Those who push the buttons to fire the missiles call these strikes "bug-splats": bereaved relatives are forced to gather their loved ones' dismembered body parts in the aftermath.

The 'war on terror' failed on its own terms, spawning terrorists across the world, while its campaign of killings, torture and kidnapping discredited Western claims to be guardians of human rights.

Oldfield's jailing comes as part of long series of heavy sentences for UK protesters, which are clearly intended to deter anyone thinking of exercise their democratic right to protest.

Do you think the Pakistani mother whose child is killed by an American drone cares whether the attack occurred under a Democratic or Republican president?

In the US, most people don't even know that their own military just blew away three young Afghan children. The sad truth is, even if they did know, they wouldn't really care.

David Cameron wants to celebrate World War I, but as Harry Patch, last British survivor of the trenches who died three years ago, put it, the first world war was "nothing better than legalised mass murder".

Obama continued George W Bush's "war on terror" under a different name -- extending Bush's wars to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere while greatly expanding the war in Afghanistan.

Gillard sends ever more young Australians to die in faraway places -- essentially as American mercenaries -- and more have died under her watch than under any recent prime minister.

We must cut through the noise and expose those who try to use Malala's suffering to rehabilitate a murderous occupation and a cruel and illegal drone war.

Osborne is said to have asked how the British deployment can be justified to the public for the next two years, amid continuing casualties and doubts about the corrupt Afghan government.