UK personnel controlled armed drones in Libya last year – despite the repeated government insistence that the UK has only ever operated armed drones in Afghanistan.

Watch this short film and see why Wikileaks founder Julian Assange -- facing an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest -- which is usually only used for dictators and terrorists -- has resisted extradition to Sweden and is seeking political asylum in Ecuador.

We send our lower classes off to do the killing, and the rest of us who don't have a loved one over there don't spend a single minute of any given day thinking about the carnage.

"Special forces advisers working alongside rebel commanders, with air support on call, "could be tactically and strategically decisive, as it proved in Afghanistan and Libya."

Tony Blair said the Iraq war was a "blood price" worth paying. But it's not a price he has paid - it's been paid in the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians.

As Tony Blair grins and parades himself once again, his cheerleaders want us to forget the illegal invasion of Iraq as he tries to worm his way back into mainstream British politics.

Historians will denounce Obama's shameful assassinations without trial, and his frightening drones murdering in some of the most poverty-stricken populations on earth.

Is this the same man who said "I abhor racism and oppression or cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass without being absolutely clear and emphatic with regard to what my position is"?

Day after day, tens of thousands of people live in the shadow of terror. Will there be an attack today? Will our children get to school okay? How many olive trees were damaged overnight?

According to the New York Times, the Obama administration hopes that support for the Syrian opposition from the United States, Arab governments and Turkey will tip the balance.