Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.

A Starbucks that occupies a corner of the Forbidden City faces closure after an online backlash against a foreign franchise in the former home of the emperors of China.

The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database.

In yet another shocking prelude towards becoming a Total Police State, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the American War Leaders have issued orders to the United States Military Northern Command authorizing the jailing, and military tribunals, for any American citizen critical of the ‘war effort’.

A Defense Department database devoted to gathering information on potential threats to military facilities and personnel, known as Talon, had 13,000 entries as of a year ago — including 2,821 reports involving American citizens, according to an internal Pentagon memo to be released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

On Thursday, during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Bush’s plan to escalate the war in Iraq, this reporter was sitting across the isle from a young man who was determined to register his opposition to the war by silently holding up a small sign bearing an antiwar slogan.

The likelihood that the George W. Bush presidential library will be located at SMU has not been welcome news for at least one segment of the university community.

Campaigners have won a legal battle to prove their rights to protest were violated when police stopped them from attending an anti-war demonstration.

Opposition protesters in Beirut, led by the pro-Syrian group Hezbollah, are to stage further rallies on Sunday, in the 10th day of protests in Lebanon.

Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Beirut after Hezbollah-led opposition groups called for mass protests to bring down the current government.

Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands.

An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings