppling the monarchy. (…)

UK’s Royal Navy now has a permanent base at Bahreïn

7 April 2018

The United Kingdom has just opened a permanent military base for the Royal Navy at Bahrain.
The opening ceremony was co-chaired by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Salman ben Hamad Al Khalifa.
The base will host 300 soldiers.
Up until now, only the military (…)

NATO accepts five new “observer” states

9 May 2016

NATO has accepted that five states be considered «observers» and benefit from an office at the Alliance headquarters.
They are - Bahreïn, Israël, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait.
The Emirates do not seem to have wished for their own office.
The announcement was held up by the Turco-Israëli (…)

Washington lifts its sanctions against Bahreïn

15 July 2015

On the 29th June 2015, the White House lifted the sanctions it had applied against Bahreïn after the repression of demonstrations in 2011.
The spokesman for the Department of State, John Kirby, indicated that, in his opinion, the situation was still not acceptable, but that it had improved - (…)

Pentagon deploys bombers near Iran

12 December 2013

On a fundraising trip to California, president Barack Obama defended his policy on Iran before his pro-Israeli friends.
He thereby declared that the interim agreement signed in Geneva would entail measures aimed at maintaining military pressure on Teheran.
At the same time, while visiting (…)

Bahraini regime uses toxic gasses against civilian opposition

23 August 2012

The Bahraini security forces have started spraying toxic gasses in areas where members of opposition groups reside and in those areas and districts which witness daily popular protests against the Al-Khalifa regime, reports said.
Several Bahraini news websites reported on Thursday that large (…)

THE ART OF WAR

Imperial Democracy

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 29 June 2012

The "Arab" Spring has so far mainly consisted in replacing secular pro-Western regimes with Sunni pro-Western governments, paving the way for a broad regional Sunni-Shiite confrontation. But the high risk of loss of control inherent in such a project not being to everybody’s liking in the West, (…)

Bahrain: the silenced revolt

Havana (Cuba) | 7 April 2012

While the Western media resort to every trick in the book to get people to believe in the narrative that an alleged popular uprising in Syria has been quelled in blood, mum’s the word with regard to the brutal suppression of the democratic movement in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco. In (…)

Statement by King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa at 66th UN General Assembly

by Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

New York (USA) | 22 September 2011

King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of Bahrain addresses the general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly. © UN Photo/Marco Castro
In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General,
It is our pleasure, at this (…)

Anger over German-Saudi tank deal

6 July 2011

Berlin has reportedly given the green light for 200 Leopard 2A7+ battle tanks to be sold to Saudi Arabia. Critics call the planned delivery of the tanks tailored for urban warfare a breach of arms trade guidelines.
The deal, unofficially announced by sources in both Berlin and Riyadh, was (…)

The Middle East counter-revolution

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 May 2011

A Saudi clan, the Sudairi, is spearheading the counter-revolutionary tide unleashed by the United States and Israel in the Middle East. In a vast overview, published in serial form by the leading Russian language daily,
Thierry Meyssan from Damascus paints a general picture of the (…)

Washington censors Libyan and Arab TVs covering violent clampdown in Bahrain

28 April 2011

On 23 April 2011, Libyan state television antennas were hit by NATO airstrikes. Transmissions were cut off for more than 30 minutes before they could resume.
According to NATO’s mouthpiece, the target were not the antennas - since NATO respects and promotes freedom of the press - but the (…)

Counter-revolution: 250 missing in Bahrain

22 April 2011

In a span of one month, King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain unleashed a merciless repression campaign against his subjects.
More than 80 % of the adult population participated in this spring’s peaceful protest movement, demanding the democratization of the monarchy.
• Washington is (…)

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Why the “Obama Doctrine” Won’t Help the Shia Majority in Bahrain

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 16 April 2011

Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at U.S.-Islamic World Forum
Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi passed through Beirut a couple of weeks ago and gave a terrific lecture at the American University of Beirut entitled “Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab (…)

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