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US: Obama Publicly Call on the Government of Bahrain to Immediately and Unconditionally Release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a human rights defender and democracy activist in Bahrain, may soon die, as he has been on a hunger strike for more than two months. This, in a country that has been a U.S. ally for years.

Al-Khawaja was arrested one year ago and sentenced to life in prison in June 2011 as part of a group trial of 21 activists and human rights defenders.

All the News from All Angles

Why do Western media lie repeating the slogan "Reporting all the news from all angles” when they know they don’t?

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - This morning burning tires on the highway filled the air with black smoke and blocked traffic. Yesterday, Molotov cocktails killed a policeman trying to keep order.

The day before saw oil spread on the roads so that cars would slip and slide and collide with each other.

Bahrain: Release Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - Bahrain should immediately and unconditionally release Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja from prison.

Mr. Al-Khawaja has been in a Hunger Strike for four weeks, he is now suffering deteriorated health, entering his fourth week without nourishment. In an open letter, Al-Khawaja pledged to stay on hunger strike until “freedom or death.”

America: On the Wrong Side of the World Revolution

While seeds of dissent are sprouting in America in the form of the occupy movements, the lack of vibrant political opposition remains truly striking.

(TEHRAN) - Almost half a century has passed since Dr. King uttered those dire but eloquent words of warning when the United States of America was engaged in a barbaric aggression against the Vietnamese people.

Since then, corporate greed, technology and consumerism have come to reign supreme in the U.S., and the inherent evils of racism, materialism and militarism as we were forewarned by Dr. King appear now to be invincible.

The Butterfly Effect

Bouazizi was followed by self immolation of Mohsen Bouterfif in Algeria, Yacoub Ould Dahoud in Mauritania.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The poverty stricken nobody whose death changed the world, Mohamed Bouazizi, was a 26 year old from Tunisia.

The all-out hypocrisy of Arab League and the West

94 Yemenis were killed and over 800 injured since UN Resolution 2014 was issued...

(TEHRAN) - After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the U.S., the resurgence of violence in Egypt and Bahrain and Yemen and the unrelenting massacre of innocent civilians by the barbaric regime of Al Khalifa and Ali Abdullah Saleh once again attracted the attention of conscientious observers in the international community.

So far 44 Bahraini citizens were killed at the hands of the mercenaries of Al Khalifa regime.

Wyden, McGovern Statement on Release of Bahraini Human Rights Report

"We are heartened to hear that the King has agreed to make changes in response to the report. However, these changes must be lasting and significant."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Reaffirming their opposition to the sale of arms to the Kingdom of Bahrain until sustaining human rights improvements are made, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass) released the following statement on the Bahrain Independent Commission’s report on human rights:

“The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry’s (BICI) report confirms accounts from human rights groups and Bahrainis who have spoken out against the abuses of this year...

Libya and hypocrisy of the `Left`

Those defending Gaddafi must remember the dictator's litany of crimes against his own people...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The winds of change are sweeping the Arab world.

Thanks to the people of Tunisia and Egypt the Arabs are experiencing a momentous claim for new history, a new renaissance.

Media Falsifiers

'I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit -- Thucydides

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Day after day, TV anchor after anchor has been boasting "News from all angles, from all points of view."

There's never been such an open campaign to convince television viewers they aren't being brainwashed by the media's restricted point of view.

Updates from Human Rights First

Elisa Massimino is the President and CEO of Human Rights First

(NEW YORK) - News of the Osama bin Laden operation wasn't even a day old when torture apologists began claiming vindication.

To hear former vice president Dick Cheney and his allies tell it, without the CIA's water-boarding program, the United States would never have found bin Laden.