What we say

"We call on writers, actors, musicians, teachers and campaigners to join with us to ensure that this anniversary is used to promote peace and international co-operation."

What David Cameron says

"I want a commemoration that captures our national spirit ... that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrated this year, says something about who we are as a people."

Open letter from Jude Law, Ken Loach, Antony Gormley, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Brian Eno and many more writers, actors, artists, musicians. Read here and add your name....

Are we going to flatten yet another nation that hasn't attacked us solely on the basis of lies reminiscent of what we were told about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction?

America's belief in itself as the "greatest superpower the world has ever seen" is a self-delusion that leads Washington and London to claim the right to drop bombs on anyone they find "unacceptable".

A damaging misinterpretation of events a decade ago is that the tremendous demonstrations in Britain and around the world against a war on Iraq made no impact.

President Obama and his advisors are the “deniers” of incredible Israeli violence and horrific violations of international law against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The attitude of the US and its allies towards Iran and its nuclear programme would seem almost designed to push that country towards the nuclear weapons option.

Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace. In the Arab world, Israel and the U.S. are regarded as the pre-eminent threat.

Israel wants to attack Iran because it claims Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map. Exactly who is trying to wipe whom off the map? You decide.

Encouraging the willful, foreign creation of a humanitarian crisis upon a nation of 74 million human beings as collective punishment is not only appalling, its prescription is criminal under international law.

The simple fact is that the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and his top generals and cabinet officers, are committing a war crime every time they threaten Iran with attack.

If you're trying to figure out why you can't remember hearing anything about Maya Evans, that's because, as far as most of the media is concerned, there is no story.

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