George W Bush brags in his book about the use of torture when he was president. Under international law this should put him behind bars. Don't hold your breath.

On the wars in Iraq and Afghanist, Guantanamo, torture and illegal interrogation, Obama turned out to be little different from his predecessor George Bush.

The US continues to torture people, even though it is ineffective, illegal and immoral. The key task now is to end America's use of torture and to see and treat every other person as a human being, all part of one human family.

Elements of the UK's armed forces are using torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. It's not a subject that a democracy can afford to ignore.

The longest and second most expensive wars in US history dropped off the radar. Was there ever such an ugly, dim-witted, childish American election?

US weekly spending in Iraq and Afghanistan now comes to more than $3 billion every week. No wonder Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes say their $3 trillion war cost projection needs to be 25 percent higher.

As the longest war enters its tenth year, antiwar voters need to make sure President Obama gets the message: if the wars continue, you will not get the peace vote and no peace activists will work for you in the elections.

Losing a war that the majority of Americans think is unwinnable, Obama pulls out the old Bush and Blair standby: an unsubstantiated terror alert.

The Canadian government wants to send war resisters who refused to fight in Iraq back to the USA, despite most Canadians saying they should stay. A campaign is under way to get residence status for the war resisters.

Widespread surveillance and FBI arrests show US peace activists are all in danger of being spied on and added to terrorist watch lists for doing nothing more than attending a rally, signing a petition or holding a sign.

Obama is selling $60 billion of arms to Saudi Arabia -- beacon of "democracy" and "civil rights" -- another step towards more war in the region, this time with Iran.

22-year-old Private Bradley Manninghas is facing decades in prison for leaking secret US military video and files that show the reality of nine years war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Aafia Siddiqui was branded number one woman terrorist by the US administration. Incarcerated, tortured and abused for 5 years, she has never been tried for any terrorist offenses.

Democracy Now hosts a discussion about the "game changing" impact of the 91,000 secret US military files published by Wikileaks.

Bin Laden, the Taliban: Britain has long history of colluding with militant Islamists to control oil resources and overthrow nationalist governments, says Mark Curtis.

Most Americans are opposed to these wars and to the billions of dollars spent on them. That their brainwashing so often fails is America’s greatest virtue, says John Pilger.