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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Weapons firms install 50 staff inside the Ministry of DefenceBAE among arms firms paying Ministry of Defence staff’s salaries while winning lucrative contracts
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsArms firms spent €6m lobbying Germany ahead of defence budget hikeThe news raises questions over industry’s access to power, with influential politicians known to work with...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionGiulio Regeni’s murder speaks the truth about Egypt – and Europe tooFrance and Italy promote democracy and human rights while selling more and more arms to Egypt, where the student was...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe UK must immediately stop selling arms that are killing Yemeni civiliansAfter more than five years of war, governments, including the UK, can no longer credibly claim to be fooled by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArms sales are about profit and politics, not ethicsWe must expose where public dollars are really being spent and boycott or divest from the enterprises that profit...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs the DSEI arms fair starts today, campaigners cry foul over UK’s boost for Israeli governmentThe UK government has officially invited the Israeli government to the DSEI arms fair despite a recent UN report...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK’s arming of the Saudis is unlawful, but will a Brexiteering government care?What does today's court victory by human rights campaigners mean for the future of Britain’s arms exports to both...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBAE’s evasive justifications for arming Saudi’s Yemen warCampaigners attended the UK arms company’s AGM and asked some tough questions. The answers failed to convince.
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Published in: HomeWe already know who will win the war in Libya – western arms dealersThey armed Gadaffi and the forces that ousted him alike – now they’re repeating that profitable trick.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJeremy Hunt thinks it would be 'moral bankruptcy' NOT to arm Saudi Arabia. Sorry, what?Next month the case against British arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen goes to the Court of Appeal....
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea is selling arms and breaking sanctions – does anyone care?Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs Sweden complicit in war crimes in Yemen?Despite the documented crimes of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Sweden continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBritain’s foreign policy: it's time for reformWith its prominent position in the arms trade, and the impunity it grants countries like Saudi Arabia, Britain is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Egyptian Army’s violent trail of breadcrumbsSupporting Egypt’s particular brand of fighting terrorism is equivalent to supporting a climate of expedited radicalization.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArms sales to Egypt: when rhetoric overtakes realityIt is impossible to show solidarity with the people of Egypt while arming and supporting the tyranny oppressing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKForty years on, the effects of the 1973-74 oil crisis still shape British foreign policy in the Middle EastYesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 oil shock. Its consequences are still echoing across...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Egypt and Syria, there's never a worse time to host an arms fairThe world's largest arms fair is happening in London - with a little help from the government. After events in Syria...
