May 11, 2011
\nTHE ROVING EYE
\nBahrain topples its own people
\nBy Pepe Escobar<\/p>\n
[excerpt] [is a must read<\/a> – Pepe nails it like it is] Break their skulls, no one is watching <\/strong> “National safety” in this case includes the state razing to the ground – with full Saudi input – over 20 Shi’ite mosques; the demolition of houses; the demolition of the Pearl roundabout – the symbol of the mass protests; and beating and jailing hundreds of protesters. The House of Saud’s Nayef best pal in Manama has got to be Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa ibn Salman al-Khalifa, 75, who has held the cozy job for no less than 40 years – a world record.<\/p>\n In practice, what’s going on in Bahrain is a monarchy trying to get rid of its people. The tactics are straight out of the collective punishment playbook – as applied by the Americans in Fallujah in 2004 and the Israelis in Gaza for the past decades. The opposition to the al-Khalifas happens to be the absolute majority of Bahrain’s population, and is not exclusively Shi’ite, as the government insists on spinning. …more<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nMeanwhile, in Bahrain, state news agency BNA has announced, “The state of national safety is lifted across the kingdom of Bahrain from June 1, 2011.” That’s a decree by King Hamad al-Khalifa, who proves to be, in spite of himself, an admirer of English author George Orwell, as he characterizes a state of emergency as “a state of national safety”.<\/p>\n