The pretence that the RAF is merely "protecting the civilian population" by its bombing of Libya is defied each night as it roams Tripoli with a list of Gaddafi family residences and hideaways to attack.

Overthrow a parliamentary government, install a dictatorship, invade a country and kill 20,000 people, invade Iraq and kill hundreds of thousands of people—that's called bringing stability, says Noam Chomsky.

General Sir David Richards, head of the British army want to extend the war on Libya with the destruction of its infrastructure. We know from Iraq and Gaza what that will mean for the Libyan people.

As the economic crisis drags on, and as Britain, France and Italy lead the third military assault on a Muslim country in ten years, the poison of Islamophobia is in danger of spreading.

This year's protests on Naqba day -- in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere -- were inspired by the Arab revolutions that have swept the region, and predictably been met by the usual brutality of the Israeli armed forces, with dozens of protesters killed or wounded.

Previously secret evidence to the Iraq inquiry confirms what was clear at the time: Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell concocted a pack of lies to take Britain into an illegal war.

The paltry troop withdrawal the US will make in July 2011 is an Orwellian attempt to appear to drawdown the war without actually ending it, writes David Swanson.

Europe and America's military intervention in Libya's civil strife – supposedly for humanitarian reasons – has created its own humanitarian crisis.

I would rather go to prison than take off the face veil, says Kenza Drider. Are they going to put a woman in prison because of a scrap of material? It's ridiculous.

Tony Blair’s “deal in the desert” with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2003 opened the way for the deals that really mattered – British contracts in oil, construction and arms.