A tank rep straightens his jacket.
Jill Gibbon
At one of the world’s largest arms fairs, missiles are treated as commodities and warring regimes as clients.
Analysis shows 21 out of 30 countries on the UK government’s list of repressive regimes received UK military equipment.
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Razor wire, surveillance technologies and gated compounds – welcome to COP27.
Cockpit of the Airbus A330-900.
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In January Airbus agreed to pay nearly 4 billions euros to settle bribery charges. Theories developed by criminology researchers explain how the firm was able to operate so long with such impunity.
The popularity of semiautomatic rifles increases the risk that mass shootings result in multiple deaths.
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The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Sandy Hook lawsuit may lead to a flood of litigation, which ultimately may compel the gun industry to change the way it designs, markets and sells firearms.
Smoke billows from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor (2017). Impossible living conditions force people to migrate. It is time to collect a “destruction tax” on arms transactions ?
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Wars play a central role in increasing numbers of refugees worldwide. Is it time to think about a “destruction tax”?
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There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.
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The connection between oil and arms trade is not a conspiracy theory.
The controversial $12-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia has embroiled Justin Trudeau’s government in controversy. The vehicle in question is shown here at a news conference at a General Dynamics facility in London, Ont., in 2012.
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Canada used to be more careful about selling arms to countries that practised human rights violations. What happened?