Once again this astute journalist sees what most media conceals that is moving events in the Arab countries. Here he provides little known desperate actions of the US and its Saudi satrap to contain and roll back the Arab people's yearning for some version of democracy. Obviously this presents a challenge for news gatekeepers and propagandists in the US to maintain their fictions about US support of democracy in the Middle East.
And just like a thief in the dead of night, who sneaked into Washington to be received at the White House by US President Barack Obama this past Tuesday? No one else than Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman al-Khalifa.
There was no press conference. There were no pictures. It's like this conversation would self-destruct in five seconds - but it did take place, between a drone-heavy Nobel Peace Prize and the head of the military of a Persian Gulf American satrapy which is busy toppling its own people. No amount of rhetoric will alter the math: Washington fully backs outright repression all across the Persian Gulf - to the extreme delight of the House of Saud.