While Libya is receiving extensive, but not always accurate, coverage in US mainstream media, the continuing uprising in Bahrain is receiving little. And events there may be much more portentous for the Empire than in Libya.
Across the region, traditional methods of co-opting opposition through the spread of wealth are manifestly failing to deter calls for political reform and substantive change. Ruling families are looking anxiously at Bahrain as the cycle of political contagion and regime repression moves inexorably toward the Gulf.
