Protesters threw petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks at police during another night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. Police fired baton rounds and used a water cannon to disperse protesters as cars were set on fire and the windows of several houses were smashed. The disorder began on Monday after a peaceful protest...
SEIU California President David Huerta was arrested while protesting the Trump administration’s militarized raid of LA. California union leader David Huerta has been released from federal custody after his arrest by federal immigration agents sparked an outcry from labor and other advocates across the country amid President Donald Trump’s rogue, militarized raid of Los Angeles....
“Domestic Violent Extremists” is not a rhetorical flourish when employed by intelligence agencies. It has a very specific meaning and empowers US government intelligence and law enforcement officials to take enhanced steps to monitor and investigate you. What would be “unreasonable” searches under the Fourth Amendment suddenly become “reasonable,” based on your enhanced danger to...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a “violent” fight at a Cornish pub. Officers said “several” people were injured in the fight which broke out at the Four Lords pub in St Blazey Gate, Par, on Friday at about 22:30 BST. The fight, involving two groups of people, started in the toilets of the pub...
Warning: This article contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. His family has given permission to use his name and image. Two men have been found guilty of the murder of Cassius Turvey, an Aboriginal schoolboy who was chased down by a vigilante gang and beaten, in a case which...
I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I have...
Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Reuters Cars have been torched in a series of attacks on French jails since Sunday night Officially, all lines of enquiry are still open into a wave of arson and gun attacks at French prisons. That means police haven’t ruled out the extremist left, or a foreign power such as...
What a find! We now know without doubt that the Teotihuacan culture, the “prehistoric heart” of what is now Mexico, was a thriving community dedicated to helping men ascend the spiritual ladder to become gods. How do we know? Archaeologists have discovered a temple where priests sacrificed children. Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently...