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Conscientious objector Joe Glenton on being jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan

When Joe Glenton became the first British soldier to publicly refuse to go to Afghanistan as a conscientious objector, his superior officer called him 'a coward, a malingerer'.

Disregarding its own bloody colonial history, Britain still pontificates on Syria and Iran

With its record of criminality and crimes against humanity, Britain has no right to pontificate and brow beat Syria, Iran or any other nation about "international obligations".

Protesters march on RAF base calling for UK's drones to be banned

Report and videos of the first national demonstration against UK drones, on 27 April 2013, when hundreds marched on Britain's drones base at RAF Waddington.

Truth out: UK has flown thousands of drone missions in Afghanistan using 'borrowed' US planes

The government admits that on top of hundreds of missions using the UK's own drones in Afghanistan, the RAF has carried out more than 2,000 missions using ‘borrowed’ US armed drones.

Drones on the doorstep: the planes zooming overhead and bombs we drop in distant countries

Now that footage of "surgical strikes" can be watched on every home computer, it is harder to isolate ourselves from the inhuman and relentless warfare carried out in our name.

Remote-controlled mass murder begins at Britain's first drones base

Drones, controlled far away from conflict zones, ease politicians' decisions to launch military strikes and order extra-judicial assassinations, without democratic oversight.

John Pilger: Dance on Thatcher's grave, but her funeral was a propaganda stunt fit for a dictator

Perhaps it is too easy to dance on her grave. Her funeral was a propaganda stunt, fit for a dictator: an absurd show of militarism, as if a coup had taken place.

Margaret Thatcher: The iron lady's not for mourning: rust in peace

The essential library on why Thatcher's policies that destroyed communities at home and waged war abroad are not for mourning but to be remembered so they are not repeated.

Guess who is not coming to Margaret Thatcher's funeral

The importance of Margaret Thatcher's warmongering is reflected in the Falklands theme of her funeral arrangements -- something Tony Blair does not seem to regard as "tasteless".

Why would anyone celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher? Ask her victims

Let's respect those who mourn everyday because of Thatcher's policies, then wipe away the tears, and organize to make sure that the history she authored does not repeat.

George Galloway: Behind the hagiography who was Margaret Thatcher and what did she really do?

Every controversial divisive deadly thing that Thatcher did is being placed in soft focus, bathed in a rose-coloured light - a first draft of history that is simply wrong.

Don't speak ill of the dead -- unless it's Margaret Thatcher. There's nothing wrong with loathing her.

There is nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die.

Margaret Thatcher's true legacy was the war criminal Tony Blair

Tony Blair matched her zeal for neoliberal policies and privatisation with a propensity for war -- in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond -- which Margaret Thatcher can only have envied.

Nevermind Iran - it's here in the UK we need regime change

If we have learned anything from the crimes committed in Iraq, it is that we must question at all costs the constant assertion that Iran as a sovereign country poses a threat to us.

The BBC and war propaganda: learning nothing from the Iraq lies

The BBC continues to exclude anti-war voices from Iraq retrospectives because they might embarrass its reporters still in positions of authority about their work ten years ago.

David Miliband's new job: from parliament to CIA glove puppet?

Who will David Miliband really be working for in the United States? Among his "overseers" are Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.