A publication from the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom. “Whilst military capacity is exposed every day to be a terminally ineffective method of assuring security given the nature of modern threats, militaries the world over consume ever-increasing amounts of the world’s human and economic resources. Despite this realization, …
by David Edwards and David CromwellPluto Press, 2009 The authors run the Media Lens website, which challenges the unbalanced view of events provided by mainstream media. In this book they explore in great depth how the news we receive can be biased towards the establishment or corporate agenda. Even those …
by Margaret MacmillanProfile Books Ltd (2009) The uses and abuses of history covered by Margaret MacMillan include the popularity and limitations of history on TV and cinema; the way history has been used selectively to suit the ‘needs’ of current generations; and the way history, particularly military and political, helps …
by P. W. SingerPenguin (2009) Science fiction warfare is already with us for better or more probably for worse. Where does it go from here? We are in the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I Robot and the Terminator. …
by Barry SandersAK Press, 2009 Given the crisis of climate change, military carbon emissions are a matter of concern, but facts have been hard to come by. Barry Sanders, basing his research on the American military machine, illustrates what an enormous environmental threat all military activity poses. He gives numerous …
Edited by Chrys Salt and John Hudson, published by Markings Adrian Mitchell was one of the most respected and admired literary figures of his day, writing plays and poetry for adults and children as well as novels and satire. He was a pacifist; he was a radical, subversive, child-like and …
At the end of June 2009 the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) published the final report of their Commission on National Security for the 21st Century – “Shared Responsibilities: a national security strategy for the UK”. It makes for some interesting reading. A copy of the full report can …
by James FergussonCorgi Books James Fergusson gives us a picture of the fighting in Afghanistan in 2006 that does not match that given through our media. For all our high-tech weapons, this is the story of a frontier war told by the soldiers themselves, reminiscent of some of Kipling’s tales …
Our earth’s environmental crisis will almost certainly be the driver of any future wars – directly or indirectly. The speaker at our AGM in 2008, Dr Stuart Parkinson, set the scene with his presentation ‘Climate Change and Military Conflict’. Dr Parkinson is the Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. Their …
In recent years, the UK Government has published its first National Security Strategy (2008) and also a “Strategic Defence and Security Review” (2010) – the first since 1998. From the National Security Strategy: ‘The aim of this first National Security Strategy is to set out how we will address and …
