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…
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…
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…
Video still: How Canada helps build Israel’s fighter jets (The Breach, April 11, 2024) The Associated Press reports: “Human rights groups returned to a Dutch court Friday [June 29] seeking stricter enforcement of a court order to halt Dutch exports to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets used in Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Photo: Riot police responded to the protest at the CANSEC arms show on May 29 in Ottawa against the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems and other companies profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. While the Trudeau government provided unqualified support to the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa this past Read more…
Photo: Protest against the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa, May 29, 2024. The 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology report released by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) on May 31 notes that Canada exported $30,641,495.83 in “military goods” to Israel through 348 “utilized permits”. Of the twelve Export Control List Read more…