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'.

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.

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.

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.

London Mayor Boris Johnson says the Woolwich killing could not be connected in any way with British foreign policy. Really? says MP Jeremy Corbyn.

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.

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.

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.

Denying the right to discuss British foreign policy in the wake of the horrific murder in Woolwich is short-sighted and dangerous

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

"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.