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BAE plea bargain settlement to come before judge on 20 December

District Judge Caroline Tubbs today gave permission for the plea bargain settlement agreed between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and BAE Systems to be heard at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday 20 December. At this unprecedented hearing a judge will be asked to confirm the final settlement. The single criminal

Santa and elves assemble outside Olympia Blogs

Santa and his elves protest against DSEI arms fair owners

Santa and elves assemble outside Olympia Santa and his elves turned up at Kensington Olympia on Sunday 7 November to protest about the Spirit of Christmas being corrupted by the owners of the DSEI arms fair. The Spirit of Christmas Fair was taking place and the organisers of

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Campaigners welcome audit investigation into BAE accounts

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have welcomed the decision by the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) to investigate KPMG’s audit of arms giant BAE Systems. AADB will study KPMG audits in relation to the commissions paid by BAE through any route to subsidiaries, agents and any connected

Children being shown how to make robot vehicles Blogs

How BAE uses LEGO to groom children

Why is arms company BAE Systems encouraging schoolchildren to play with LEGO? The company wants children to develop the skills it needs for developing high-tech weapons platforms, and has hit upon LEGO's programmable robot kits called Mindstorms as a fun way to get kids interested.

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BAE Systems protest at Guardian’s London Graduate Fair

Two weeks after the launch of Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s new Ban BAE counter-recruitment campaign, students and anti-arms trade activists kicked off the academic year by taking over a BAE recruitment presentation and staging a die-in at their stall. The action took place at the Guardian’s busy Graduate Fair held at

CAAT staff poised with inflatable hammers over a model of an EDO-armed fighter plane Blogs

ITT’s Hammertime!

Yesterday I took part in an action which managed to close down arms factory EDO/ITT/MBM for a day. The extremely heavy policing stopped us from blocking the road to the factory, but tens of police vans in our way meant our actions had the desired effect: to close the factory and maximise economic damage to

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