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Today, MP @jennykwan.bsky.social announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

BREAKING: Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal

Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🧵 Originally began in part to inform U.S. security assistance, the delayed latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is now available, with expectation that much is no longer included. As reactions come in, we'll add to this thread. www.state.gov/reports/2024...

New report from @cpteams.bsky.social finds that Turkish strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan decreased by 97% over prior months following the onset of the PKK's disarmament process cptik.org/reports-1/20...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns. Big question is what this means for the largest chunk of their arms exports: warships. www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.

New from @yasmineahmed.bsky.social/@hrw.org: "Under British and Int. law, arms licensing should be suspended if there's a “clear risk” that arms might be used... to facilitate serious violations of IHL. That threshold hasn’t just been crossed, it has been bulldozed." www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Measures to Block Israel Arms Sale a Choice: Uphold U.S. Law or Arm Atrocities SAM Director Ari Tolany responds to Senate efforts to block Trump’s proposed arms sales to Israel, including 1,000-pound bombs, joint direct attack munitions & automatic rifles. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

🚨 The US has quietly deployed nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time since the end of the Cold War. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nuclear-th...

"[Trump] said that the bloc would also be “purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment,” but did not provide a specific dollar amount" www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/t...

Winnipeg’s hidden role in the global arms trade canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Despite Trump's comments suggesting otherwise, the Desert Viper and light armoured vehicle are actually one and the same, with the Desert Viper being the specific LAV-700 model Qatar is rumoured to be considering for procurement from Canadian industry, pictured below (photo credit: Stew Magnuson)

Qatar’s long-rumoured purchase of Canadian-made light armoured vehicles (LAVs) may be moving forward as part of Trump’s earlier-announced $42B Qatar-US defense deal (No Congressional notice explicitly mentioning the LAVs has been published yet) breakingdefense.com/2025/05/trum...

"The Committee noted that, by providing military aid... the US and Canada “could be enabling racial discrimination, racial segregation and apartheid by Israel” in breach of obligations under the Int. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

Belgian court orders Flanders to halt the transit and transshipment of arms to Israel through Flemish territory www.belganewsagency.eu/belgian-cour...

"Golden Dome Explained: Ambition, Reality, Risk" from @jessicawestphd.bsky.social and Kat Barrett @ploughsharesca.bsky.social ploughshares.ca/wp-content/u...

Pleased to note that our publication “Fanning the Flames” @ploughsharesca.bsky.social is cited in the recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

NEW: Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Export Permits To Israel This Year. Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized new exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, marking an unprecedented step backward in humanitarian disarmament. 🔗 Read the full press release: bit.ly/3Tmhqbj #MineFreeWorld #ProtectMineBan

New report "Transparency in European Arms Exports: Access to information and accountability" by @tmcasser.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam Law Clinics www.asser.nl/about-the-as...

The US Federal Procurement Data System has been updated with the US$265 million contract for General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to supply 150 flat-bottom-hull Stryker armoured vehicles to Bulgaria via the US Foreign Military Sales program www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/sea...

A group of nonprofits lost a legal battle to prevent Britain from exporting fighter jet parts to Israel, after judges said Monday that the issue should be decided by the government rather than the courts.

US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says Pentagon assessment

My latest with @ploughsharesca.bsky.social "Canada again shipping UAV sensors to Türkiye" 1/ ploughshares.ca/canada-again...

My latest with @ploughsharesca.bsky.social "Canada again shipping UAV sensors to Türkiye" 1/ ploughshares.ca/canada-again...

Iran launches missile attack on U.S. base in Qatar www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

1/ Our new investigation on unprecedented civilian harm caused by the U.S.’ latest campaign in Yemen covered by The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

As the widening of the conflict in the Middle East becomes increasingly likely, Raytheon Technologies' stock soars to all-time www.investing.com/news/company...

As #Israel already started and now the US likely to follow to strike nuclear facilities in #Iran, here's what the US said on Russia bombing nuclear facilities in #Ukraine. Bombing nuclear facilities is and remains a really bad idea usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a...

Turki Al-Jasser was a prominent Saudi journalist who wrote on sensitive issues, including women’s rights, the Arab Spring, and corruption. He contributed to the now-shuttered Saudi newspaper Al-Taqrir and his personal blog between 2013 and 2015. cpj.org/2025/06/saud...

These US arms sales to the UAE, cast by Senator Chris Murphy as part of a 'brazenly corrupt' series of transactions between US and Emirati gov'ts, include Canadian-made L3Harris Wescam MX-15Hdi EO/IR sensors, presumably to be affixed to the CH-47F Chinook helos mentioned earlier in the resolution

Ventes d’armes canadiennes : Israël en baisse, l’Arabie et l’Inde en hausse via @raniamassoud.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’ www.readthemaple.com/canada-sold-...

In March, we published a report indicating that a Canadian Crown corp was awarded a contract through the US DOD to ship 155mm artillery propellants to Israel. When asked by journalists, then–Foreign Minister Joly dismissed our findings as “false information” Now from @readthemaple.bsky.social:

☎️ “Call your allies when they violate the rules of war and demand that they stop. The moment to pick up the phone is now” @icrc.org president told Security Council today www.icrc.org/en/statement...

EU condemns Israel over ‘warning shots’ fired at diplomatic delegation "The diplomats included delegates from the EU, France, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Russia, China and elsewhere, according to the Palestinian Authority, which organized the visit." www.politico.eu/article/isra...

"Almost immediately, the $110 billion figure was viewed with skepticism. A deeper look revealed that the number reflected a generous collection of past and prospective deals, with very little representing binding commitments." www.stimson.org/2025/the-lar...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the government will scale back transparency around military aid to Ukraine “Under my leadership, the debate about arms deliveries, calibers, weapons systems and so on will be taken out of the public eye” www.kyivpost.com/post/52421

Video shows drone debris in Lahore after Pakistan’s army said it shot down 12 drones during an overnight Indian attack against several sites, killing one civilian and wounding four soldiers while targeting military positions.

This is a breaking news story, more details to follow.

Canadian-made INKAS Sentry APC (top image) seen in Jakarta in March, deployed by Indonesia’s 'Koopssus' SOF unit during debates over a controversial bill to greatly expand military powers in civilian affairs, sparking national protests Pre-markup original image credits found in the image alt text

"Open Markets: Documenting Arms Availability in Afghanistan under the Taliban" via @smallarmssurvey.bsky.social www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/defaul...

Independent monitors report rising civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. A @nytimes.com visual investigation examined one strike, likely by U.S. warplanes, that reportedly killed 68 African migrants in a Saada (صَعْدَة) detention center.

The Trump gov’s move to raise the threshold for Congressional review of arms sales undermines not just oversight but vital transparency. Congressional arms sale notifications allow civil society and media to track US arms transfers, including to serial rights abusers www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Early in a new piece on Türkiye’s UAV program: breaking from usual practice, Baykar promo footage of the Bayraktar Akıncı didn’t blur the UI visible in EO/IR sensor feeds (red in left image), allowing geolocation of the UAV to the Eşek Islands in the Gulf of Saros (right image, Google Earth/Airbus)