In addition to the lack of US mainstream media coverage of the anti-government protests in Bahrain, I have also noticed that the uprising in Yemen has also almost completely disappeared from their coverage. With this article Turse compensates for this lack and clarifies the real power interests informing US Empire policies.
After watching two allied autocrats fall in Tunisia and Egypt, the United States has focused on its periodic enemy, Gaddafi in Libya, and has done little of substance to advocate for, let alone facilitate, demands for democracy and social change by protesters in allied states that are more integral to its military plans in the region, including Yemen, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Instead, Washington has continued to support repressive governments to which it has provided training, weapons and other military equipment that has already been used or could be used to suppress grassroots democratic movements.
