{"id":1255,"date":"2011-12-19T05:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/19\/repressing-democracy-with-american-arms\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:27","slug":"repressing-democracy-with-american-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/19\/repressing-democracy-with-american-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Repressing Democracy, With American Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>
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Should President Obama sell $53 million worth of arms to Bahrain when it continues to violently repress its citizens?
Via nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties Should President Obama sell $53 million worth of arms to Bahrain when it continues to violently repress its citizens?Via nytimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1251,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/19\/john-nichols-bargaining-rights-are-human-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":0},"title":"John Nichols: Bargaining rights are human rights","author":"aslam","date":"December 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Claiming that collective bargaining rights must be swept away in order to balance budgets is like claiming that free speech rights, the right to privacy or the right to bear arms must be eliminated in order to address fiscal challenges. \u00a0Via host.madison.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1243,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/21\/bahrain-frees-blogger-on-bail-to-reinstate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":1},"title":"Bahrain frees blogger on bail, to reinstate workers","author":"aslam","date":"December 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Bahrain, under pressure to improve its right record to secure a purchase of U.S. arms, said on Tuesday it freed on bail a Shi'ite female blogger arrested last week and would reinstate state employees suspended following pro-democracy protests.Via reuters.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1104,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/10\/video-shows-officers-beating-motorist-in-diabetic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":2},"title":"Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock","author":"aslam","date":"February 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAdam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. 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