Iran supports a Middle East nuclear weapons free zone but Israel refuses to give up its hundreds of nuclear weapons or to open up its stockpile to international inspections.

At the NATO summit, we can expect more threats to countries which do not comply with the NATO powers' wishes, more determination to continue the failed war in Afghanistan, and more contempt for the lives of those who suffer in wars and the opinions of the majority of people who regularly oppose them.

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.

Syria has become the focal point in the Middle East region, as the democratic, anti-imperialist organisations that led the peaceful protest movement initially have been eclipsed by Nato-backed forces.

As with any insurgency, the best response, says Jonathan Steele, is not foreign military intervention but to address the injustices and poverty which lie at its root.

Despite continued words of caution from the White House about getting into another messy Middle East war, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing for more intervention.

The days have gone when sportsmen and sportswomen can dissociate themselves from the moral values in which we claim to believe in the 21st century.

The US is siding with the regime in its campaign against its citizens through its silent complicity over its ally’s crimes and through continuation of arms sales.

As the Bahrain tyranny cracks down on pro-democracy protests, and hunger-striking protest leader Abdulhadi Alkhawaja nears death, Formula 1 organisers refuse to cancel the 22 April Grand Prix.

Lindsey German, national convenor of Stop the War Coalition, remembers Ben Bella, who in 1963 became the first president of an independent Algeria after it was liberated from French colonial rule, and who has died at the age of 95.

What the hell, let's have another intervention. That is the message from the liberal press which has learnt nothing from its craven support for past wars.

NATO refused to look into allegations of the scores of civilian deaths that independent investigations said it caused, so it is impossible for the official tally to rise above zero.

The very idea that an organization principally designed to cause humanitarian disasters — for that is what war truly is — should be used to relieve human suffering is preposterous.

As in the case of Libya, this one-sided media coverage of the Syrian conflict is facilitating the escalation of the conflict towards a civil war and foreign military intervention.

Western journalists have learnt nothing from 10 years of spinning the '9/11' wars and have collectively abandoned their analytical and critical faculties when it comes to Syria.

Oil? Oil driving the ruthless geopolitical strategies of western politicians behind a cynical facade of humanitarian concern? Boy, that's a new one!