Kate Hudson, Chair of CND, presents a history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

David Wearing reviews Channel Four's recent Dispatches programme on Islamophobia, and argues that aggression overseas is intimately connected with the demonisation of domestic minorities.

"We are dealing not with the wishes of an existing community but are consciously seeking to re-constitute a new community and definitely building for a numerical majority in the future.” - Lord Balfour, 1919. A.G. Noorani traces the British role in establishing a Jewish state.

Far from rehabilitating liberal interventionism, the Kosovo experience has exposed the fatal flaws that lie at its heart, writes Seamus Milne.

John Pilger describes how the Palestinian breakout of Gaza offers inspiration for people struggling to bring down the new Berlin Walls all over the world.

Anti-war activists have not always embraced the rhetoric of anti-imperialism. Richard Phillips examines the many meanings of that slippery term and asks whether it is still relevant in describing today’s unequal and often violent world.