The succession of horrors across the past decade, says Noam Chomsky, leads to the question: Was there an alternative to the West’s response to the 9/11 attacks?

Any way you look at it, the ten years of the 'war on terror' have been an unmitigated disaster for America and it's allies, but their conclusion is too late to stop now.

Direct government spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far amounts to roughly $2 trillion – $17,000 for every US household – with bills yet to be received increasing this amount by more than 50%.

This video, with a commentary extracted from A People's History of the American Empire, by the late and very much missed Howard Zinn, explains the reasons for America's endless war against the world, and raises the key question of our time: Empire or Humanity?

Fighting three wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, encircling China and Russia, refusing to negotiate a space weapons ban, NATO is determined to control the world’s oil and other scarce resources by brute force.

We mark the ten-year anniversary of one day, one day that has led to anguish for families of troops and who-knows-how-many dead, wounded, or maimed civilians, including children, in the countries we’ve destroyed. For empire and oil.

George W Bush's vice-president Dick Cheney is right to be fearful that he cannot travel anywhere without an attempt to arrest him for violating numerous international laws.

America goes into Iraq and Afghanistan, turns them upside down, then says it would be irresponsible to leave them topsy-turvy, but as long as America stays there, these countries will remain messed up.

Replacing old fashioned, conventional warfare with high-tech, stealthy drones, and death squads capable of inflicting death and destruction anywhere in the world, is becoming the hallmark of the "peace" president's foreign policy

Unaccountable US special forces are already active in more than half the world's countries, and set to dominate the next stage of America's war on the world.

The US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have been a dismal failure – thousands of lives lost, trillions of dollars squandered, western troops in Muslim lands provoking more terrorism than it has prevented.

Without the knowledge of the American public, the US is waging a secret war of assassinations, targeted killings, kidnaps, kick-down-the-door night raids and joint operations with foreign forces.

Why did the United States use these barbarous weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender?

As US foreign policy threatens to lurch into yet more disasters in Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and Libya, we can only hope that more whistleblowers will follow the example of Bradley Manning.

Somalia is the latest country subjected to illegal US drone attacks, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Iraq. Add in the 'war on terror' and that makes seven wars totted up by the US peace prize winning president.

Dave Crouch says a new book War is a Lie by David Swanson is a powerful and lively polemic, bursting with useful facts, insights and arguments, that will be a useful tool for activists seeking to combat the war lies over Libya and Afghanistan.