Somalia is the latest country subjected to illegal US drone attacks, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Iraq. Add in the 'war on terror' and that makes seven wars totted up by the US peace prize winning president.

The only reason we're given for being in Afghanistan is that we must keep the al-Qaida terrorists' network from establishing bases there. But -- like bin Laden -- al-Qaida left Afghanistan years ago.

At Glastonbury 2011, Jimmy Cliff changed the title of his 1960s hit Vietnam to Afghanistan and sang his uncompromising anti-war message to a television audience of millions. A must-watch video.

The same people who tell us that the country can’t afford to pay pensions or provide public services are happy to spend billions of pounds a year on bombing Afghanistan, says Lindsey German.

The British government, which preaches democracy and freedom to the extent of going to war to uphold those values, has resorted to denying freedom to someone on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations and media hype.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan have been "won", nor will they ever be, but here are western powers again seizing control of an Arab country by main force with no clue as to how it should be governed.

Remembering iraqi "babies ripped from incubators" and the Gulf of Tonkin attack that never happened in Vietnam, were the media sceptical about claims that Gadaffi issued troops with viagra and told them to use rape as a terror weapon? Not a hope.

A staggering $20 billion dollars a year is what the US military is spending on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: enough to give every man, woman and child in those countries $333 each.

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Gadaffi. His regime is undoubtedly very nasty, says Lindsey German, but he has a long way to go before his crimes can match those of Blair and Bush.

Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple", winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, activist for civil rights, on why she is sailing with the freedom flotilla to Gaza. "It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off without delay."