Stop the War Coalition

After the fiasco over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas attacks in Syria.

Every major criticism of Iran, used to justify America's harsh economic sanctions and overall belligerence toward the country, can also be lodged against the United States.

US involvement in Syria is risking regional war that could include Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, with the potential to drag in the bigger powers.

With its record of criminality and crimes against humanity, Britain has no right to pontificate and brow beat Syria, Iran or any other nation about "international obligations".

There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket home

When we look back in a few years, Hawking's decision to respect BDS may be seen as a turning point – the moment when boycotting Israel as a stance for justice went mainstream.

Today the US military is involved in scores of countries across all five continents, and its global military facilities make it the world's largest landlord.

The nations of Syria and Iraq today are little more than political fictions, crushed underfoot by foreign military and political intervention, and devoured by sectarian hatreds.

In their seeming urgency to present a case for war, BBC reporters have neglected factual accuracy of reported events and very much taken their lead from Western governments.

The demand by Cameron and other western politicians to increase the flow of arms is reckless and cynical, and will certainly ratchet up the death toll and spread the war.