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No UK Troops for Ukraine War Games

The crisis in Ukraine is fast escalating into a civil and proxy war. Over 150 people have died in clashes between Ukrainian Soldiers and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, many of them civilians. In the bloodiest incident, more than 30 people were killed in Odessa when Neo-Nazis set fire to a trade union building. Most

Sicherheit zuerst! Ja zum Gripen am 18 Mai. Blogs

Referendum: Swiss say no to new fighter jets

Referendum poster: "Security first! Yes to Gripen on 18 May" Many European governments have used the situation in the Ukraine as justification to increase military spending. But only in Switzerland do people have a direct say in their country's military policy. And the signal that the Swiss people sent out last

pie chart showing massive war spending in 1913 Blogs

Shifting priorities, then and now

“Social reforms which involve expenditure are at a standstill; we are making drastic cuts in the supplies for education and for housing; our hospitals are seriously embarrassed; our industries are crippled; our unemployed number more than 1,500,000, and yet in the last financial year we spent more than 23 million upon armaments. No wonder the

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