We examine the corrupting influence of an out-of-control “military-industrial complex” in America and troubling signs of the same mechanism at work in Canada, undercutting our diplomatic efforts abroad.
The corrupting influence of the arms industry
Tag Archives: Military Industrial Complex
New Peace Centre needed to balance defence industry-funded think tanks
We call on the Government of Canada to hold consultations with civil society on a new independent centre for international peace and security. It is urgently needed to counter think tank policy advice backed by defence industry funding.
Canada at a crossroads with its arms export policy
Let Foreign Minister Chystia Freeland know that Canada’s Arms Trade Treaty accession legislation, Bill C-47, is just not credible without the inclusion of Canadian military exports to the United States.
Taxpayers subsidize defence industry’s participation in arms trade shows
Reporter Lee Berthiaume discusses government subsidies to the defence industry.
Eisenhower's farewell address and F-35s
On Monday January 17th, 2011 Steven Staples’s Hill Times article will commemorate Eisenhower’s iconic farewell speech and offer some thoughts on today’s military industrial complex.