Mali, Algeria, Libya: the real reason Britain signed up for war on Africa

Mali, Algeria, Libya: the real reason Britain signed up for war on Africa

The truth behind the 'war on terror' is that it is part of Western powers' imperialistic quest to secure natural resource reserves for their corporations.

We didn't stop the Iraq war ten years ago. But we transformed British politics

We didn't stop the Iraq war ten years ago. But we transformed British politics

The 2 million of us who marched against the Iraq invasion 10 years ago created a force that is still shaping politics and society.

Did millions protesting against the Iraq war on 15 February 2003 achieve anything?

Did millions protesting against the Iraq war on 15 February 2003 achieve anything?

Not only did the march have the traditional left but also, for example, there was the Muslim community, sections of the Jewish community, Liberal Democrats, even some Tories.

Obama the 'drone president' says he has legal right to murder anyone anywhere at will

Obama the 'drone president' says he has legal right to murder anyone anywhere at will

The Obama administration wants the right to kill anyone (even a US citizen) anywhere (whether on or off the battlefield) anytime it deems it appropriate to do so.

Why I will not fight for Queen and country by ex-SAS soldier

Why I will not fight for Queen and country by ex-SAS soldier

The idea of fighting for Queen and Country is held tight by those who never have and never will actually fight, says former SAS soldier Ben Griffin.

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The supposed targets of US drone attacks pose no clear and imminent threat to the United States and have neither the capacity nor the will to harm Americans other than those hunting them.

In 2012, the British army killed a number of children and injured more in a war which is lost and serves no other purpose than to protect the reputations of those waging it.

As David Cameron pushes for escalating western intervention in Syria even some Conservative MPs are voicing concerns that Britain is being dragged into yet another war.

The actions of one principled young US soldier, Bradley Manning, have embarrassed and enraged the most powerful nation on earth.

The furies of civil war grow ever fiercer and the war has long ago reached the stage of what in Northern Ireland we used to call "the politics of the last atrocity".

The US military-industrial complex is as corrupt and rotten as any institution of America's broken democracy, says Mark Weisbrot, and more deadly than most in its consequences.

Israel is the largest recipient of US taxpayer-funded military aid and these weapons are used by Israel to commit systematic human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Furious tribesmen tried to take bodies to the gates of the presidential residence, forcing the government into the rare position of withdrawing its claim that militants had been killed.

The Iraq Inquiry will not report before Autumn 2013, two years behind schedule, because the government won't release papers showing Tony Blair's Iraq war pact with George W Bush.

British university UCL says ISRS the think tank of arms dealars and warmongers, launched by Tony Blair in October 2012, is an "attractive addition... to pragmatic learning".

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