The cure for fake "awareness" campaigns like Kony 2012 -- that help justify US military intervention in Africa for the next oil and resource war -- is the truth.

Obama has broken most of the pledges of his election campaign, so no wonder Bush's vice president Dick Cheney praises him for the way he's waging the "war on terror".

The killing has gone on unabated for ten years and is routinely ignored by the mainstream media, which choose instead to praise American soldiers for their heroism and sacrifice.

Is there a morally significant difference between the massacre of 16 civilians by a US Army sergeant and "collateral damage"? Ask Afghan civilians, says former US marine Ross Caputi.

You would think we had learned something after Afghanistan and Iraq, wars that have already killed over 1 million innocent people with a 90 per cent civilian to combatant death rate.

The US military was culpable of cruel and inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up alone for 23 hours a day over an 11-month period in conditions that constituted torture.

Wikileaks' "crime" has been an epic form of investigative journalism: revealing to millions of people the lies of their politicians and the barbarism of criminal war conducted in their name.

Those who kill people with car bombs are "terrorists"; those who kill far more people with cluster bombs are the noble occupants of a "quagmire".

America's belief in itself as the "greatest superpower the world has ever seen" is a self-delusion that leads Washington and London to claim the right to drop bombs on anyone they find "unacceptable".

Given that drones will become cheaper, smaller, faster, stealthier, more lethal, and more autonomous, it is harder to imagine what they won't do than what they will.

As the judge prepared to leave the room, someone stood up and shouted: "Your honor! Isn't it a soldier's responsibility to report war crimes?" The judge silently looked away.

Having cemented its first full sponsorship of a major film, X-Men: First Class, by integrating the movie into recruitment ads, the Pentagon is now fully financing its own Hollywood movie.

First came professional war, then privatized war, then mercenary and outsourced war -- all of which made war ever more remote from most Americans. Finally, came remote war itself.

The principles of imperial domination remain, but the capacity for the United States to implement them has markedly declined as power has become more broadly distributed in a diversifying world.

Aamer is described by all who know him as principled and fiercely resistant to every aspect of the unlawful Guantánamo regime, and this singled him out for what has become indefinite detention by his US captors.

Since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed including more than 60 children. Rescuers and funeral attendees of the victims are now regularly targeted