Nato is attempting to cover up a series of massacres committed by its forces in a murderous campaign of airstrikes on Afghanistan.
The US has made a great fanfare over the handing of control of Iraq’s Anbar province to its Iraqi allies this week.
Thousands of bus workers in west and east London are striking today over pay – making a huge impact on services at one of the biggest companies in the city.
"British economy grinds to a halt" cried the headlines last weekend. Charles Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, said the current economic downturn could "drag on for some considerable time" – especially since there always seemed to be "another grenade" waiting to explode in the financial markets.
The occupation of Afghanistan has entered a new and deeper crisis. A rising number of sophisticated attacks on foreign troops, combined with a growing rebellion in Pakistan and Russia's crushing of Nato ally Georgia, have raised the prospect that the occupation is heading for defeat.
The US has been forced to water down its plans for an open-ended occupation of Iraq in the face of growing opposition.
There has been a sudden burst of interest in the Saturday 20 September anti-war demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.
Five and a half years after violating international law and invading Iraq, George Bush's regime shows no sign of handing Iraq back to anything resembling an independent, sovereign government.
London's Notting Hill Carnival is rightly hailed as a celebration of multi-ethnic Britain.
Evidence at the High Court last week has revealed that once again the British government has being lying over the use of torture, and has been illegally kidnapping people as part of the "war on terror".
Supporters of Karen Reissmann, the Manchester nurse who was sacked after speaking out against cuts and privatisation in the NHS, are planning to show their continued backing for her as she takes her former employers to tribunal.
Some 26 leading cancer consultants have written to the government demanding properly funded cancer treatment. One section of the letter states, "We have seen distraught patients remortgaging their houses, giving up pensions and selling cars to buy drugs."
