Senator Don Oliver photograph in the court yard of the Senate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., June 27, 2011. Blacks in Canada need to unite, rise up and address the deep racism in this country that keeps them out of positions of power, a Conservative senator says. “What will it take for our collective Afro-Canadian family to unite — to rise up and claim our rightful place in Canadian society?”... 

Angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles. Angered hockey fans attack Vancouver angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 loss... 

Greek police forces face anti-austerity protesters on June 15, 2011. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced that he is to form a new government and push forward tougher economic measures despite anti-austerity protests in the country. Papandreou plans to form a new cabinet and to seek a confidence vote from his Socialist Party in an attempt to continue austerity plans to reduce the country’s... 

Twitter protesters in their green "uniforms". The U.S. government funded the creation of wireless networks to facilitate secret communications for opposition groups to avoid the control of authorities in nations such as Iran, Syria and Libya. According to The New York Times, the State Department and the Pentagon spent about $50 million to also create an independent network of mobile telephones... 

The Shiite Wifaq Party succeeded in staging a demonstration some 10,000 strong in the town of Sar, Bahrain, on Saturday. Movement leader Sheikh Ali Salman called a “big lie” the charge that Wifaq wanted an Iran-style theocracy, countering that it just wanted a civil state. The Wifaq demands for a constitutional monarchy in the small Sunni-ruled island kingdom had been met with a brutal crackdown... 

World View: The anti-regime demonstrations that worked so rapidly and unexpectedly in Tunisia and Egypt are faltering elsewhere as rulers fight to hold on to power The Arab awakening is turning into the Arab nightmare. Instead of ushering in democracy, the uprisings in at least three Arab states are fast becoming vicious civil wars. In the past 10 days, crucial developments in Syria, Libya and Yemen... 

Bahraini protesters demand an end to 40 years of rule of Al Khalifa dynasty. Anti-government protesters have once again taken to the streets in Bahrain, demanding an end to the rule of Al Khalifa dynasty. The massive protest rallies were held in towns and villages around the capital, Manama, following the Friday Prayers. Witnesses say Saudi-backed Bahraini forces attacked anti-regime protesters in... 

Activists in Minsk protest against rise of fuel prices. As Minsk struggles to deal with the ongoing economic turmoil, rapid inflation is brewing unrest. The government had to lower fuel prices two days after a sharp increase, due to mass protests. ­On Thursday, Belarusian gas prices have dropped by almost a quarter, after President Lukashenko’s ordered the government to lower the cost. The prices... 

Who ever thought the saying, “It’s the economy stupid,” from James Carville in 1992 would become a staple in presidential elections 20 years later? That expression made its way into the campaign in 2008, and according to Carville, it could be the theme of the 2012 campaign as well as President Barack Obama seeks reelection. In an appearance on Monday’s “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox... 

Greek protesters hold a demonstration in front of the old university in Athens, Greece, on May 31, 2011. The protest was organized by Greek academics against austerity measures and was joined by thousands of Greek citizens. Greek prime minister outlines programme of state sell-offs and further belt-tightening. With protests dividing his own party and tens of thousands taking to the streets, Greece’s... 

Pro-Palestinians protesters take cover from Israeli forces shooting near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria who rushed to the frontier fence in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty. Syrian state-run media said 23 were killed. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be... 

Editor’s note: After the report below was filed, the Park Police in DC sent in a SWAT team. “As the monument was cleared of participants and press alike, several people remained, dancing gleefully in front of SWAT team members who had arrived,” reports The Daily Caller. In addition to the SWAT team, the cops erected a fence around the monument. A report from the Tenth Amendment Center: “At... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli and Palestinian activists are to stage a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to welcome the establishment of a Palestinian state. The rally is expected to be held in Tel Aviv on Saturday under the slogan “Netanyahu said no and we say yes to the Palestinian state,” and “Netanyahu is leading us to disaster,”... 

An RT America television host Adam Kokesh was violently slammed and choked by police who arrested the host after he took part in a flash-mob at the publicly-funded Jefferson Memorial. On May 28 Adam and other activists were arrested seconds after they started silently dancing in what they say was a celebration of the first amendment’s champion. The police officers slammed some of them; others... 

The real irony of of this was Netanyahu’s speech in response to Rae Abileah’s protest: “You know, I take it as a badge of honor, and so should you, that in our free societies you can have protests. You can’t have these protests in the farcical parliaments in Tehran or in Tripoli. This is real democracy!” “This is real democracy”, said Netanyahu as the woman...