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4 Dec 2014 3 minute read

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Why has our government relaxed the criteria for granting arms exports?

Edward Robinson on how Britain has traded morals for money.

18 Nov 2014 4 minute read

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Britain is all talk and no action on human rights

Andrew Smith deplores the government’s latest attempts to cosy up to Saudi Arabia.

17 Oct 2014 3 minute read

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Britain’s complicity in ‘beyond description’ bombing of Gaza

Andrew Smith explains why one campaigning group is taking legal action against arms sales to Israel.

5 Sep 2014 3 minute read

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Challenging NATO’s militarism and the arms trade

Andrew Smith decries the close relationship between governments and arms manufacturers.

1 Jul 2014 4 minute read

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Corruption in high places: Britain’s involvement in the arms trade

Andrew Smith speaks to Nicholas Gilby, author, campaigner and winner of a landmark case against the British...

3 Jun 2014 3 minute read

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Arms dealers on trial

Melanie Strickland explains why activists are taking companies to court for selling instruments of torture....

9 May 2014 3 minute read

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Inside the AGM of Europe’s largest arms dealer

Andrew Smith witnessed a lesson in evasion, denial and fabrication.

14 Mar 2014 3 minute read

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What lies behind Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with Bahrain?

Two years ago today, the UK supported a brutal crackdown against Bahraini citizens. Andrew Smith writes.

10 Mar 2014 3 minute read

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China’s military spending: is there a new arms race?

Peter Robertson offers a more sanguine interpretation of the recently announced...

1 Mar 2014 7 minute read

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Meet the protest profiteers

There’s money to be made in crowd ‘control’, as Anna Feigenbaum discovers.

1 Mar 2014 3 minute read

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Money-making and morality are seldom bed-fellows

Chris Coltrane explains why investing in bombing children to feed other children is not OK.

10 Feb 2014 3 minute read

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DSEi protesters ‘Not Guilty’ – but will the real villains ever face the dock?

Peaceful demonstrators are acquitted of ‘aggravated trespass’ but arms dealers remain free to pursue dodgy deals with dubious...

31 Jan 2014 3 minute read

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EU must stop its arms trade hypocrisy

Andrew Smith explains why human rights must be placed at the heart of European foreign policy.

31 Jan 2014 2 minute read

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Peaceful protesters end up in court

Symon Hill asks for support as he and four others face trial for demonstrating against the arms trade.

1 Jul 2013 9 minute read

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Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn

As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to big...

19 Jun 2013 8 minute read

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Why are we so afraid of chemical weapons?

War is destruction. So why, asks MG Zimeta, does the ‘existential threat’ of an airborne toxic event in Syria...

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