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Riot porn wise, there was some pretty sweet burning and looting outside the NATO summit in Strasbourg recently.

Social Rupture is a frequently updated blog on attacks in the U.$. and links to a number of similar blogs from Europe and Canada.

Manila, Philippines - Hundreds of students clashed with police outside the U.S. embassy and Filipino Supreme Court, demanding the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces and expressing rage at the Filipino Government as well. The U.S. military has maintained a presence in the Philippines since 1898.

Another anti-U.S. youth action in Manila got rowdy in June and also involved clashes with police while attempting to storm the embassy.

Rumieh, Lebanon - Over a hundred inmates rioted in Beirut's largest prison, "burning mattresses and other items to press their demands for reduced sentences".

The same prison was the scene of a mutiny in April last year in which seven warders were held hostage. A riot also broke out at the Qubbah prison in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli in January with inmates holding two wardens hostage.

Nairobi, Kenya - An anti-police demonstration sparked by the police killings of a student and two human rights activists turned into a riot in the Kenyan capital. Thousands of youth, who have faced a rising tide of police violence in "anti-gang" crackdowns in recent years, built barricades, beat up journalists, pelted police with stones and looted businesses. Witnesses said a rally of about 2,000 students more than doubled in size as slum dwellers, jobless and others joined in.

Dresden, Germany - Anarchists and antifascists broke away from a permitted demonstration of 10,000 to battle police protecting 6,000 Nazis and nationalists gathered to mark the 65th anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden by the U.S. Rage against the fascist presence resulted in two flipped police vehicles and hours of clashes with rocks and other objects hurled at police.

Tongxiang, China - Hundreds of migrant workers clashed with more than 100 regular and armed police in this city in the southern province of Zhejiang on Saturday, leaving six police vehicles smashed or burned, witnesses and said. One witness described thousands of people besieging the police detachment: "the protesters, most of whom seemed to be migrant labourers, were so discontented and indignant that they hurled almost everything within their reach, including bricks, stones and bottles, even when the police seemed prepared to retreat."

Bilbao - Hundreds of demonstrators in the Basque region's largest city built barricades of burning dumpsters and fought police for control of the streets. Incendiary devices were thrown at the offices of the Basque Nationalist Party. The provocation for the riot was the banning by Spain of pro-independence groups from participating in elections. The Basques are one of Europe's longest-colonized and least-assimilated indigenous cultures, with an equally long history of resistance to the rule of Madrid and Paris.

Monterrey, Mexico - In a fourth day of evening-rush-hour street protests against mlitary operations in the region, masked protestors blockaded major streets of this industrial city in northern Mexico and burned a truckload of wooden pallets. The day before, fireworks and molotov cocktails were thrown at police.

Authorities and the media have portrayed demonstrators as tools of the drug cartels, but admit the global economic crisis is a major force behind the unrest. In the past five months, the U.S. consulate and a TV station in Monterrey have been attacked with grenades.

Piraeus, Greece - Hundreds of farmers from the island of Crete battled riot police at the port of Piraeus, near the capital Athens. The farmers arrived on board three ships, bringing 300 pieces of farm equipment such as tractors, which they intended to use to create a convoy to Athens to demand aid from the government. Farm vehicles are barred from the capital's roads, and wound up being used to try to smash through police barricades at the port's gates. Farmers also pelted police with potatoes and struck them with crooks, traditional tools of Greek shepherds.

Thousands of farmers have been protesting across Greece since Jan. 20, blockading the country’s main roads. Most of the blockades were removed last week, although one remains on the border with Bulgaria. Greek farmers’ income has shrunk by almost 24 percent in the last decade, according to their labor union.

On the same day in Athens, about 200 protestors smashed their way into Athens City Hall and interrupted a city council meeting to express displeasure with the felling of trees and destruction of a public park to build a parking garage in the Kypseli neighborhood.

Pecos, Texas - Rioting inmates "heavily damaged" at least one building in a two-day riot, the second such unrest at the Reeves County Detention Center in as many months. The Reeves County Detention Center is run by the Geo Group and houses federal inmates who are being held on immigration charges. Smoke was seen pouring from the prison on Saturday night. "We do not have anything in control," one guard told KVIA-TV, El Paso, Texas. "Everything is out of control."

Geneva, Switzerland - Demonstrations against the World Economic Forum erupted in street clashes, with youth throwing bottles and fireworks at police.

Paris - A massive protest against president Sarkozy's handling of the financial crisis erupted in rioting, with youths throwing bottles, setting fires and pulling up manhole covers in battles with police. On Thursday, around a million French workers participated in a mass strike called "Black Thursday" which severely disrupted transportation throughout the country and saw massive demonstration in Marseille as well.

Tripoli, Lebanon: Prisoners began rioting on Sunday in northern Lebanon's largest prison and took at least three guards hostage. Security officials said the rioting inmates at the Qubeh prison in the northern city of Tripoli are demanding better conditions. Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city, is 50 miles north of Beirut. Smoke was seen rising from the building as apparently the prisoners set part of the prison on fire.

Athens - Several hundred anarchists rioted during a protest to demand the release of the 67 arrestees being held from the December riots. Demonstrators smashed several banks, set fire to a bus station, looted a Nike store, attacked a security camera and threw stones and chunks of pavement at police who were firing tear gas. A fire bomb was thrown at the defense minister's office. A solidarity march in the western city of Patras attacked a newspaper building and some banks, causing damage.

Reykjavik, Iceland - Thousands of protesters angry about the failures of the country's government and economic system clashed with police and attacked the parliament building. Demonstrators surrounded the Althing House and smashed windows to that and other government buildings. A large bonfire was built outside and people continued to hold police off and away from the area late into the night.