The US was born out of mass murder nearly 400 years ago and its wars of empire are going on today more than ever, leaving millions of people dead across the world.
Heathcote Williams on Christmas 1914 when thousands of troops on both sides unilaterally declared a truce and played football friendlies instead of trying to kill each other.
"War is organised murder," WW1's longest surviving soldier Harry Patch told Tony Blair, who three years earlier had taken Britain into the illegal Iraq war.
Hell's gates were too narrow / For his inflated body to pass through / He'd had to wait his turn. Poet Heathcote Williams on Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon's lingering death.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is one of the world's richest women, worth £17 billion. Her investments in the arms trade include firms that produce the uranium used in depleted uranium shells.