So Happy Xmas, and may the God of peace and justice keep you safe from the elite militarists who are already scheming their way towards new disasters.

This compensation leaves a sour taste: it is certainly not justice done, the full truth of what happened is yet to emerge, and those responsible have not been held to account.

Human rights groups say that the abuse was systemic, and carried out by military interrogators and guards in accordance with both their training in the UK and orders issued in Iraq.

I sort of agree with the NRA when they say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people," except I would just modify that a bit and say, "Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people."

As Britain alongside the US and Nato plans new interventions in Syria and Iran, the only "success" coming out of the failure of the war in Afghanistan would seem to be yet more war.

Arguably the greatest collection of military power in history has been ground down by ordinary people with no planes, no armour, no drones and no illusions about why Afghanistan was invaded.

Not only will more intervention by the western powers increase the death toll, it may not give them the control they crave either.

For the children continuously killed in the Muslim world huge numbers of people, particularly in the countries responsible, remain completely untouched by the grief that is caused.

American policy and actions in the Arab world, has resulted in the deaths (i.e. murder) of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent children.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation aims to block the US government from ever again being able to attack and suffocate an independent journalistic enterprise the way it did with WikiLeaks.