'Imperialism behind Bahrain crackdown' by Ralph Schoenman, the author of The Hidden History of Zionism  http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/820840-imperialism-behind-bahrain-crackdown

Schoenman: I don't think the US will respond in a positive manner. I don't think the US government and the rulers of the US have the faintest interest in the democratic rights. On the contrary, they have sustained the Al Khalifa royal dictatorship, the Wahhabi control of Bahrain precisely to suppress the population and everything that is done by the regime is done with the sanction of the US, the nerve gas that has been inflicted upon the demonstrators and identified by nine doctors and by the Human Rights Watch in Bahrain.

The evidence that is presented by physicians for the human rights in the United States, by its chairman and the delegation that went there, has exposed on a global scale the nature of this assault upon the population. Bear in mind, please, the Cobra helicopters, the F-16 jets, the automatic weapons, the arsenal of 10,000 troops of Saudi Arabia that have invaded Bahrain; these are American weapons, these crimes are taking place less than half a mile away from the Fifth Fleet and the presence of US troops.

Can you seriously believe that the US authorities are either ignorant or incapable of stopping or opposing these actions? They take place under the direct sanction of US authority; it is a measure of that fact that the normally cautious AFL-CIO and its president have gone to these extraordinary length because it is a reflection of the sentiments among the rank and file workers on a global scale and the extraordinary measure of detaining, torturing and killing doctors and ambulance drivers and nurses and physicians for treating protesters.