Bahrain, oil and rebellion http://socialistworker.org/2011/02/22/bahrain-oil-and-rebellion

The state in the small Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain has unleashed violence and terror to stop a rapidly growing protest movement from making it the latest regime to fall as a result of the revolt sweeping the Arab world. Richard Seymour, author of The Liberal Defence of Murder and a blogger at Lenin's Tomb, looks at how Western oil interests have shaped Bahrain.