Peace & Security

How international rules on countering the financing of terrorism impact civil society

May 2013
Ben Hayes

Making banks and non-profits liable for the acts and social networks of their customers and beneficiaries while holding charities and CSOs responsible for the ‘extremist’ views and actions of their associates stifles freedom of association and expression and promotes self-censorship.

Europe’s guns, debt and corruption

May 2013
Frank Slijper

This second of two essays on military spending and the EU crisis, explores the role of the European arms trade, corruption and the role of arms exporting countries in fuelling a debt crisis, and why these 'odious' debts need to be written off.

Austerity in Europe? Tighten the military belt

May 2013
Frank Slijper

Five years into the economic crisis in Europe and the elephant in the room is the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.

Guns, debt and corruption

April 2013
Frank Slijper

High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding economic crisis in Europe and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it.

Way worse than a dumb war: Iraq ten years later

March 2013
John Cavanagh
Phyllis Bennis

The US war in Iraq may be over, but we owe an apology grounded in the recognition of our enormous debt to the people of Iraq, a debt for which compensation and reparations are only a start.

How the EU subsidises Israel’s military-industrial complex

March 2013
Ben Hayes

The EU is providing generous R&D (research and development) subsidies to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned manufacturer of Israeli ‘drones’ and other ‘battlefield solutions’. Some of the grants are for IAI to adapt its killer robots for use within the EU. 

 
 

Zero Dark Thirty & the Question of Torture

January 2013
Tom Reifer

It is high time Americans recognize that: “If torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

Will Chuck Hagel's Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?

January 2013
Phyllis Bennis

Hagel’s nomination engendered bitter, angry opposition from the moment it was floated as a trial balloon. And the fact that Obama went ahead with the nomination is a good indication that on at least some critical foreign policy issues, Obama is not prepared to allow either the pro-Israeli lobbies or the hard-core neoconservatives, in and outside of Washington, to determine whom he could and could not choose as Secretary of Defense.

Secrets, Lies, & Propaganda

January 2013
Tom Reifer

After the US embrace of torture after 9/11 it was only a matter of time before Hollywood decided to make a tribute to America’s liberal culture of torture for the big screen; Zero Dark Thirty

After Doha: rejecting dystopia by default

December 2012
Ben Hayes
Nick Buxton

We need to challenge the security industries and military that are thriving on the fear and insecurity created by our governments' inaction on climate change.