Poor, little Israel is blocked from selling death to a foreign country (albeit briefly, as Georgia seems to have been the lucky recipient of the Jewish state’s weapons): Israeli security firms have been shut out of the Olympic Games in China and in the process lost lucrative contracts, industry sources said. U.S. pressure blocked the…
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How many guns for liberation?
The only group to truly benefit from the 9/11 terror attacks has been the global arms industry. More wars, please.
Jews with nukes
Israel finally admits to having nuclear weapons (and thanks the French for providing the invaluable help.)
Weapons for cuddling
$34 billion is being spent in 2009 on the Pentagon’s classified weapons purchases and development. Something to make you sleep well at night.
Killing “them”
Who is really assisting the killing of the world’s Third World population? Yes, the United Kingdom: A controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapulted Britain to the top of the world arms export league last year, as UK firms won a record …£10bn in orders from overseas, official figures show. The figure amounts to a third…
The Israeli death machine
Resistance to Israeli war crimes can take many forms. Sometimes even the judiciary vindicates these actions: There were jubilant scenes in a Belfast court yesterday as six anti-war protesters were unanimously acquitted of destroying property belonging to multinational arms company Raytheon. As the Crown Court jury of four men and seven women were led from…
Black is the new white
US Official: Cluster Bomb Ban Could Hurt ”˜Cooperation’ and ”˜Humanitarian Work’.
Our future is repressed
Naomi Klein reports: With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
A back rub will win this war
Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling…
Our kind of arms dealer
One side of a sordid story: One of the world’s most notorious arms dealers, suspected of supplying weapons to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of pouring huge arms shipments into Africa’s civil wars with his own private air fleet, was arrested by Thai authorities in a hotel here Thursday. His capture was prompted by…