Video: Paul Flynn MP speaks on the lies about Afghanistan told by the UK government, and urges people to join him and others at Stop the War Coalition's Naming the Dead protest on 7 October.

The British government may be complicit in unlawful drone bombings, which in Pakistan alone since 2004 have killed up to an estimated 3,337 people, among them hundreds of civilians.

I remember cuing up a US Predator strike before deciding the computer screen wasn't depicting a Taliban insurgent burying an improvised explosive device in the road; rather, a child playing in the dirt.

Opposing Islamophobia is about opposing knee-jerk discrimination and xenophobia, dressed up as concern for "rights" using vulgar stereotypes and crude generalizations.

This week another British soldier is likely to die. His death will be greeted with heroic rhetoric, implying that his sacrifice is keeping this country safe. That will be a lie.

David Cameron has never mentioned the name of a single Afghan killed, the majority of whom have been ordinary civilians caught in the middle of the West's war on one of the world's poorest countries.

History, the analysts say, demonstrates that airstrikes and military threats often result in unbending resolve among the beleaguered to do whatever it takes to acquire nuclear arms.

A disturbing pattern of gross infringements on basic civil liberties, put in place in the name of national security, has poisoned the US legal system, under which fair trials are unlikely.

Assange's prime fear of extradition should be redressed by negotiations between Ecuador, Sweden and the UK to assure that he can go to Sweden while having his rights protected.

The "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers and police show American soldiers how much Afghans hate them and symbolise all that is wrong with their mission in Afghanistan.