Mike Higgs describes how the arms industry is embedded in Britain's universities, with the help of Tony Blair and his acolytes, such as former UK defence minister John Reid.

Cameron has just returned from selling weapons to the Gulf States, in preparation for wars with Iran and/or Syria that may prove to be even bloodier and more catastrophic than their predecessors.

"There is nothing heroic about being blown up in a vehicle, there is nothing heroic about being shot in an ambush and there is nothing heroic about the deaths of countless civilians."

Gaza is the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror.

Obama and Romney agreed on sanctions against Iran which, they claimed, posed a nuclear threat to the Middle East, evoking the lies told about Iraq, as if that catastrophic war never happened.

The victims of the US-Nato war against Iran are unseen, dying anonymously in hospitals, not incinerated in spectacular explosions touched off by cruise missiles and bunker buster bombs.

Barack Obama gets his "mandate" for four more years of unconstitutional war, an expanding secret drone program, codification of indefinite detention, and widespread government secrecy.

Cameron says the despots ruling Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and other Gulf states need British arms "to defend themselves" -- and they do -- against their own people struggling for democratic rights.

The UK arms trade receives about £852m a year in subsidies, much of it going to BAE, a company with a track record of bribery, espionage and arms deals with oppressive regimes.

The west's intervention has caused a security vacuum and set in motion events that aren't good for Libya, for the United States or for the world.