The EU is not seeking to realize Nobel's demilitarized global peace order, and condones security based on military force and waging wars rather than insisting on an alternative approach.

After five years of sitting on the fence, the NUS has for the first time sided with peace and justice by voting to condemn and call for an immediate end to the siege on Gaza.

The condition the UK government wants to impose would guarantee the continued impunity and immunity Israelenjoys: the trauma for Palestinians would would be repeated every few years.

Just as with Iraq, the western media blindly trumpets whatever is shoveled to them about Iran, keeping fear levels sky-high to justify crippling sanctions and preparing the ground for war.

Bradley Manning's abusive pre-trial treatment is a clear violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the US Constitution, the UN Convention Against Torture, and US military law.

If governments succeed in shaping or silencing different points of view by training missiles and bullets on journalists the battle for the truth will disappear into the fog of war.

This will be the last Christmas for some British soldiers and the blood of those killed will be on the hands of David Cameron and the government waging a war they know to be futile and lost.

The killing of entire families and the destruction of government buildings and police stations, far from encouraging Palestinians to submit, will only fortify their resistance.

In line with its unprecedented persecution of whistleblowers generally, the US government is exploiting the law to entrench its own power and shield its actions from scrutiny.

David Lawley-Wakelin is joined by Nobel Peace Prize winners Mairead Maguire and Archbishop Tutu in demanding that Tony Blair is held to account for the lies he told deceiving us into the Iraq war.