Escalating border conflict no problem for Dutch arms trade with Thailand
The Thai-Cambodian border conflict has escalated over the past months. On 22 April at least six soldiers were killed and thousands of…
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25 april 2011 Paasmars voor Ontwapening en Vrede te Almelo
De Paasmars trekt dit jaar langs enkele vestigingen van de Twentse wapen- en kernindustrie, onder het mom: “De een z’n brood is…
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Defensie kiest: voor zware wapens
12/04/2011 – Welke inhoudelijke keuzes worden gemaakt bij de bezuinigingen op defensie? Wat voor leger willen we hebben? Lees een analyse van…
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Global arms industry targets growth market in Rio
According to the latest figures of peace research institute SIPRI the world’s military spending continued its upward trend in 2010 with an…
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Damen expanding in Vietnam
Dutch shipyard group Damen has signed a contract with the Vietnamese government aiming at a “step up in cooperation and transfer of…
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Airbus Military manipulates Oxfam figure to bolster arms sales
Something that has struck me for years is the rather explicit nature of arms industry advertising. All military magazines have them. Promoting…
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Arms trade with Libya: yes-no-yes-no
Last year the potential sale of night vision equipment to Libya was debated at the highest government level in the Netherlands. Documents…
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Wapenhandel met dictators
Springstof, Vredesmagazine nr.2 2011
Door Frank Slijper
Stormachtige ontwikkelingen in Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten – een paar maanden eerder nog ondenkbaar –…
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Security concerns in Yemen
For weeks protesters in Yemen have called for an end to president Saleh’s 33-year-long rule. In response, the president sent tanks onto…
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Europe’s oldest embargo – arms sales to superpower China
15 Mar 2011, Frank Slijper
After the bloody suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, the European Union (and the…
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