The cost to the UK taxpayer of bombing Gaddafi for six months is the same as the savings from ending the education maintenance allowance; or three times the amount saved by scrapping the disability living allowance.

When it comes to how many wars Americans can fight at once, Obama is reaching for the record books. The United States is now involved in no less than six wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and what used to be called the Global War on Terror. 

Brian Haw, world renowned peace activist, has died. His peace camp outside the British parliament was a beacon for anti-war campaigners across the world throughout the ten years of the "war on terror".
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Sanum Ghafour lifts the lid on how the language of war uses clean words to cover up atrocious deeds.

"If I had a pound for every time Tony Blair used the term 'regime change'", she says, "I could probably afford to buy a weapon of mass destruction."

The regime change war Obama is waging in Libya is illegal under the American constitution because he hasn't got approval from the US Congress. No problem: he's rebranded it as "not really a war".

Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution. We must not turn away from suffering in Gaza. We must continue trying to connect with Gazans living under siege.

Britain's borders and British people have not been under serious threat for a generation. Yet time and again our glory-hungry politicians crave battle. Why?

Children are dying from malnutrition, diarrhoea, TB, meningitis, leishmaniasis, liver disease, pneumonia, anaemia and congenital heart disease, all of which are easily preventable outside of Iraq.

Contrary to false denials, the U.S., under the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been bombing Yemen for the last two years, including one attack using cluster bombs that killed dozens of civilians.

Doctors, drenched in their patients' blood, desperately trying to staunch the bullet wounds of pro-democracy demonstrators shot in cold blood by Bahraini soldiers and police, are now on trial.