If the US does not leave Iraq by the end of 2011, resistance leaders say they will escalate the military and peaceful opposition and turn Baghdad into a giant Tahrir Square.

Unite, Unison, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and the Scottish TUC have all called for halt to the air attacks on Libya.

A new Amnesty International report details the killings, injuries, torture and other ill-treatment of protesters who, inspired by the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and north Africa, have demonstrated in their tens of thousands across Iraq.

"They claim they are democratic, but we are paying for their democracy with our blood, our sons and daughters, our lives, our homes, our land, our future and our dreams."

Obama says the treatment of Bradley Manning is "appropriate and meets our basic standards". 250 legal experts say it "is not only shameful but unconstitutional".

Israel can't be both a Jewish and a democratic state and new Apartheid laws will not resolve the moral crisis that is at the core of Israeli politics.

John Pilger says that, unlike many of the British Empire's Victorian “civilisers”, today’s sedentary Westminster warriors have never been touched by the suffering and bloodshed which are the consequences of their utterances and actions.

This is not a story of a few rogue soldiers, says Malalai Joya. The brutal actions of these "kill teams" reveal the aggression and racism of the entire military occupation. While these photos are new, the murder of innocents is not.

They said Iraq and Afghanistan would be over in days. But a million died and a civilisation collapsed. We don't want to see the same in Libya, says Turkish prime minister Erdogan.

Eight years after shock-and-awe in Iraq and 10 years since Afghanistan, the west is in action against yet another Muslim state, incinerating soldiers and tanks and killing civilians in the process.