Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon challenge why Israel’s largest arms firm and a company mired in a corruption scandal are even being considered for training British troops.
Labour & Elbit’s £2 Billion Military Deal
Category: Military Industry
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
Craig Murray: Hedge Fund Owns ‘RAF Planes’ Targeted by Palestine Action
Untangling the ownership of the RAF’s Voyager refueling aircraft shows how public money lavished on U.K. “defence” winds up rewarding rich financiers.
Australian Exports to Israel Include Items for Military Use
AU ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza, writes Kellie Tranter.
Trade Wars: The Decline of America
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Confirmed: Australian Weapons Sold to Israel
AU ELECTION: With the federal government covering for them, a Canberra-based company has supplied lethal weapons to a country accused of war crimes and genocide, Michelle Fahy reports.
The New Age Militarists
The high-tech oligarchs surrounding Trump are set on using artificial intelligence and new technologies for the sake of uniting us around perpetual war, says William Hartung.
Starmer’s Plan for UK Growth Is the Ukraine War
Mark Curtis on the Labour government’s increase in military spending and its extraordinary new agreement with Ukraine.
Droning the Pentagon
An assortment of new firms, born in Silicon Valley or incorporating its disruptive ethos, are beginning to win lucrative military contracts, writes Michael T. Klare.
Angling Toward Armageddon
William Hartung reports on a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to build more kinds of nuclear weapons and ever more of them.