CANSEC

Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets arrive in Israel days before airstrikes on Gaza resume killing 400+ people

Photos: Israel has reportedly deployed Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets in “beast mode” (carrying internal and external weapons weighing up to 22,000 pounds); Palestinian families grieving following airstrikes on Gaza last night. On March 18, Aljazeera reported: “At least 404 Palestinians have been killed and 562 wounded as Israel launched Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

The integration of Canadian and US military production puts Canada at risk of complicity in violence against human rights defenders

Photo: Indigenous Lenca defender Berta Cáceres was murdered on March 2, 2016 due to her opposition to the construction of the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras. Her organization, COPINH, is accompanied by Peace Brigades International. Our question: Would it be possible to have a Canadian-version of the proposed US “Berta Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Ottawa-based Gastops provides engine sensors for F-35 warplanes now being used to bomb Gaza

The Breach reports: “According to a Breach investigation, Gastops is the only company in the world that produces engine sensors that go into U.S.-made F-35 combat jets—including the ones dropping 2,000 pound bombs in Gaza.” That article adds: “ To make the F-35 warplanes sold to Israel, Lockheed Martin has Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

1,358 Palestinian human rights defenders may have been killed over the last 10 months

Photo: Journalists holding placards protest the killing of journalist Mohamed Abu Saadeh in an Israeli attack on August 7, 2024. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency. Front Line Defenders has noted: “People considered to be human rights defenders in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory] include journalists, lawyers, medical workers, fieldworkers, international Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI co-founders Murray Thomson and Hans Sinn on NATO, nuclear weapons and disarmament

Photo: Murray Thomson, who co-founded Peace Brigades International in 1981, took part in the ‘Say No to NATO’ protest outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa on March 30, 2019. Thomson passed away on May 2, 2019. The 32 member-countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will collectively spend Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio OSC denounces Civil Force violence and water takings by Carroll Farms pig farms

Photo: The Civil Force in Veracruz. The Associated Press has reported: “Two people were killed Thursday [June 20] when locals protesting alleged water contamination by a pork processing plant clashed with police in the Mexican gulf coast state of Veracruz.” “Residents of the community of San Antonio Limon had been Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada: Canada exported military goods and technology to countries where 232 HRDs were killed in 2023/24

On May 31, Global Affairs Canada released its 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology report. If one looks at the list on pages 22-24 of that report of the non-US countries that Canada exported these goods and technology to and then compares that with the list of countries where Front Line Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Global Affairs Canada report on military exports deepens concerns about the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa and human rights violations

While hundreds of people protesting the companies at CANSEC that sell weapons and technology that enable genocide, war crimes and repression encountered Ottawa Police Service officers with batons and truncheons, a cursory review of the countries that Canada sells “military goods and technology” to reveals substantial reason for concern on Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago