US troops are on their way to Uganda. More go soon to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. John Pilger tells the real story behind Obama's latest extension of the 'war on terror'.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama now sends out a missile-equipped drone an average of once every four days, while his predecessor, George W. Bush, did so only once every 47 days.

Obama's decision to send troops to Uganda may seem bizarre until you recall that in 2009 a US oil company announced it had discovered there possibly the largest ever oil field in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Iran doesn’t want war with the US. But how far will the US go in its response to the Iran "plot", led as it is by a weak president entirely committed to using the "war on terror" to buttress his bid for reelection.

If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth. So that is our task. Get the truth. Get the ball. Give it to Wikileaks, says Julian Assange. And we'll spread it all over the world.

The U.S. killed Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki with help from long-time close friend, President Saleh of Yemen, who took a little time off from murdering his own citizens to help Obama murder one of his own.

The US is abolishing the most basic services for the nation's neediest, but still has $100 million to spend on a sprawling new prison in Afghanistan for housing 2000 prisoners.

War without human guidance: Automated, unpiloted planes working on their own, no hand on any control, identifying and killing based on calculations made by software.

After 9/11, the decision to lash out violently, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, simply followed Osama bin Laden's playbook, turning the United States into al-Qaeda’s best ally.

So we've done 9/11, but don't hold your breath for the equivalent wall-to-wall coverage on the Afghan war, with poignant stories of parents, husbands and children who have been killed.

When historians reflect on the early decades of the 21st century Somalia, alongside Afghanistan and Iraq, will be seen as having paid a colossal price in human life as a result of the US war on terror.

Al-Qaeda has proved so elusive and difficult to eliminate because as a global organisation it is a fiction and has never existed in the form that governments and intelligence agencies pretend.

America has become dependent on the dead of 9/11 as an all-purpose explanation for our goodness and the horrors we’ve visited on others, for the many towers-worth of dead in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

The United States has been in Afghanistan for twice the length of World War II and failure has become "not an option". But, says Conservative MP Rory Stewart, it is inevitable.

U.S. policy decisions after 9/11 have turned what began as a traumatizing day into a traumatizing decade for the United States and the world.

There is nothing more dangerous, says Glenn Greenwald, than allowing power to be exercised without accountability: no oversight, no transparency, no consequences for serious wrongdoing.