https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/the-pentagon-doesnt-need-886bn-i-oppose-this-bloated-defense-budget The proposed military budget that the Senate is now debating would increase defense spending by $28bn to over $886bn, an all-time record. The total is over $900bn if you include nuclear weapons spending through the Department of Energy.... Much of this additional military spending will go to line the pockets of hugely profitable defense … Continue reading Bernie Sanders & 10% Cut to USA Defence Budget 2024
‘Price gouging’ by defence companies
CBS 60 minutes programme reveals the extent of 'price gouging' by defence companies flush with "cash beyond their needs for operations or investment." They have tens of billions of excess cash from Pentagon business to hand out to shareholders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvpqAaJjVU https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-budget-price-gouging-military-contractors-60-minutes-2023-05-21/
Iraq: Ignoring the Expert Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
This account of the build-up to the Iraq war by Robert Kelley is a superb succinct summary. Still, to this day, no one has been held accountable for this devastating illegal invasion. Instead, as Kelley says, it’s passed off as ‘a story of faulty and inadequate intelligence, rather than robust and reliable intelligence information ignored.’ … Continue reading Iraq: Ignoring the Expert Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
COP26 Global military emissions & net zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5itnxaUkA TRANSFORM DEFENCE: PRE-COP26 MEDIA & RESOURCES PACK In advance of COP26 (1-11 Nov), TPNS is releasing its Transform Defence media and resources pack. We aim to draw public, media and political attention to the absence of any official COP26 discussion on the role of military greenhouse gas emissions on climate change and therefore, the … Continue reading COP26 Global military emissions & net zero
COP26 Open Letter Media Release
MEDIA RELEASE 21/10/21 COP26: THE GLOBAL MILITARY, BIG OIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE Today Tipping Point North South’s Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety project releases its COP26 media pack to draw public, media and political attention to the absence at COP26 of any discussion on the role of military greenhouse gas emissions on climate change … Continue reading COP26 Open Letter Media Release
Transform defence for sustainable human safety 