Amy Goodman
@DemocracyNow·3.2M subscribers·19.4K videos
Toby Jones: Aiming to Preserve Mideast Rule, Saudi Arabia Helps Crush Uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen
Posted
June 16, 2011
Views
1,188
Likes
16
Engagement
1.35%
June 16, 2011
1,188
16
1.35%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
5:11Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - While the United States remains heavily involved in the Libya conflict, it has been noticeably silent on popular uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen, both of which are close allies of Saudi Arabia. In March, Bahrain called in Saudi troops to help crush the pro-democracy protests. Democracy Now! discusses the role of Saudi Arabia in recent regional uprisings with Toby Jones, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University and former a former Persian Gulf analyst with the International Crisis Group.
For the transcript, podcast, and for more Democracy Now! reports about the popular uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen and across the Middle East, visit
FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE:
Twitter: @democracynow
Daily Email News Digest
Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
