NATO's purpose, costs and operation must be challenged: it has gorged itself on resources that could have been so much better deployed on health and poverty-elimination programmes.

NATO's recent history shows that whatever its changing rationale, or the nature of its supposed enemies, its core function has remained to advance US global interests and foreign policy goals.

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. 

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.

I will join the rally outside the US embassy on Saturday 19 May because I think protest is essential in the current campaign to alert the public to Nato's threat to world peace and disastrous policies of war and intervention in the Middle East.

An end to foreign wars would be a much more effective counter-terror strategy than this hyped, synthetic threat to justify a corporate surveillance-and-security product gold rush.

Speaking on national live TV in 1998, the Beastie Boys Adam Yauch, who has died aged 47, spoke prophetically about the consequences of America's wars on Muslim countries and Islamophobia.

We’ve all been trained that the phrase "collateral damage" cleanses and justifies this and washes it all way: yes, it’s quite terrible, but innocent people die in wars; that’s just how it is.

However much they may pretend there are stark differences in policy over national security and world affairs, there is no Democratic or Republican party, there is only a single war party.

Since the end of the cold war NATO has become much more aggressive and its policies are increasingly influenced by the the thirst for profit of huge weapons-manufacturing firms.

How to explain the type of acts that have made the USA infamous over the years which most Americans -- as well as most Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians etc -- would not commit.

While Obama uses his drone-strike killing spree as a sign of his toughness in this year's election campaign, people across the US and around the world are organizing to rein in the drones.

The ghost of Osama bin Laden tells President Obama, “No one has furthered al-Qaeda's basic mission of weakening the US more than the rulers of America themselves: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and you.”