Arms Sales: What We Know About Bombs Being Dropped in Our Name
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered.
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered.
In one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from decades of Israeli attacks against Gaza, four children playing on a beach were murdered in 2014 by an Israeli drone strike.
The Israeli Nation-State law passed in 2018 confirms, both legally as well as in reality, that Israel is an apartheid state.
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains them.
Military spending allocated in the 2021 New Zealand Wellbeing Budget is $5,188,350,000 – an average of more than $99.7 million every week, and a 10.6% increase on actual spending in 2020.
On May 17, 2021, TAX DAY, WOMEN AGAINST WAR marked the GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION ON MILITARY SPENDING (GDAMS) by exploring the tradeoffs which proposed increased spending on nuclear weapons and their modernization represent.
While the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism.
Coming from a developing country, I have a somewhat different view of sanctions because it has enabled me to see the actions of the US from both a positive and a not so positive perspective.
