topic: weapons

Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids
July 20, 2019
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “...
Opinion
Yemen: A death on the Najran Front
February 7, 2018
I woke up late, as usual, my days a mix of sleep, worry and joblessness. I sat in front of the TV trying to catch the latest news on the...
Reviews
Shooting Ourselves: Simulating the Dysfunctional Family of War
December 11, 2016
The opening shots of Christine Cynn’s Shooting Ourselves encapsulates the jarring visual world of the arms industry. The film begins in a...
blog
Photojournalism’s Changing Relationship with Conflict
July 8, 2015
“The Forensic Turn” and “Media and Myth: Mass Media and the Vietnam War” exhibitions, curated by Paul Lowe, Monica Alcazar-Duarte and Ziyah...
blog
The Arms Trade Treaty and South Sudan
July 9, 2014
As the Republic of South Sudan approaches the third anniversary of its independence, the young nation has been making headlines again. This...
retrospectives
From the Barrel of a Gun, Etc.
January 25, 2012
Mao Zedong may actually not have coined the phrase, "Political power flows from the barrel of a gun." It appears in a 1938 text he wrote,...