The greatest weapon of mass destruction was the invasion itself: over the past ten years, Iraqis have seen the physical, social and economic destruction of their country.
Economic sanctions -- the least-cost first resort of the laptop bombardiers of global intervention -- sound punitive and aggressive without inflicting any hardship on the imposer.
The Real News Network TV station reports on Stop the War Coalition's international conference, Confronting War Ten Years On, which met in London on 9 February 2013
The hawks were wrong on every count. Wrong about the weapons; wrong about being greeted with flowers; wrong about the human cost; wrong about Iraq becoming a flourishing democracy.
Obama's credibility in challenging lawless violence in US cities is undermined by his personal kill list in violation of international law for enemies elsewhere.
The United States is in a state of perpetual war, spending $633 billion this year on defense, with over 200,000 US servicemembers deployed around the world.
For 10 years British politicians like Jack Straw, Gordon Brown and David Miliband have flatly denied that the British state was complicit in torture during the war on terror.
War criminal Tony Blair got more than he bargained for when he met Harry Patch, longest suriviving soldier from World War 1.
Over a million sent a message to Blair: we don't want this war. And it wasn't just London -- Damascus, Athens, Seoul, Rome, Tokyo, Sydney - hundreds of cities worldwide witnessed the same thing.
As Cameron toured the North African region speaking of tackling terrorism, open democracy and eradicating poverty, most journalists failed to point out some very basic facts.





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