The monks of South Asia have been chanting on behalf of the happiness and well-being of all creatures for 2,500 years. Now, the spirit of those mantras has marched out of the monastery and into the streets, even into the halls of the United Nations.

We‘ve been covering the attempts by Dutch anti-piracy operator BREIN to play a legal game of whac-a-mole to block The Pirate Bay by forcing ISPs to block access, then blocking proxies that provide access, and now blocking anyone from even talking about ways to get to The Pirate Bay. Bizarrely, a court in The Hague has agreed, and has come out in favor of blocking the Dutch Pirate Party from even discussing some of this stuff:

Der Verein Zivile Koalition e.V. hat mit einer einzigartigen Email-Aktion für Aufsehen im Bundestag gesorgt: Über 800.000 Bürger haben bei ihren Abgeordneten gegen die Europäischen Rettungsschirm ESM protestiert. Beatrix von Storch erklärt im Interview, wie die Abgeordneten reagiert haben.

Pasok-Staatspräsident Karolos Papoulias versucht Neuwahlen hinaus zu zögern. Er weiss warum.

Der Fiskalpakt sei noch nicht „verabschiedungsfähig“, man wolle „sich dabei nicht überfahren lassen“. Die Opposition, allen voran die SPD, sieht sich gestärkt durch die Forderung des neuen französischen Präsidenten Francois Hollande, den Fiskalpakt neu zu verhandeln.

Der britische Premierminister David Cameron hat wieder einmal einen guten Vorschlag für Europa: Die Eurozone solle eine gemeinsame Zentralregierung installieren. Großbritannien werde ein solches Unterfangen gerne von der Seitenlinie aus kommentieren.

Thousands of anti-government protesters take to the streets in Bahrain calling for change and the release of prisoners.

Chicago police are planning a range of tactics — some old, some new — to control protests outside the NATO summit scheduled for May 20 and 21. A look at some crowd-control techniques and the department’s position on them:

As the role and reach of British security and intelligence agencies increases, they are being watched – and rightly so

A senior Tory MP has asked the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5.

CIA analyst Michael Scheuer‘s recent call for bin Laden to kill more Americans would be shocking if we hadn‘t already heard it dozens of times before from other „War on Terror“ advocates.

Come to think of it, why not just shock and awe this immigrant-ridden wasteland ourselves and save Mr. bin Laden the effort? Communicating from caves can be soooooo annoying these days!

I don’t have the full exchange, so it’s possible that Scheuer is being taken out of context here.

Mike Scheur, the former head of the CIA‘s Bin Laden unit, said the leaking about the nuts and bolts of British involvement was despicable and would make a repeat of the operation difficult. „MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic,“ Scheur said.

He added: „Any information disclosed is too much information. This does seem to be a tawdry political thing.“

He noted that the leak came on the heels of a series of disclosures over the last 10 days, beginning with a report that the CIA wanted to expand its drone attacks in Yemen, Barack Obama making a surprise trip to Afghanistan around the time of the Bin Laden anniversary and „then this inexplicable leak“.

The ‚Spanish revolution‘, born as it happens at Puerta del Sol on Saturday May 15 2011, has since become a ‚global revolution‘, spreading across the entire planet and bringing millions of young people onto the streets of cities from London to New York, from Athens to Calcutta, from Rome to Paris.

One year on from its beginning, there has been a return to the place where that first spark detonated the worldwide movement, to Madrid‘s most emblematic central square.

Make no mistake: while the public has no access to, or information about, what the federal government is negotiating, the big special interests are well informed. As pressure has been mounting against TPP, it appears that the US Chamber of Commerce has „brought the band back together,“ putting outa letter to the Obama administration explaining why draconian IP rules must be included in the TPP.

US-Offiziere lernten in einem Ausbildungskurs, wie Krieg gegen den Islam geführt werden sollte – inklusive Atombombe. Erst jetzt meldete sich ein Teilnehmer mit Bedenken…

„Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction,“ the class materials said