Andrew W.K. was all set to show Bahrainis the "power of positive partying," until those buzzkills over at the State Department actually found out about it — then cancelled his would-be trip to the U.S. Embassy in Manama.
A series of five bombs went off in the capital of Bahrain on Monday morning, killing two people and reminding the world that the tiny nation's quiet revolt against its royal family is far from over.
"I couldn't believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting," journalist Amber Lyon is quoted as saying in Glenn Greenwald's latest column for The Guardian looking into the punches the news network may have pulled in a segment about Bahrain's crackdown on its opposition.
When Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) and his wife Samia arrived in Bahrain in April, they were greeted with a huge welcome poster featuring oversized smiling headshots of the Burtons.
Nabeel Rajab, activist and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was sentenced to three months behind bars on Monday, for posting a tweet that criticized Bahrain's prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Sulman al-Khalifa.
Tension between the government and protestors have left one person dead, and there are major security concerns for the teams involved in this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.
Much of the tear gas that billowed through Bahrain's streets Monday (and throughout the Arab Spring) was made by a Pennsylvania-based company called Combined Systems, so to mark the anniversary of protests in Bahrain, Anonymous took Combined Systems' website offline and dumped its employee and client data on the Web.
Stun guns, tear gas, and rubber bullets--those are the Valentine's Day presents Bahraini police are giving protesters who are looking to march on the anniversary of last year's pro-democracy uprisings.
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof on one of the young victims of Bahrain's crackdown on democracy protests, and why the government's ability to do so is partly in our hands.
The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is in Bahrain observing clashes between anti-government protesters and law enforcement today, and he got a first-hand reporting opportunity when police dragged him into their car
A firm has estimated the economic consequences to the Middle East uprisings
Authoritarian regimes relish turning the tables on their frequent Western critics
On testing chemicals, a politician's crusade against Islam, and the value of one's voice
Bahrain expands its crackdown to the protest movement's medium of choice
Reuters claims Al Jazeera is ignoring the unrest in the island nation
Why the protests that toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia appear to have petered out
Six are dead after riot police drove protesters from their headquarters
Sunni-Shiite tensions help explain Iran's stance
In Yemen, meanwhile, protesters stabbed a government official
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