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Global military spending tops $1.8 trillion, highest on record

Global military spending has reached a new post-Cold War high, topping $1.8 trillion in 2018, according to an annual report published this week by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This marks a 2.6 percent increase over the previous annual record for worldwide military expenditures in 2017.

Most notably, US military spending increased by 4.6 percent in 2018, to $649 billion, the first annual US spending hike recorded by SIPRI since 2011. This trend is set to continue, with President Donald Trump having signed a $686 billion budget for 2019 and requesting $718 billion for the Pentagon in 2020. The Congressional Budget Office projects that if current funding trends continue, the US will spend $7 trillion on its military over the next decade, equivalent to the amount which will be spent on education, infrastructure and public health programs combined.

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Macron moves to prosecute journalists who revealed French arms sales in Yemen war

▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/26/macr-a26.html

Intéressant, dans une société où le journalisme fait naufrage (en mode câlins au pouvoir), que Macron s’attaque brutalement aux seul·es journalistes digne de ce nom.

Macron moves to prosecute journalists who revealed French arms sales in Yemen war
By Will Morrow
26 April 2019

In a far-reaching assault on democratic rights and free speech, the government of Emmanuel Macron is moving to prosecute journalists who have exposed both France’s complicity in Saudi Arabia’s illegal war in Yemen as well as the Macron government’s efforts to cover it up.

The government’s actions are a response to the publication of a report on April 15 by the journalistic organization Disclose, in partnership with The Intercept, Radio France, Mediapart, Arte Info and Konbini. The report includes an internal intelligence report to the president and leading ministers from September last year with precise information on the use of French arms in Yemen. It proves that the Macron government’s claims that it had no evidence that French arms were being used in the war, which has killed tens of thousands of civilians, were lies.

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Leaked documents implicate French government in war crimes in Yemen - World Socialist Web Site

▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/26/frye-a26.html

Leaked documents implicate French government in war crimes in Yemen
By Kumaran Ira
26 April 2019

Disclose, an independent investigative media, published on April 15 a devastating report exposing France’s role in the Saudi-led coalition’s war crimes in Yemen. The coalition has massacred thousands of civilians in operations using weapons supplied by France, Britain, the United States and other countries. Yet top French officials continued to deny this in public, issuing bald-faced lies contradicted by their own intelligence briefings.

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