What makes this case particularly horrific is that the suffering Dr. Hamoodi sought to alleviate was caused by the same US government that is now imprisoning him for his humanitarianism.

As Obama and Netanyahu escalate their threats against Iran, the only way to rebuff and dismantle the war propaganda is to be aware of the truth on which it claims to comment.

The US military now characterizes WikiLeaks and Assange as an "enemy", the same designation it gives to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a crime carrying the death penalty.

US and Israeli forces have Iran surrounded, and are threatening war in violation of the UN Charter -- a threat to millions of human beings, a threat -- in other words -- of mass murder.

Alastair Campbell basks in the celebrity limelight, his war crimes expurged from the collective imagination, instead of demanding prosecution alongside those of Tony Blair.

For all his insistence at the UN on the role of diplomacy and dialogue, Obama is as wedded to the use of violence as his predecessors, but unlike Bush he is much better at concealing it.

Far too many of those who lied to parliament and people in order to take us in to an illegal and devestating war are still in positions of public power and responsibility.

If this report reminds us all what the US – with British support – is doing, maybe then there will be less surprise at the hatred the drone war is engendering in the Islamic world.

It is ten years since Tony Blair presented his "dodgy dossier" to parliament -- full of lies and fabricated 'evidence' of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, including Blair's own insistence that Iraq had the capacity to launch them within 45 minutes.

While the US government tells Americans that the huge cost of the country's militarism is "protecting" them from harm, the evidence is that it is making them more vulnerable and less safe.