By Dave Zirin - July, 22 2008

In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z."...The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted nearly 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row..."Homeland Security" picked on the wrong sports writer. They also picked on the wrong group of activists. We will not be silenced.

Halper's account of Israeli repression plus an equitable solution he proposes in Part II of this review.

By MICHAEL PLATT - July 21, 2008

When you're a white-supremacist group struggling to bolster your foothold in a multicultural city, there's nothing like free cash to pique the interest of those looking to relocate their jackboots...To the disgust of those who don't subscribe to racial purity, Calgary's Aryan Guard is offering to cover the damage deposit of any white supremacist who will move to the city and join their cause.

By RON JACOBS; July 19/20, 2008 - Counterpunch

It's the perennial thorn in the colonialist's side. It's the war that won't go away. It's a wasp sting that swells, slowly choking the life out of the sting's recipient. It is the nearly seven-year old occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and various NATO allies. Nearly forgotten by most Americans, the situation in that country has taken headlines away from the occupation of Iraq because of the resurgence of the anti-occupation forces. Nine US troops were killed in one day, easily topping any recent US fatality figures coming out of Iraq in recent months.

By URI AVNERY - July 19/20, 2008

On Wednesday, [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah became the most important and powerful person in Lebanon. Three months after the crisis that almost caused a civil war, when [Lebanese] Prime Minister Fuad Siniora demanded that Hezbollah turn over its private communication network, Lebanon has become a unified country. Demands like the disarming of Hezbollah have become a pipe dream. Lebanon is also united in the demand for the liberation of the Shebaa farms [from Israel] and for the delivery by Israel of the maps of minefields and the deadly cluster bombs left by [Israel's] army after the second Lebanon war.

Adapted from No One Is Illegal – Vancouver

The publication ban on Shawn Brant's preliminary hearing was lifted today in a Napanee Court, making crucial evidence available to public scrutiny for the first time. The preliminary hearing dealt with charges arising from Mr. Brant's participation in two highway and rail blockade[s] held by Tyendinaga Mohawks in 2007 to pressure the government to resolve longstanding land claim[s] and poverty-related grievances.

July 16, 2008 - The Australian

The US's ability to defeat insurgents in Afghanistan has been thrown further into doubt after Sunday's deadly Taliban attack on a US outpost in the east of the country - an area recently touted as a counter-insurgency success...Increasingly bold attacks on US and NATO forces have forced them on to the defensive and analysts say coalition forces are now stretched to deal with deteriorating fronts both in the south and the east.

by GRAEME SMITH - July 16, 2008

More districts of Kandahar are controlled by the Taliban than by the Afghan government, according to a U.S. assessment that casts doubt on Canada's upbeat view of the war...A detailed analysis by U.S. security officials shows that foreign troops and their local allies hold sway over the core, highly populated districts of Kandahar, but the zone of government control remains a small part of the vast territory assigned to Canadian responsibility two years ago.

MNN. July 14, 2008. 10:40 a.m. This morning the Brantford City police arrested a Six Nations Indigenous person at the construction site at Fenn Ridge in Brantford. At the same time Ontario Provincial Police are gathering on Highway 403, making way for cement trucks to enter the illegal construction site.

By Jessica Bell - June 23, 2008

It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit on the night of Dec. 2, 2002, when sisters and young indigenous mothers Chrissy and Bonnie Swain from the Grassy Narrows First Nation drove from their reserve, located in the southern fringe of the vast Boreal Forest in northern Ontario, to the logging road just a few miles from their home...The sisters felled trees over the road to protest unwanted logging on their land by Abitibi Consolidated...Their protest was the spark that ignited their small community of 1,000 to launch a sustained direct-action campaign to stop logging.

By John Paul Zronik - Brantford Expositor

Six Nations protesters promised a full-fledged land occupation in Brantford following the arrest of a native protester by city police on Monday...“They’re going to have one hell of a fight now,” said Steve Powless, who spoke on behalf of the [Six Nations] protesters. “This is going to be Caledonia Part 2. They don’t understand what they’re in for.”

ROME - Fifteen Italian police officers and doctors were last night sentenced to jail terms of up to five years after being found guilty of abusing protesters detained during riots at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa. Thirty other defendants were cleared of charges ranging from assault to the denial of basic human rights.

By JASON STRAZIUSO AND GLEN JOHNSON - Monday, July 14, 2008

A multipronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 yesterday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said...The attack on the American troops began around 4:30 a.m. local time and lasted throughout the day. Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes and a mosque in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar...

SchNEWS | Friday 11th July 2008

Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT)...are uniformed officers, whose job it is to build profiles on those opposed to the status quo. The same few officers from a variety of police forces turn up at anti-capitalist, anti-arms trade, animal rights, squat evictions, the climate camp...They in turn pass...information onto agencies such as the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordinating Unit.