Dave Crouch says a new book War is a Lie by David Swanson is a powerful and lively polemic, bursting with useful facts, insights and arguments, that will be a useful tool for activists seeking to combat the war lies over Libya and Afghanistan.

In our current era of permanent war, time to remember Muhammad Ali, who in June 1967, was convicted for refusing to be conscripted into the US Army, saying, "No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger".

US Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been in the forefront of the campaign to get the US Congress to end Obama's war in Libya. When George W Bush was president Kucinich tried to get him impeached for misleading Congress into the Iraq war.

When Arab public opinion has any influence on policy, the US and Britain have been tossed out of the Middle East. That's why they are terrified of democracies in the region.

Obama's troop withdrawals only mark a continuing war and occupation that is wasteful and deadly, with no end to America's 'war on terror' in sight.

George Osborne said it would cost tens, not hundreds of millions. Now the defence minister Liam Fox has had tell the truth. The war in Libya in just over two months has cost Britain £260 million.

Still occupying Iraq, engaged in the bombing of Libya, and continuing with the war in Afghanistan, the US and its allies look increasingly bogged down, unable to break the war habit -- and not knowing what to do about it.

Libya was going to be different from all previous wars. Strikes would be 'targeted', 'collateral damage' would be negligible, and of course, just as the British government said in 1914, the war would be so swift that it would all be over in a couple of months.

"It is time to listen to military advice, review the review and provide our forces with capabilities which match our foreign policy ambitions.” - Jim Murphy Shadow defence secretary

Karl Eikenberry, US ambassador in Afghanistan, says "America has never sought to occupy any nation in the world. We are a good people." Try telling that to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.