It is vital that we reject NATO for what it is, and the NO TO NATO protest at the US Embassy in London on 19 May is the place to do that, says ex-soldier Joe Glenton, jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan.

The government has allowed the London Olympics to be hijacked by a monster that is out of control, driven by paranoia, budgetary incontinence and corporate greed.

At the same time that the UK government admonishes regimes like Syria and Bahrain for cracking down on peaceful protests, it is attacking our own demomocratic rights.

Could this be the moment when Jack Straw's career of lies that helped take Britain into illegal wars puts him in the dock? Don't hold your breath.

The NUT, Britain's largest teachers' union, votes to oppose an attack on Iran and any western military intervention in the Arab region and confirms its support for Stop the War Coalition.

It says something about the comatose nature of British politics that an effective critic of these failed wars like Mr Galloway is savaged as a self-serving demagogue.

The Olympics will militarise London, with surface-to-air missiles, a Royal Navy battleship and 13,500 military personnel, 4,000 more than are currently based in Afghanistan.

The continuing support of all three old parties for war and occupation abroad, has created a chasm between the political class and so many working people.

Britain's deferential role in riding shotgun provides a multilateral veneer for selling American military adventures such as the Iraq war to the American public.

The warmongers rely on the absence of official opposition in Parliament and the subservience of a media dominated by phone hackers and bribers of public officials.

If you're trying to figure out why you can't remember hearing anything about Maya Evans, that's because, as far as most of the media is concerned, there is no story.

If you were David Cameron and choosing between ending the war in Afghanistan, which costs over £5 billion a year, or cutting up to 50% of living allowances for people with disabilities, what would you do?

Britain is out of Iraq and desperate to get out of Afghanistan. So why gird ourselves for a fight with Iran, a proud country of 75 million people with whom we cannot go to war without taking leave of our senses?

When David Cameron visited Tahrir Square in February 2011 -- to support the democracy movement, he claimed -- did he tell the protesters they would soon face British-made tear gas.

While the war budgets are sacrosanct, government cuts are increasing the impoverishment of the old, the poor, the sick and the young with a stark rapidity. 

Westerners are taught to believe "civilised" governments do not commit torture; that it's always barbaric "them" in faraway places and never "us".