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27 mei 2011

EADS is a Dutch public limited company (“NV”), with headquarters in the university town of Leiden. When this pan-European enterprise was set…

22 mei 2011

With hardly any foreign journalist in the country the little news that is getting out of Syria comes through people who take…

17 mei 2011

In April The New York Times and Human Rights Watch revealed that Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi had used cluster bombs…

11 mei 2011

In April Dutch Defence minister Hillen announced long-expected defence cuts as part of austerity measures in response to the economic crisis. As…

26 april 2011

The Thai-Cambodian border conflict has escalated over the past months. On 22 April at least six soldiers were killed and thousands of…

12 april 2011

According to the latest figures of peace research institute SIPRI the world’s military spending continued its upward trend in 2010 with an…

6 april 2011

Dutch shipyard group Damen has signed a contract with the Vietnamese government aiming at a “step up in cooperation and transfer of…

4 april 2011

Something that has struck me for years is the rather explicit nature of arms industry advertising. All military magazines have them. Promoting…

23 maart 2011

Last year the potential sale of night vision equipment to Libya was debated at the highest government level in the Netherlands. Documents…

22 maart 2011

For weeks protesters in Yemen have called for an end to president Saleh’s 33-year-long rule. In response, the president sent tanks onto…