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Popular uprisings spread across Middle East despite brutal crackdowns

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Saturday February 19, 2011 11:45author by Joe


Mike Head on the wave of uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa and the barbaric response from western- backed dictatorships. . Troops loyal to the Bahrain royal family have been using live ammunition against protestors resulting in many deaths . The article suggests that America , whose Fifth Fleet is based in the oil-rich state of Bahrain ,is acting in close collaboration with the royal regime .

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/lead-f19.shtml

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