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Podcast: Dinyar Godrej on the arms industry
The New Internationalist co-editor speaks about the growth of military spending in an age of austerity.
Filed in: Arms
- Dinyar Godrej
- December 2, 2011
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Arms trade infographic
The ‘war on terror’ saw the west splurge its peace dividend in a frenzy of arms spending. Check out some astonishing facts and figures…
- Dinyar Godrej
- December 1, 2011
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The clout of the arms industry
The arms trade tends to have the government’s ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
- Dinyar Godrej
- December 1, 2011
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The shadow world: corruption in the arms trade
Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.
Filed in: Arms South Africa Trade
- Andrew Feinstein
- December 1, 2011
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Our pal, Qadafi, or: a lesson in hypocrisy
The British government may have condemned him in the end, but only after years of supplying him with weapons, writes Nicholas Gilby.
- Nicholas Gilby
- November 17, 2011
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The DSEi arms fair: merchants of death go shopping
From 13 to 16 September some 25,000 delegates will visit Britain’s largest arms fair. It’s a big, and decidedly dirty, business.
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- Jo Lateu
- September 13, 2011
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Nuclear weapons - the facts
There are over 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Thousands are deployed on land, at sea and in the air, posing the constant threat of nuclear war and radioactive contamination.
Filed in: Arms Nuclear Weapons
- June 1, 2008
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Talking warheads
What are the West’s weapons actually for? asks Paul Rogers.
Filed in: Arms Conflict Nuclear Power Nuclear Weapons Peace
- Paul Rogers
- June 1, 2008
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