It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket home

Today the US military is involved in scores of countries across all five continents, and its global military facilities make it the world's largest landlord.

Human rights groups like Amnesty International should target war and militarism itself, rather than just some of its symptoms, and should oppose escalation of war on Syria.

In 2001, the US Congress passed a law for the so-called "war on terror" that allows the US government to wage war at anytime, any place and on anyone deemed a threat to national security.

I do sometimes worry that I am going to die in here. I hope I don’t, but if the worst comes to the worst, I want my kids to know that I stood up for a principle: Shaker Aamer, Britain's last inmate in US prison camp.

The drones are a self-generating terror machine that will grow and expand, meanwhile creating new potential targets as they sweep much of the world.

The lawyer who drafted the White House drone policy says the United States would rather kill suspects than send them to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Jeremy Scahill's new book and film, Dirty Wars, exposes covert US assassination squads, torture chambers and drone strikes that wipe out insurgents and children alike.

The alleged attackers all emphatically say the same thing: that they were motivated by the continuous, horrific violence brought by the US and its allies to the Muslim world.

The scale of torture, kidnapping and detention without trial unleashed by the US government after 9/11 is indisputable, backed and emulated at every stage by its closest allies.

A single individual, President Barack Obama, is choosing to send missiles into particular houses and buildings, and most of the people being killed are innocent.

Flying, lethal robots piloted thousands of miles away at US Air Force bases in Nevada and New Mexico, is how America will continue its war in Afghanistan after 2014.

On April 25, George W. Bush will bask in the fawning media sunlight of his presidential library and museum, and President Obama will be at the dedication to add his approval.

Were Shaker Aamer to return, he would almost certainly become a key witness in the police investigation into allegations of British complicity in torture in the post 9/11 era.

Every news report about the children killed and injured in Boston, every account of the horrific loss of limbs, makes Norman Solomon think of a little girl named Guljumma.