The US and UK fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and they have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us.

The Obama administration has declared that nobody in the US government will pay any price for the systematic worldwide torture regime implemented and maintained for close to a decade.

Bombings, assassinations, sabotage, drone attacks committed by the West do not qualify as terrorism as the term applies only to terrorism against us, not the terrorism we carry out against them.

Who will be watching the drone operaters as they watch us? Who will be responsible for monitoring this huge extension of the surviellance state and vilation of our civil rights?

The pervasiveness and perversity of America's global military madness could produce severe "blowback" from any one of the 120 countries where US special forces now operate.

Obama should make a public declaration against military action by Israel before this possible event, not afterwards. We need a pre-emptive declaration before any pre-emptive war.

Instead of a check to the corruption of political power, the rule of law is merely another weapon used to legitimize crimes by the powerful and crush those who oppose them.

Morality and leadership are indivisible,says Archbishop Tutu. In this context, it would be inappropriate and untenable for him to share a platform with Tony Blair.

The Bahraini kingdom is an integral part of the Sunni Arab Gulf dictatorships that are central to safeguarding British and American imperialist interests in the region.

Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind.