This architecturally crass pavilion is like the nervously loud voice of someone trying to shout down opposition, forgetting the thousands of victims of the carpet bombing of German cities.

The terror bombing of Germany involved the deliberate targeting of civilians and destruction of their homes, with a total disregard for human life that is quite breathtaking.

Probably the only useful thing outside powers can do, would be to engage in serious new diplomacy, in which supporters of both the regime and the armed opposition participate.

This vain, hollow and dangerous man, who left office in virtual disgrace, is now planning his political comeback, even contemplating being prime minister again.

The prospect for Palestinian children arrested by Israel: blindfolds, painful plastic wrist ties, physical and/or verbal abuse, solitary confinement, denied their right to silence.

After Afghanistan and Iraq 'humanitarian' wars might have run into the sand had the Arab Spring not opened up new possibilities for the West to 'intervene'.

The decision by the US and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility marked a dangerous turning point in the militarization of the Internet.

Predictably, the usual European warmongering poodles of the William Hague kind have already stepped in, blaming Syria because Turkey violated Syrian airspace.

As the Olympic torch bearers approach London there is a military shadow lurking in the background that runs counter to the spirit of both the ancient and modern games.

The most obviously false delusion is that the US is sternly opposed to repressive regimes and seeks to defend human rights and democratic freedoms in the Middle East and round the world.