Britain is one of the world's biggest arms traders, with a long history of arming the most oppressive regimes, like Libya, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, who we can assume used UK arms in putting down Arab Spring rebellions.

Despite the connection between economic hardship and the settlements, Israeli protesters have been careful not to connect their struggle with Palestinian solidarity or an end to occupation.

If this is how the rebels behave today, when it is much in their interests to make a show of unity, how will they act once they are installed in power in Tripoli? But NATO's sole policy is to do just that.

With 85 civilians killed in the latest NATO air attack, most of them women and children, NATO cannot hide any longer that it has turned its UN mandate to "protect civilians" into a war of terror bombing that is killing them.

On 3 August 2011, supporters of Royal Navy medic Michael Lyons gathered in solidarity outside the military prison in Colchester where he is serving a seven months' sentence for refusing to undertake rifle training before being deployed to Afghanistan.

We will no doubt see more children shot and killed by occupiers and their colonial proxies in the months and years to come, with more villages and neighborhoods invaded in the dead of night by armed men creeping up on their houses.

Our politicians and generals must be forced to face reality, says Lindsey German, by the anti-war majority in this country demanding the troops come home, in protests which are impossible to ignore. 

Who is going to start attacking the UK any time soon? Iceland, France, Germany? Russia? Peter Preston says, "Give me one believable scenario that makes sense."

Without the knowledge of the American public, the US is waging a secret war of assassinations, targeted killings, kidnaps, kick-down-the-door night raids and joint operations with foreign forces.

Why did the United States use these barbarous weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender?