In a UK Watch exclusive, Jamie Stern-Weiner examines Britain's role in facilitating the destruction of any basis for a viable two-state settlement, finding little evidence in Brown's recent speech before the Knesset to justify much hope for the forseeable future.

The war in Afghanistan is, according to the British government, the most noble cause of the 21st century. Lindsey German begs to differ.

Patrick Cockburn assesses the prospects for Iraq and the occupation, suggesting that an attempt to force an outright military victory will only prolong the occupation and the resistance

Stephen Lendman provides a detailed analysis of the BBC's biased reporting on the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The journalists who have been venting righteous outrage over the recent actions of the Burmese regime have been curiously silent about the UK's far more destructive actions in Iraq, writes Media Lens.

The reasons for the West’s stalemate in Afghanistan lie in the nature of the occupation regime, and not in the lack of troops or obstruction by the Pakistan regime. Tariq Ali reports.

Medialens questions Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor, on the BBC's unequal coverage of Palestinian and Israeli deaths.

Andy Rowell looks at some of the lessons we could have learnt from the Iraq invasion - if we had wanted to.

The Iraq catastrophe isn't down to mistakes or lack of planning, but a refusal to accept that people will resist foreign occupation, writes Seamus Milne.

The Iraq war has set new standards for mendacity and propaganda, writes Patrick Cockburn.

_Ian Sinclair_ interviews _Haifa Zangana_ about the occupation of Iraq and the resistance in the wake of Zangana's recently published _City of Widows - An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance_

Washington's covert attempts to overturn an election result lie behind the crisis in Gaza, as leaked papers show, writes Seamus Milne.

As the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip escalated, mainstream reporting again failed to provide the necessary context to the violence, writes Media Lens.

Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Lord Archer of Sandwell on the systematic denial of human rights and self-determination in West Papua, carried out with the complicity of the British government.

Arab Media Watch expresses concern at the lack of critical commentary in the British press on Israel's recent decision to intensify its siege of the Gaza Strip by withholding vital fuel supplies and increasing military attacks.

The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure, says Seumas Milne

My film features both Iraqis and US marines, but the true protagonists of the Haditha massacre are Bush and Blair, writes Nick Broomfield.

Media Lens and Nikolai Lanine continue their review of the marked similarities in Soviet and Western news media.

Tony Blair’s government committed the British military to the invasion and occupation of the deep south of Iraq, where the troops met immediate and growing resistance. The whole war has been as much a serious error for Britain as for the US, concludes David Wearing.

With the media subdued, governments have not been held to account for the biggest political calamity of our time, writes Madeleine Bunting.