Dr. Siddiqui is a Pakistani national, physician, mother of three young children, one in US detention since 2003. She was kidnapped five years ago in Pakistan and is obviously a victim of horrendous torture at Bagram AFB.

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky - August 24, 2008

From September 1-4, the [Republican National Convention] will be besieged by a panoply of protesters...At the frontlines will be America's young dissidents who will walk out of class, lock down intersections and dance in the streets...The view from Denver at the Democratic National Convention at the end of August will look a little different. That's because in the age of Obama many of these same movements, so united against the RNC, are deeply conflicted over the Democrats and the party system itself -- perhaps none more so than the youth movement.

By Andy Birkey , Minnesota Independent

With the Twin Cities set to host massive protests, an influx of media and thousands of Republicans and supporters, local corporate media are looking to fuel fears that things could get out of control. One activist group being targeted -- they say, unfairly -- is anarchists. They state that their plans do not include violence and that both their message and tactics are willfully misunderstood.

Wives of Men Arrested in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Forbidden to Work...or Leave.

Excited Delerium

The government just loves technology. They always assume that every problem—whether social, martial, economic, or ecological—is just waiting for some magic device to solve it. This is a weakness of theirs.

Earlier this week, the pigs & the city of Guelph issued an ultimatum to us - leave your home or face a violent eviction. We have been living on abandoned prison land for the past year & when the pigs come to enforce the eviction Monday August 25th, we will all be left homeless & the connection with the land we have been building will be severed.

Nicole Visschedyk | Mercury Staff

City serves notice

Young people living off the grid instructed to move elsewhere.

Major Victory for Free Speech Rights

August 19, 2008, New York – A group of 52 local activists today announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7, 2003 while protesting against the Iraq war in front of a military contractor's offices in midtown.

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

CBC News | Agreement 'incompatible' with company's way of doing business: spokesman

A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the world's largest retailer's history.

An innocent little Kachin girl was rapped and murdered by Burmese government troops. It was a most horrific tale for someone so young to endure. The details of which were beyond imagination.

[Warning: graphic material]

By HOWARD LISNOFF - Counterpunch

The news that Jeremy Hinzman was ordered deported from Canada struck like lightning! Hinzman, a 29-year-old war resister who has been living in Canada since 2004 lost his bid to remain in Canada by way of a decision of Canada’s Border Services Agency. The agency found that Hinzman did not qualify for compassionate or humanitarian consideration in his bid to remain in Canada...If Hinzman is convicted by court martial, which is likely given the public nature of his case, he faces a five-year prison sentence.

*Communiqué by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP)-Montreal*

The death of Freddy [Villaneuva] is part of a long history of repression, abuse and brutality by the Montreal police. What happened is unjustifiable. The police know that they committed an enormous error. They are trying to hide the facts...

The Guardian

NEW YORK - The Big Apple is turning into Big Brother, civil liberties groups have warned in response to a new plan from New York city’s police chiefs to photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan and hold the details on a massive database.

by Zoltán Dujisin - Inter Press Service

Georgia's step towards military confrontation comes after an increase in authoritarian and militaristic tendencies in a country that dealt catastrophically with Russia's pressure...On Aug. 8 Georgian troops tried to take control of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia, de facto independent since 1992, by engaging in heavy fighting in the regional capital Tskhinvali, 100 km north-west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi...Russia, officially in South Ossetian territory on a peacekeeping mission, responded by launching an extensive military operation in South Ossetia and beyond.