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- Military vs. Climate Security
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Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore called on the nations of the world to mobilize to avert climate disaster "with a sense of urgency and shared resolve that has previously been seen only when nations have mobilized for war." This report measures in fiscal terms how far the US has to go to reach that goal. (Miriam Pemberton, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2008)
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/military%20vs%20climate%20security-final.pdf
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- Moving Beyond Missile Defense
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A joint project of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the project "Moving Beyond Missile Defense" aims at developing alternatives to the emerging missile race. The project will introduce science-based proposals into the international debate and the political decision-making process on missile defense, and promote concepts and initiatives that enhance international stability and cooperation on governmental and non-governmental levels.
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- Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Every day, on average, more than thirty thousand children under the age of five die from malnutrition or disease because they do not have access to adequate food, clean water, or basic health care. It is estimated by UNICEF that every day two thousand children are maimed or killed in armed conflict; and countless thousands more are traumatised by war. Every day global military expenditure is equivalent to (US) $ 2,835,616,438. Knowing this, the New Zealand government chooses to promote and support companies who manufacture and export weapons, weapons components, and related products.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/nowarp.htm
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- Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (PDF)
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By John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors). The fight for the future is not between the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons those of traditional armed forces. Rather, the combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, or drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and Mexico. On the positive side are civil-society activists fighting for the environment, democracy and human rights. What all have in common is that they operate in small, dispersed units that can deploy anywhere, anytime to penetrate and disrupt. They all feature network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war, they are proving very hard to beat.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/
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- President Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy: Illogical, Ineffective and Dangerous
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Union of Concerned Scientists, January 22, 2003. By Kurt Gottfried. The Bush administration is keenly aware that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists or desperate states pose the gravest potential danger facing the United States. But the policies the administration has adopted to cope with these threats flow from a set of illogical priorities. The administration's policies regarding America's own nuclear weapons have systematically undercut the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has for 33 years defined the only internationally accepted barrier to nuclear proliferation. In addition, the richest and most likely source of nuclear materials and weapons for terrorists and would-be proliferators is the enormous and poorly secured Russian stockpile. Yet the administration has placed far lower priority on this ticking time-bomb than on nuclear threats that do not yet exist. (Kurt Gottfried is an emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University, and is a cofounder and the chair of the board of directors of UCS).
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- Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'
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(ZNet) Iraq: invasion that will live in infamy. By Noam Chomsky, August 11, 2003. SEPTEMBER 2002 was marked by three events of considerable importance, closely related. The United States, the most powerful state in history, announced a new national security strategy asserting that it will maintain global hegemony permanently. Any challenge will be blocked by force, the dimension in which the US reigns supreme. At the same time, the war drums began to beat to mobilise the population for an invasion of Iraq. And the campaign opened for the mid-term congressional elections, which would determine whether the administration would be able to carry forward its radical international and domestic agenda.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=4030
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- Promoting peace is for wimps - real governments sell weapons
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Labour seems to see the escalating dangers in the Middle East as little more than an opportunity for business. Why are government ministers, even Blair himself, prepared to reduce themselves to hawkers on behalf of arms merchants? (George Monbiot, Guardian, 24 August 2006)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14673.htm
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- Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September 2000. A Report of the Project for the New American Century
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Established in the spring of 1997, the Project for the New American Century is a nonprofit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The Project is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project. William Kristol is chairman of the Project, and Robert Kagan, Devon Gaffney Cross, Bruce P. Jackson and John R. Bolton serve as directors. Gary Schmitt is executive director of the Project. "As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's most preeminent power. Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievement of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?"
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
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- School of the Americas Watch
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SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
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- School of the Americas Watch
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The US Army School of Americas (SOA), based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains Latin American security personnel in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. SOA graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. In 1996 the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians the school. The goal of this movement - School of Americas Watch - is to build up publicity to convince Congress to withhold funding for the school.
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- SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
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This is an annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. Among other things, the Yearbook indicates that military expenditure, weapons production and international weapons transfers are all on the rise. Press releases, individual chapter summaries, and ordering details are available at this website. (SIPRI, June 2006)
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- Small Arms Survey
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The proliferation of small arms and light weapons represents a grave threat to human security. The unchecked spread of these weapons has exacerbated inter- and intra-state conflicts, contributed to human rights violations, undermined political and economic development, destabilized communities, and devastated the lives of millions of people. The Swiss government, in conjunction with other interested governments, established the Small Arms Survey project in 1999. Administered and produced in Geneva by a small but dedicated team, the work of the project is targeted at the widest possible audience of researchers, policy makers, governments, and activists. It uses its location in Geneva and its international network of partners to foster broad-ranging understanding and in-depth research on the issue of small arms and light weapons.
