Mali, Algeria, Libya: the real reason Britain signed up for war on Africa

Mali, Algeria, Libya: the real reason Britain signed up for war on Africa

The truth behind the 'war on terror' is that it is part of Western powers' imperialistic quest to secure natural resource reserves for their corporations.

We didn't stop the Iraq war ten years ago. But we transformed British politics

We didn't stop the Iraq war ten years ago. But we transformed British politics

The 2 million of us who marched against the Iraq invasion 10 years ago created a force that is still shaping politics and society.

Did millions protesting against the Iraq war on 15 February 2003 achieve anything?

Did millions protesting against the Iraq war on 15 February 2003 achieve anything?

Not only did the march have the traditional left but also, for example, there was the Muslim community, sections of the Jewish community, Liberal Democrats, even some Tories.

Obama the 'drone president' says he has legal right to murder anyone anywhere at will

Obama the 'drone president' says he has legal right to murder anyone anywhere at will

The Obama administration wants the right to kill anyone (even a US citizen) anywhere (whether on or off the battlefield) anytime it deems it appropriate to do so.

Why I will not fight for Queen and country by ex-SAS soldier

Why I will not fight for Queen and country by ex-SAS soldier

The idea of fighting for Queen and Country is held tight by those who never have and never will actually fight, says former SAS soldier Ben Griffin.

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Bringing democracy to Muslim countries, grinning at the camera, US soldiers take trophy pictures of Afghans they have killed in acts of pre-meditated murder.
Between now the next general election, the government will spend £20 billion on the futile Afghanistan war and £10 billion on maintaining the militarily pointless Trident missile system.
After US attack kills 64 civilians, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan claims Afghan parents are burning their own children to make the US look bad.
The US counter-insurgency stategy of "winning hearts and minds" in Afghanistan seems to include turning whole towns into dust.

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.

Why US attack on Fallujah in November 2004 has resulted in higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations, than those recorded among survivors of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Israeli government plans to introduce a new law criminalising any Israeli supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which has gathered speed since the Gaza flotilla slaughter.
It's like the Gaza invasion, the endless expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the slaughter on the Gaza aid flotilla never happened. However much Israel breaks international law and commits the most barbarous war crimes, it can rely on the "extraordinary friendship" of Barack Obama.
Congratulations to the EDO decommissioners who, instead of facing jail sentences, have been found not guilty of sabataging a factory supplying arms to Israel, the jury accepting their justification that they were preventing war crimes in Gaza.
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.

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