{"id":1935,"date":"2011-06-18T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2011-06-18T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:34:03","slug":"rhetoric-versus-reality-us-involvement-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric Versus Reality: US Involvement in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVrxHZG0E4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rhetoric Versus Reality: US Involvement in Bahrain<br \/>\nby grtv<\/p>\n<p>While NATO continues bombarding Libya, they have quite a different approach with other countries&#8211;take for instance Bahrain. The country&#8217;s crown prince was in Washington DC last week and made a statement at a briefing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. &#8220;We are committed to changes and to find out ways to closer work with the US. We are a very important ally to the US,&#8221; said the prince.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton expressed support for Bahrain, stressing it was a very important for the US. While they were talking about reforms, however, dialogue out of Bahrain shows that that is very far from the case overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Chossudovsky, the director of the Center for Research on Globalization, joins RT to talk about the matter.   <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/06\/2011618155021377609.html\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1935&amp;text=Rhetoric+Versus+Reality%3A+US+Involvement+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetoric Versus Reality: US Involvement in Bahrain by grtv While NATO continues bombarding Libya, they have quite a different approach with other countries&#8211;take for instance Bahrain. The country&#8217;s crown prince was in Washington DC last week and made a statement at a briefing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. &#8220;We are committed to changes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1935#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1293],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}