"There is nothing heroic about being blown up in a vehicle, there is nothing heroic about being shot in an ambush and there is nothing heroic about the deaths of countless civilians."

Cameron says the despots ruling Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and other Gulf states need British arms "to defend themselves" -- and they do -- against their own people struggling for democratic rights.

The UK arms trade receives about £852m a year in subsidies, much of it going to BAE, a company with a track record of bribery, espionage and arms deals with oppressive regimes.

David Cameron claims to be on the side of peace and democracy in the Middle East while acting as travelling salesman for the arms industry in dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British -- but the United States is catching up fast.

The politicians wearing red flowers on Remembrance Day have cheerfully authorised the decimation of jobs, welfare and public education to defend Britain's military spending and nuclear arsenal.

Why, you may well ask, should politicians, military men and corporations make these decisions in such secrecy when we will all live with them in the decades to come?

How to justify continuing a war going nowhere and the pointless 'sacrifice' of UK soldiers. Simple: confine the troops to barracks and use 'risk-free' unmanned drones to kill Afghans.

Oldfield's jailing comes as part of long series of heavy sentences for UK protesters, which are clearly intended to deter anyone thinking of exercise their democratic right to protest.

David Cameron wants to celebrate World War I, but as Harry Patch, last British survivor of the trenches who died three years ago, put it, the first world war was "nothing better than legalised mass murder".

The CIA drone campaign kills innocent civilians and terrorises communities and the UK government is allowing companies based in the UK to profit from the US’ deadly activities.

The British government may be complicit in unlawful drone bombings, which in Pakistan alone since 2004 have killed up to an estimated 3,337 people, among them hundreds of civilians.

William Hague takes time out from waging a lost war in Afghanistan and calling for more foreign intervenion in Syria to say we should be relaxed about the horrors of the British Empire.

Who will be watching the drone operaters as they watch us? Who will be responsible for monitoring this huge extension of the surviellance state and vilation of our civil rights?

The Bahraini kingdom is an integral part of the Sunni Arab Gulf dictatorships that are central to safeguarding British and American imperialist interests in the region.

Close to 200 Critical Mass cyclists were arrested protesting over the elite Olympics lanes, to be used only by VIPs moving effortlessly between Park Lane hotels and the games venues.