Jonathan Miller – guardian.co.uk, Channel 4’s foreign affairs correspondent reports from Syria on the mounting body of evidence that the state is engaging in widespread

Tariq Ali  – guardian.co.uk Exhausted by war and the resultant suicide terrorism within its borders, Pakistan is in a terrible mess, worse than at any

  Syrian troops battled army defectors today in clashes that left several military vehicles in flames. The fighting and other violence around the nation killed

Karen McVeigh – guardian.co.uk Amnesty International condemns State Department as ‘irresponsible’ for granting export licences to munitions firms. Two US companies have shipped crowd control

Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph. Eamonn McCann explains how proclamations about "humanitarian" intervention have been used as a cover for imperial domination in Libya. A

  Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph Belfast Daily Telegraph columnist Eamonn McCann draws up a balance sheet of the West’s war in Afghanistan–and finds nothing

By Aslak Sira Myhre – The Guardian Norwegian Aslak Sira Myhre says we need to use the atrocity in his country to strike a blow

By Mehdi Hasan – The Guardian As the belief has grown that dissent by politically active Muslims has not just been stigmatised, but criminalised, many