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Arms Around the World
Read the Mother Jones analysis of the global arms trade, including details of the US arms lobby and how to thwart their tactics.
Arms Control Association
"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." An extensive collection of documents on the global arms trade, negotiations and treaties, country profiles, in-depth analyses of defense policy, and more.
The Arms Trade Resource Center
Part of the US-based World Policy Instittue, the Arms Trade Resource Center focuses on appropriate defense and foreign policy for the post-Cold War era, especially the crucial role of preventative diplomacy and international arms transfers.
Defense Science Board
"The Department of Defense is embarked on efforts to transform the nation's armed forces to meet the demands being placed on them by a changing world order. There is a growing threat of missiles, information warfare and biological, chemical, and nuclear weaponry, different than the cold war era threat, but equally troublesome." Insights from defense/military policy perspectives on the globalization of the arms trade industry.
Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Founded by the Federation of American Scientists, the Arms Sales Monitoring Project focuses on US goverment policies, conventional weapons, and military assistance. One of the most authoritative resources to track the global arms trade industry.
Arms Conversion Project
"Our mission is to provide information on a range of issues related to Defence Diversification -- military bases, shipbuilding, aerospace, defence, space and government policy."
Arms Trade Oversight Project
"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."
Stratfor
An informative site that tracks business and geopolitical flows, including how the global arms trade can spark flashpoints and hot-spots.
Foreign Policy Magazine
Foreign Policy Magazine examines geoeconomic issues, including the global arms trade industry. Compelling and informative.
Campaign Against Arms Trade
A UK-based organization with introductory information and an excellent collection of links.
DSB Task Force on Globalization and Security: Executive Report
The Pentagon's Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Globalization and Security outlines why the arms trade industry should be globalized. A crucial report for understanding how US policy influences the global arms trade.
Arms Sales Code of Conduct
This PBS forum (July 26, 1996) examines bipartisan legislative initiatives to create guidelines for whom the US sells its arms to. "The four conditions a country would have to meet in order to be eligible for U.S. weapons are: democratic form of government, respect for basic human rights of citizens, non-aggression (against other states), and full participation in the UN Register of Conventional Arms. Present policy leaves the issue largely up to Presidential discrestion, on a country by country basis."
Global Black-Market Arms Trade Should Be Next Target of NGOs
This Journal of the Federation of American Scientists article (July/August 1997) contends that the "moral and practical imperative for focusing on black-market arms is comparable to that which drives the landmine effort."
High-Caliber Carnival
This Mother Jones article (July/August 1999), by Ken Silverstein, tracks the growth of the South American arms trade industry in response to declining Middle East and Asian markets (at the time of writing). A good overview of the fluxes and flows of the global arms trade industry.
US Number One in Arms Sales
This Progressive Media Project article (August 29, 2000), by Pamina Firchow and Tamar Gabelnick, details the rise-to-globalism of the US arms trade industry: "It captured 39 percent of new contracts, totaling $11.8 billion. That's more sales volume than Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China combined. The United States also delivered $18.4 billion worth of arms in 1999, or 54 percent of the worldwide total."
Pentagon Seeks Mega-Mergers Between International Arms
This Project Censored report cites an Arms Sales Monitor article (January 2000) about the globalization of the arms trade industry and the proliferation threats of conventional weapons.
Unlikely Doves: Counter-terrorism Experts
This Alternet article (September 28, 2001), by David Corn, profiles several US counter-terrorist experts, who have some intriguing comments on the roots of anti-US terrorism.
9-11 Opportunists
This Alternet article (September 25, 2001), by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, details how several corporations have exploited the US terrorist attacks for self-gain.
What Happens Next?
This Reason article (October 2, 2001), by Jesse Walker, draws upon popular culture to consider six different responses to the US terrorist attacks.
History Warns Against Simply Arming Afghan Insurgents
This Pacific News Service article (October 2, 2001), by Peter Dale Scott, unearths how covert CIA funding of the Taliban has created a new diplomatic role for Pakistan.
Bush's Faustian Deal With The Taliban
This Los Angeles Times article (May 22, 2001), by Robert Scheer, details the Bush Administration's foreign aid deals with the Taliban.
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