Back in 2006, a number of people died and more than 100,000 were made ill as a result of illegal toxic dumping by the Dutch company Trafigura. Yesterday two men were jailed for the crime. Company executives are still in their offices making money...

McCain and Obama both agree on sending more troops to Afghanistan. However, both need to look a little closer at the mess there as represented by today's sentence of 20 years to a student who downloaded information on women's rights. TIME FOR A CHANGE!

The northern Israel city of Acre or Akko was calm last night after four nights of riots. What some call riots, others call a pogrom against Palestinians. Welcome to a little Bosnia in the making.

Hundreds of Icelanders vented their fury Friday at central bank chief David Oddsson, the man blamed for the country's financial collapse, as the government appeared unable to ward off national bankruptcy...as a cold war erupts with Britain...

According to an article in the Asia Sentinel written by Thai scholar Giles Ji Unphakorn, the rioters are right wing thugs led by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) who came prepared with iron bars and crash helmets. PAD opposes one person one vote.

Mauritanian security forces beat and fired tear gas at opponents of the ruling military junta on Sunday when they defied a government ban on street demonstrations. There are mixed feelings within the country about the coup which the USA and Europe opposed

More than 30,000 people turned out on the streets of Mexico City on Thursday to demand justice for student protesters killed by Mexican security forces in a 1968 demonstration. The killings took place just days before the city was host to the Olympics.

Police in southern France have arrested at least 15 people with links to Basque separatist groups in the past couple of days. Members of the groups Batasuna and Askatasuna (both legal in France) were targets of the police round up.

Israeli peace activist Professor Ze'ev Sternhell was the victim of a pipe bomb attack at his home Thursday. Pamphlets offering a reward for the physical assault of left-wing activists were found near the professor's home on Wednesday night.

Hundreds of First Nations people took to the streets today to protest what National Chief Phil Fontaine called an education system "in crisis."