You would never guess from the BBC that the US public wants America to keep out of Syria, opposes sending arms to the rebels, and only supports 'humanitarian assistance'.
United Kingdom
US wrecking of Muslim countries no obstacle to the BBC promoting intervention to 'fix' Syria
- 18 June 2013
- United Kingdom
War, weapons and welfare: why Stop the War supports the People's Assembly Against Austerity
- 10 June 2013
- Lindsey German
- United Kingdom
While the government consigns people to real misery through benefit cuts, the bedroom tax and NHS privatisation, it reacts in amazement if anyone suggests cuts in arms spending.
RIP Iain Banks 16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013: writer and great supporter of the anti-war movement
- 09 June 2013
- Iain Banks
- United Kingdom
Iain Banks the novelist has died at the age of 59. A committed supporter of the anti-war movement, he tore up his passport in 2007 in protest over Tony Blair's lies that took Britain into war with Iraq.
How the media helps war-makers peddle the lie of bloodless warfare
- 01 June 2013
- Alex Thomson
- United Kingdom
The UK public's perception of how many have died from the Iraq war is so far from the reality that it leaves reporter Alex Thomson from Channel 4 News speechless.
Jeremy Corbyn MP: Don't let the racists use Woolwich to divide us
- 31 May 2013
- Jeremy Corbyn MP
- United Kingdom
London Mayor Boris Johnson says the Woolwich killing could not be connected in any way with British foreign policy. Really? says MP Jeremy Corbyn.
The pointless Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37 billion
- 30 May 2013
- Richard Norton-Taylor
- United Kingdom
By 2020, the cost of the Afghanistan war will be at least £40bn, enough to pay 5,000 nurses for their whole career or fund free tuition for all college students for 10 years.
Britain's wars fuel terror. Denying it only feeds Islamophobia
- 29 May 2013
- Seumas Milne
- United Kingdom
The reason cited by the alleged Woolwich killers – the role of British troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror – has been mostly brushed aside as unseemly to discuss.
Why no one has been held to account for a decade of UK war crimes
- 29 May 2013
- Matt Carr
- United Kingdom
Throughout this bleak decade, we have not found a way to use the democratic instruments available to us to hold our governments accountable for the things they do that are wrong.
The reaction to the Woolwich murder denies British Muslims a political voice
- 28 May 2013
- United Kingdom
Denying the right to discuss British foreign policy in the wake of the horrific murder in Woolwich is short-sighted and dangerous
Deny UK foreign policy had anything to do with Woolwich and you come close to excusing the killers
- 27 May 2013
- Terry Eagleton
- United Kingdom
If you deny your enemy any shred of rationality, you come perilously close to excusing him. To be bereft of reason, like a baby or a squirrel, is to be morally innocent.
John Pilger: why iniquity of Tony Blair's Iraq crimes is on a par with Woolwich killing
- 27 May 2013
- John Pilger
- United Kingdom
Iraq is no longer news: the killing of 57 Iraqis in one day was a non-event compared with the murder of a British soldier in London. Yet the two atrocities are connected.
How the UK security services connect the Woolwich killing to the war on terror
- 26 May 2013
- John Rees
- United Kingdom
Security service harassment is part of a wider story, not just in the Woolwich killing, but in other cases where torture, rendition and death have been the result, reports John Rees
Terrorism and wars in Muslim countries: is there any connection?
- 25 May 2013
- United Kingdom
The politicians who have waged endless wars in Muslim countries are exactly the people who now want to deny any connection between their policy and the rise of terrorism.
Is a 'surgical strike' in Afghanistan any more palatable than a surgical hacking in Woolwich?
- 24 May 2013
- John Hilley
- United Kingdom
In essence, is state killing not terrorism? Would the bloody outcomes of Nato strikes ever appear so graphically on front pages the way they have for the Woolwich killing?
Of course UK wars were root cause of Woolwich killing says former British soldier
- 23 May 2013
- Joe Glenton
- United Kingdom
After Woolwich, says former soldier Joe Glenton, we must make our government end the UK's involvement in vicious foreign occupations that have again created bloodshed in London.
Was the London machete killing of a British soldier really 'terrorism'?
- 23 May 2013
- Glenn Greenwald
- United Kingdom
"Terrorism" seems to have no function other than legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing all violence done in return to those states.




