There are many athletes who seek better opportunities by representing their “adoptive” countries – and Bahrain is waiting to snap them up.
The FIA has reinstated the Bahrain Grand Prix on the 2011 F1 Grand Prix calendar, despite numerous independent reports of government-sponsored torture and murder of political dissidents in that country, since February 14 of this year. The FIA report, endorsing the re-institution of the event on the F1 calendar, has just been leaked, and has […]
One hears all these news reports about around the world, but there is nothing like visuals to demonstrate what these poor people are going through as we speak. In this video you’ll witness the apparent killing of an unarmed protester at point blank range by military forces loyal to king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
In the age of information, nothing can be kept in the dark anymore. These are the so called controversial Google Earth photos that initially set off Bahraini protests of inequality back in 2006. And when you see them, you’ll know why.
On Monday we ran a story about Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, granting each family in his kingdom 20k in a brilliant attempt at reverse psychology. But apparently the people of Bahrain are bigger Tracy Chapman fans than he thought, as they are now also “talkin’ ’bout a revolution.”
I’m pretty sure Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, isn’t the only politician around the world whose anus must be clenching heavily after the whole Egypt thing. But he is the first one so far who has really gone out of his way to double check that all his peasants are still happily working the fields instead of marching towards his mansion.
The jailed blogger, or “The SilverStreak in his natural habitat” Unless the only entrant in the blog awards is the government. And the government was the judging panel. Even then, they’d probably be a little reticent to set that kind of thing up. Apparently Bahrain isn’t so keen on bloggers, or that “Freedom of Expression” […]