The New Dark Age

14 February, 2011 — MRZine

Among the most watched Bahraini protest videos today is this one showing police attacking protesters in Duraz, Bahrain, 14 February 2011:

Protest organizers say a protester by the name of Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 27 years old, was killed by police in Manama.

For many reasons (the corporate media’s propaganda system, many Bahraini protesters’ apparent religiosity, a sectarian divide among Arabs and Muslims, the sheer odds against a successful protest in a Gulf state, etc.), the Bahraini protesters are unlikely to gain as much media attention as Iran’s Green ones or Egypt’s Jan25 ones — hence this note by way of cyber-witnessing.

Yoshie Furuhashi is editor of MRZine.  For more information, visit, e.g., <www.facebook.com/TrueRoyalDemocracy>.  Cf. As’ad AbuKhalil, “The First Martyr in Bahrain” (Angry Arab News Services, 14 February 2011).