{"id":115337,"date":"2014-04-29T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=5986655614bb9b27295b4d32d0b07745"},"modified":"2014-04-29T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:22:04","slug":"talk-nation-radio-fahad-desmukh-western-pr-firms-cover-for-bahrains-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/talk-nation-radio-fahad-desmukh-western-pr-firms-cover-for-bahrains-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk Nation Radio: Fahad Desmukh: Western PR Firms Cover for Bahrain&#8217;s Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/147082014&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/sites\/davidswanson.org\/files\/Desmukh.JPG\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidcnswanson\/talk-nation-radio-fahad-desmukh-western-pr-firms-cover-for-bahrain\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidcnswanson\/talk-nation-radio-fahad-desmukh-western-pr-firms-cover-for-bahrain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brutal monarchy in Bahrain hires Western public relations firms (not to mention a lawyer now in the news for marrying U.S. actor George Clooney) to clean up its public image. We speak with Fahad Desmukh, a founding member of Bahrain Watch and a freelance journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He grew up in Bahrain and was among the first generation of bloggers in the country, writing under the pseudonym of &#8220;Chanad Bahraini&#8221;.&nbsp; Bahrain Watch is an independent research and advocacy organization that seeks to promote effective, transparent and accountable governance in Bahrain. See <a href=\"https:\/\/bahrainwatch.org\/\">https:\/\/bahrainwatch.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Total run time: 29:00<\/p>\n<p>Host: David Swanson.<br \/>Producer: David Swanson.<br \/>Music by Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<p>Download from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/talknationradio_20140430\" >Archive<\/a> or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/sites\/davidswanson.org\/files\/talknationradio\/talknationradio_20140430.mp3\">LetsTryDemocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pacifica stations can also download from <a href=\"http:\/\/audioport.org\/index.php?op=program-info&amp;program_id=70535&amp;nav=&amp;\" >AudioPort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Syndicated by Pacifica Network.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please embed the SoundCloud audio on your own website!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Talk Nation Radio shows are all available free and complete at<br \/><a _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/talknationradio\" href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/talknationradio\">http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/talknationradio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4383\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidcnswanson\/talk-nation-radio-fahad-desmukh-western-pr-firms-cover-for-bahrain<br \/>\nThe brutal monarchy in Bahrain hires Western public relations firms (not to mention a lawyer now in the news for marrying U.S. actor George Cloone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}