"I knew Mr Gaddafi for years. He just kept himself to himself, I had no idea he'd end up like this. I even had my photo taken with him after selling him dozens of tanks."

David Cameron says Britain is so much in debt that welfare benefits to the poorest and most vulnerable in society must be slashed to the bone, but there's still enough to wage foreign wars.

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel bombed Gaza? asks George Galloway in BBC interview. Watch here...

Western bombs are raining down on Libya. Even if you support this war, writes Owen Jones, it's important to be aware of the key arguments against.

Internet activism aims to change the world through mouse-clicks. The difference between the ease of the action and its consequences is vast, writes John Hilary.

Libya is not our country or our business, says Simon Jenkins. There is no good reason for us to intervene.

In 2007, Barack Obama said, "Whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy." Today he presides over Bradley Manning's torture.

In Afghanistan, children are bombed. They lie in pools of blood until family members realize, one by one, that their children are not late in returning home but in fact never will.

Iraqis have embarked on a new phase in their struggle for dignity and freedom, says Sami Ramadani, inspired by the uprisings of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain.

Facts were bled of their real significance. Only the most aware readers would have understood that the US had not been duped, but rather that the White House had exploited a "fantasist" -- or desperate exile from a brutal regime, depending on how one looks at it -- for its own illegal and immoral ends.