Amy Goodman talks to Jan Tamas, from the Czech Republic, founder of the No Bases Initiative, a coalition against the proposed US missile system in Eastern Europe, and Olivier Bancoult of the Chagos Refugee Group, expelled at the age of four from his native Diego Garcia, the site of a US military base since British forces expelled native islanders in the early 1970s.

Andy Rowell on the Chagos islanders’ protest outside Downing Street earlier this month.

If its record over the plight of the Chagos islanders is anything to go by, writes Neville de Silva, the west seems to have been given a moral licence from up above to do as it pleases, when it pleases.