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1 Jul 2013 9 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

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

This article is almost ten years old.

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...

14 Jun 2012 4 minute read

This article is almost 11 years old.

Drone killings: a result of our animal instincts?

Or are they a mechanism that allows people to bypass a natural aversion to killing? Syed Hamad Ali...

Clear Sri Lankan landmines now!

5 Apr 2012 1 minute read

This article is almost 11 years old.

Clear Sri Lankan landmines now!

Libby Powell is with the Mines Advisory Group who are teaching children perhaps their most important lesson:...

Podcast: Dinyar Godrej on the arms industry

2 Dec 2011 1 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Podcast: Dinyar Godrej on the arms industry

The New Internationalist co-editor speaks about the growth of military spending in an age of austerity.

1 Dec 2011 7 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

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-...

1 Dec 2011 5 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

The shadow world: corruption in the arms trade

Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.

1 Dec 2011 1 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

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...

Video: the almighty influence of the arms trade

18 Nov 2011 1 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Video: the almighty influence of the arms trade

Our pal, Qadafi, or: a lesson in hypocrisy

17 Nov 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

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 ...

Action at the arms fair

15 Sep 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Action at the arms fair

Jamie Kelsey-Fry on the first day of protests at the DSEi arms exhibition.

The DSEi arms fair: merchants of death go shopping

13 Sep 2011 2 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

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,...

2 Nov 2008 6 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Losing Afghans

How to lose friends and alienate people, by Kabul defence journalist, *Khabaryal*.

Small arms, big bangs

2 Jul 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Small arms, big bangs

A thousand people die every day from gunshot wounds, and 3,000 more are severely injured. Surprisingly, those targeted are not...

2 Jun 2008 5 minute read

This article is almost 15 years old.

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...

Talking warheads

2 Jun 2008 6 minute read

This article is almost 15 years old.

Talking warheads

What are the West’s weapons actually for? asks *Paul Rogers*.

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