Press TV | Demonstrators have blocked roads in and around Beirut with burning tires, protesting against the govt's economic and social policies. Witnesses said the main road leading to Beirut's international airport was among routes blocked by the protesters, who support the Hezbollah-led opposition, Reuters reports. On Tuesday, Hezbollah called on all workers and employees to demonstrate on May 7, blaming ...

By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: “I told you about how I wanted to build a career around social activism and making a difference. You told me that one of the most important things was to make myself ...

Rikki - Indymedia | At around 1.30 this afternoon, a community support officer started hassling Aqil Shaerer who is a pro-Palestinian protestor associated with Brian Haw and often around Parliament Square. It is unclear what grounds they had for this. Brian became involved and explained to them that Aqil was part of his authorised demonstration. Two more CSO officers became involved, ...

By Raphael G. Satter | Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this weekend.Banksy marshaled more than three dozen international artists for what he's calling the "Cans Festival" — and is encouraging visitors to contribute their own graffiti starting Saturday. "I'm hoping we ...

AFP | More than 100 Tibetan exiles, mostly young monks and nuns, were detained Friday at a pro-Tibet protest in front of a Chinese embassy building in the Nepalese capital, police said. "More than 100 Tibetans have been taken to various police stations and will be freed by nightfall," Kathmandu police officer Hom Jung Chauhan told AFP. Demonstrators shouted slogans such as "China liars," ...

AP - PHOENIX |  A Tennessee couple who lost their son in Iraq want an Arizona merchant to pay more than $40 billion in damages to survivors of soldiers whose names are on the anti-war shirts he is selling online. A complaint seeking class-action status for the lawsuit by Robin and Michael Read says Dan Frazier of Flagstaff has no right to ...

CNS | Back on Chinese soil after a troubled trip around the world, the Olympic torch relay's journey through Hong Kong Friday will be a test of Beijing's willingness to allow free expression in the semi-autonomous territory. The torch's Hong Kong visit kicks off a three-month trip through China, including a controversial planned stop in Tibet in June, before the Olympic Games ...

By Jeff Cohen | In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers – no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated. In my 2006 book Cable News Confidential, I ...

By Hussein Kadhim and Raviya H. Ismail | About 50 leaders representing a variety of Iraqi political blocs took to Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a stronghold of fiery religious leader Muqtada al Sadr, to protest the U.S.-led siege of that area.The leaders promised to work together with Sadrists to remove insurgents and weapons in the ...

By Adam Jadhav | Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.The suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law ...

AP | An Islamic charity group is challenging the Bush administration's record use of the so-called state secrets privilege, dubbed a "killer bullet" to the group's case over warrantless wiretapping. Lawyers for the Oregon-based U.S. arm of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation on Wednesday urged a federal judge to toss out the government's use of the privilege and let their lawsuit proceed. The now-defunct foundation ...

By Christine Buckley and Francis Elliott  | Britain faces a wave of industrial unrest this summer as unions, emboldened by Gordon Brown’s climbdown after the 10p tax revolt, ballot millions of members on strike action. Workers in local government, the health service, the Civil Service, the Royal Mail and even the Sellafield nuclear site could join teachers in ...

By Graeme Paton and Sophie Borland | Teachers have threatened further industrial action as a national strike hit up to 9,500 schools across England and Wales on Thursday. Members of the National Union of Teachers said they "felt no guilt" following the walkout that saw more than one million children turned away from lessons. Some picketed outside schools in ...

By Tania Branigan and Paul Kelso | The linked rings on every Chinese Coke bottle and the leaping athletes on each McDonald's paper bag testify to the power the world's biggest corporations believe this summer's Olympics wields. But having spent huge sums, the companies sponsoring the Beijing games are about to find themselves the targets of a ...

By by Lee Wood | This 2008 Abolitionist Plank is provisional. We humbly seek and request like-minded recommendations and participation. Tell us what additional structural, material conditions, and/or points you believe are necessary for abolishing slavery. prisonslavery [at] yahoo.com · 1. Removal of the EXCEPTION for slavery and involuntary servitude in the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and in the various State Constitutions with the return of citizenship, labor, economic, and human ...