Media Lens looks at the narrow coverage of the Somalia crisis, and the media’s failure to draw attention to the West’s role.

British Attorney Philippe Sands speaks to Democracy Now about the White House role in sanctioning torture.

From the CND site:

May is a month of action against the US missile defence system. US plans to put new bases in central Europe, and NATO’s recent backing for this provocative step, are making a new nuclear arms race more likely. Join us at the following events…

For America and the United Kingdom, staying in Iraq without an exit date would be illegal. Phil Shiner explains why.

The US and Britain are funding one of the most murderous regimes in Latin America, writes Esme Choonara.

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.

Jim Zackey looks at the BBC’s wholly inadequate reporting of the war in Iraq.

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

David Miliband is the good guy, supposedly untainted by the decision to invade Iraq. He even apologises for having misled the House of Commons on rendition – when it was all the Americans’ fault, really.

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

Torture, show trials and execution – former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg talks to Socialist Worker about the reality of US policy

The Independent on the tightened sanctions recently imposed by the U.S. on Iran. Far from halting Iran’s nuclear programme, it writes, the sanctions will serve only to increase the power of the regime at the expense of Iranian democrats.