Arms Trade Treaty could Legitimise Arms Sales Media Release, Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) (UK)
Arms Trade Treaty: A Historic and Momentous Failure by Kirk Jackson, Online Communications Coordinator, CAAT (UK)
We have an Arms Trade Treaty -- What difference does it make? by Wendela de Vries, Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade
Arms Trade Treaty -- Towards What End? by D.Raghunandan, Delhi Science Forum (India)
Why the Arms Trade Treaty is a Failure by Barnaby Pace, The Armourers Faith (UK)
The fatal flaw in the Arms Trade Treaty by Nicholas Gilby, UK author No Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade (New Internationalist)
Progressives, Pariahs & Sceptics: Who’s Who in the Arms Trade Treaty? by Anna Stavrianakis, Dep't of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK.

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"Profiting from Israeli Apartheid:
Canada Pension Plan Investments in Corporations Supporting
Israel's Military-, Police-, Surveillance-, Prison-Industrial Complex
Read COAT's two-part report online...   Part 1 (Issue 66)   Part 2 (Issue 67)

"COAT’s research on CPP investments in Israeli apartheid is a window into the accelerating militarization of a hugely destructive, global system intricately connected with and complicit in Israel's wars and its occupation of Palestine. 
   "The thorough findings carefully document the corporate profits and impunity, the transnational connections, the weapons and security systems, the militarized prisons and police forces, the destruction of peoples’ lives and environments.  It’s a picture of a thoroughly pathological and globalized sub-society that must be stopped." 

Judith Deutsch, MSW, University of California at Berkeley, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a faculty member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, University of Toronto. She is the vice president of Science for Peace, and was its president between 2008 and 2012. Judy is an active member of Independent Jewish Voices Toronto, and is also involved with climate justice research and action.

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Canada's Six Largest
Pension Funds Invest in War

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Canada's largest pension funds and their
investments in the world's weapons industries.

February 20, 2013: Canadian War Industries Flog their Wares at IDEX 2013,
the Middle East's Largest Arms Bazaar

Stoking the Tsunamis
of War and Repression
On March 11, 2011, just hours after Japan's earthquake, the Canadian government finally released its much-delayed, severely-flawed report on arms exports. Contrary to government rhetoric, over 96% of Canada's military exports go to countries at war. Canadian military exports also aid and abet regimes that flagrantly and systematically abuse basic human rights. 

Canada, at War in Iraq!
"Operation Silent Partner:
Canada's Quiet Complicity in the Iraq War"
(Press for Conversion! Issue 65, Dec. 2010)

Canada's Covert War in Iraq
George Orwell meets Canada's
General Natynczyk in Iraq
(The CCPA Monitor, Sept. 2008)

In the Wake of Wikileaks: A Media Critique of
Revelations about Canadian Duplicity in Iraq
(The CCPA Monitor, July 2011)

Canada's Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa

For decades, Conservative & Liberal governments alike -- while preaching peace and human rights -- have facilitated and promoted the steady flow of weapons, ammunition, tear gas, battle vehicles, explosives and much more, to repressive undemocratic governments in the Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by popular revolutions and protests throughout the region, COAT has published many sets of detailed data tables to expose $2 Billion in Canadian arms exports to the region.  COAT's research shows that Canada is deeply complicit in aiding and abetting many unpopular U.S.-backed puppet regimes that have retained their grip on power through coercion, intimidation and violence.