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London CAAT met at 11am today to start our “Central London Arms Trade Crawl” outside BAE’s headquarters. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in this first leg we were emphasising the corrupt nature of the trade in death in our home city. The secluded Carlton Gardens, where the firm that the government won't allow to be investigated for corruption
Hi, it’s Anne here – a brand new CAAT volunteer. I was down at the Shut DESO demonstration yesterday. DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation) is a government agency which promotes the UK arms export business. It employs about 500 civil servants. About thirty people turned up which is great for a mid-morning, mid-week demo. DESO were holding their
On Thursday 15th March I am giving a talk to the very active Bristol CAAT group. Do come along if you can – details are here. The subject is very topical – corruption. The title of my talk will be “the Ministry of Defence and the bribe culture: from active participation to passive complicity”. It
UK stats show UK was second biggest arms exporter in the world from 2010-2019, with £86 billion worth of arms sales Almost 60% of sales went to the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia being by far the largest buyer UK-made weapons have played a central role in the Saudi-led bombardment of Yemen New figures,
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