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/
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- Strengthening compliance with UN arms embargoes -key challenges for monitoring and verification
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UN arms embargoes are systematically violated and must be urgently strengthened if they are to stop weapons fuelling human rights abuses, according to a new report presented to the UN Security Council. According to the Control Arms Campaign, every one of the 13 UN arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been repeatedly violated. And despite hundreds of embargo breakers being named in UN reports, only a handful have been successfully prosecuted. It is hoped that the report's list of recommendations will assist discussion in the United Nations to improve the verification of violations of its arms embargoes, and compliance with such embargoes. (Brian Wodd, Amnesty International, 16 March 2006)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engior400052006
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- The Arms Control Association (ACA) - US
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The Arms Control Association (ACA), founded in 1971, is a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies. Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, ACA provides policy-makers, the press and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues.
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- The Arms Trade Treaty
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Control Arms website. The international community must adopt a global Arms Trade Treaty in time for the next UN arms conference in 2006. A global Arms Trade Treaty is desperately needed now. It would create legally binding arms controls and ensure that all governments control arms to the same basic international standards. In short, it would help stop weapons falling into the hands of indiscriminate killers and human rights abusers. But the world's governments are taking little or no action to achieve this. Responsibility for the bloodshed and misery caused by the absence of effective arms controls stops directly at their doors. The success of the international campaigns to ban landmines, cancel third world debt and establish an international criminal court proved that many governments do take notice of public opinion. The Control Arms campaign could be just as influential in pushing governments to adopt an Arms Trade Treaty - but only if enough people join us.
http://www.controlarms.org/the_issues/whats_wanted.htm
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- The Council for a Livable World
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The Council for a Livable World, the Council for a Livable World Education Fund and PeacePAC are among the nation's preeminent arms control organizations and focus on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, opposing a national missile defense system, cutting Pentagon waste and reducing excessive arms exports. The Council and PeacePAC are also political lobbies which endorse political candidates.
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- The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
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Founded in 1992 by the joint efforts of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice (FCPJ); Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado Springs); and New York-based Journalism professor Karl Grossman. latest news, calendar of events, latest newsletter, reports etc. articles european news, statement of concern, by-laws & meetings, ballistic missile defense, star wars contractors, anti-satellite weapons, nuclear rockets, space ethics/moral issues, future plutonium missions, cassini fly-by, past nuclear space accidents, space colonization & mining, solar options for space missions, moon, mars, space law, space junk, int'l space station, affiliated organ'tions, past protest actions, military books, web links, picture gallery, music & entertainment, sales.
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- The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
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Founded in 1992 by the joint efforts of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice (FCPJ); Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado Springs); and New York-based Journalism professor Karl Grossman.
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- The Israeli and Syrian Conventional Military Balance
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This report explores how the armed forces of 'Israel and Syria have evolved in response to continued tension and the prospects for conflict between the two countries.' The findings suggest that the Israel's military presents a significant deterrent to Syrian military action.
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080611_israeli-syrian_conv_mil_bal.pdf
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- The Military Picture
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BBC's clickable Guide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/americas/2001/military_picture/default.stm
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- The Other Guantanamo
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On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world.
http://www.alternatives.ca/article3571.html
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- THE ROGUE STATE
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Legendary foreign correspondent JOHN PILGER on America's bid to control the world. FOR 101 days, Royal Marines have been engaged in a farcical operation as mercenaries of the United States whose lawlessness now qualifies it as the world's leading rogue state. Shooting at shadows, and the occasional tribesman, blowing up mounds of dirt and displaying "captured" arms for the media, all have been part of the Marines' humiliating role in Afghanistan - a role foisted upon them by the Blair government, whose deference to and collusion with the Bush gang has become a parody of the imperial courtier.
http://www.medialens.org/articles/the_articles/articles_2002/jp_rogue_state.html
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- The Sunshine Project
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The Sunshine Project is an international non-profit organization with offices in Hamburg, Germany and Austin, Texas, USA. We work against the hostile use of biotechnology in the post-Cold War era. We research and publish to strengthen the global consensus against biological warfare and to ensure that international treaties effectively prevent development and use of biological weapons.
http://www.sunshine-project.org/
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- Towards an arms trade treaty: next steps for the UN programme of action [PDF]
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This paper marks the UN Biennial Meeting of States on preventing the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons (SALW) in New York in July 2005. It argues that there is an urgent need for a consolidated international Arms Trade Treaty that will provide a firm and unambiguous international mechanism to prohibit the transfer of weapons and ammunition to places where they are likely to be used for serious abuses of human rights, or to violate international humanitarian law.
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/pdfs/bp_ArmsTradeTreaty_BMS_050704.pdf
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- U.S. Weapons at War 2005: Promoting Freedom or Fueling Conflict?
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A World Policy Institute Special Report by Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, with Leslie Heffel June 2005. This report is part of a continuing series of issue briefs on contemporary security issues being published by the World Policy Institute's Program on Collective Security and Preventive Diplomacy. "Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush's pledge to "end tyranny in our world" than the United States' role as the world's leading arms exporting nation. Although arms sales are often justified on the basis of their purported benefits, from securing access to overseas military facilities to rewarding coalition allies in conflicts such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, these alleged benefits often come at a high price. All too often, U.S. arms transfers end up fueling conflict, arming human rights abusers, or falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries."
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/wawjune2005.html
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