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New Report Reveals Canada’s Planned Fighter Jet Purchase Will Top $77B
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
A very common way to compare countless other measurements is per capita, and this seems valuable to me too, when it comes to military spending.
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and peacekeeping now.
Militaries are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is currently no consolidated public reporting of GHG emissions for the national militaries of the European Union.
Agence France-Presse reports that the 15-member United Nations Security Council will hold a video-conference summit this coming Tuesday February 23 to discuss the impact of “global warming on world peace.”
New video with Leah Bolger, President of World BEYOND War.
This week’s conversation with Suad Aldarra and Yaser Alashqar looks at militarism and human displacement.
This week’s conversation is the 3rd of the World BEYOND War Irish chapter’s weekly Wednesday webinar series. We spoke with Dublin-based filmmaker Dave Donnellan on war’s environmental impact.