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On 16 March 16 2003, 23-year-old American student Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer as she was trying peacefully to stop it demolishing a Paletinian home.
The current surge against the Taliban is a last throw of the US dice, says Seumas Milne, and so far the signs are it isn't working. 
For the British establishment Muslims are contemptible creatures, devalued humans. Do they expect me to turn the other cheek? asks Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. 
"My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of [fill in name of soldier killed]," said [fill in name of warmongering politician].
Gordon Brown was the paymaster for the Iraq War, to the tune of $8.5bn. He bears the same responsibility as Tony Blair for a war that cost £8.5 billion. 
"As president, I will provide $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade." On the evidence of these videos, pigs will fly before Obama brings peace to the Middle East. 
Attempts to drive British Muslims out of normal political activity, and the refusal to confront anti-Muslim hatred, can only ratchet up the danger and threaten us all, writes Seumas Milne.
Another missile attack kills dozens of civilians but insists US commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, "We are here to protect the Afghan people. 
The Obama administration, like the Bush White House before it, is seeking to beautify its military endeavors through facelifts and marketing appeals. Will it work? 
State-sponsored terrorism is fine when it's Israel. Consider the response if Iranian killers had had used forged or stolen passports of citizens of four European states, including Britain, to carry out an assassination. 
Human rights lawyers Phil Shiner and Clive Stafford-Smith say torture and abuse by UK soldiers and security services is comparable to what the US has done in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base, and government service have colluded at the highest level. 
Two million marched on 15 February 2003 against the Iraq war. The war went ahead and a million people were slaughtered. Did it achieve anything 
Johann Hari: Obama promised to shut down Bush's network of kidnappings and secret prisons. But he is in fact maintaining and expanding them. 
If we are to avoid a replay of the Iraq catastrophe, pressure to prevent war with Iran will have to start now. 
Selection of videos, pictures and poems by Stop the War supporters recording the spirit and purpose of the protest when Blair gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. 
Did the army drop the charge of desertion against L/Cpl Joe Glenton because it feared the legality of the Afghan war being examined at his court martial? 
Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes to steal the land for illegal settlements, writes Robert Fisk.