When former UK prime minister Tony Blair spoke at a university graduation ceremony, Lisa Savage protested against the war criminal with the blood of a million Iraqis on his hands.

No wonder most Americans want out of Afghanistan: since the Obama troop "surge" in Afghanistan three years ago, it's been one fiasco, embarrassment, or atrocity after the other.

The government spends £25 billion a year on its war machine and is committed to spending hundres of billions more on buying new military hardware. At what cost to the disabled?

It was the Obama administration that smeared Bradley Manning's homosexuality as weird, and it was Obama himself who declared a man convicted of no crime to be guilty. 

The protesters remind us that the US government is not representative of the US people. It's encouraging to see so many willing to stand up against this unjust, disastrous war in Afghanistan.

There's no question of Nato leaders being held to legal account for the Libyan carnage, any more than they have been for far more direct crimes carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Having fought aggressive wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, NATO remains in Afghanistan, illegally, immorally, and to no coherent purpose.

The Obama administration has a growing armada of remotely piloted planes, aka drones, to fight a nameless, almost planet-wide war (formerly known as the Global War on Terror).

In the 'global war on terror', this would not be the first time that alleged bomb plots and atrocities have turned out to be the work of agent provocateurs and informants.

First the US ambassador to Pakistan resigned over Obama's drone attacks, now ex-CIA counter-terrorism chief says they are forcing Yemenis into violent extremism.

Even the usually silent Tony Blair has intervened for fear of the repercussions if any of the 2,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for their human rights dies.

The only answer which the US and its allies have to failing wars is to keep pouring money into them and hope for the best, says Stop the War's convenor Lindsey German.