Anti-vehicle, blunt impact, direct energy, crowd disperse rounds and other electrical non-lethal weapons are currently being manufactured by this industry. Apart from the existing non-lethal weapons technology, a number of new capabilities are being developed, mainly by the U.S.
The global non-lethal weapons market is estimated to be $880.5 million in 2013 and is expected to register a CAGR of 5.42% to reach $1,146.2 million by 2018.
Major Players are BAE Systems, Boeing Company, Brugger & Thomet Ag, Condor Non-Lethal Technologies, Drs Technologies, Inc., Fiocchi, General Dynamics Corporation, Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc., Metal Storm Ltd and Moog.
Protests against the highly controversial GMO crop giant Monsanto and its contemporaries are heating up, and once again South American protesters are making the biggest impact.
UPDATED: From peaceful action to dramatic seizure: a timeline of events since the Arctic Sunrise took action September 18 (CET).
This is a powerful message of peace for humankind and a strong reminder that war only leads to more war. Too much blood has been shed over the years, lives have been destroyed, nations ripped apart by violence.
The decision by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is based on the legal review of Pay Our Military Act, which was signed into law on September 30, 2013 – just hours before the government officially shut down.
By Pepe Escobar
The latest superpower dysfunctional spectacular, aka the US shutdown, has forced President Barack Obama to cancel an entire Asian trip. First the White House announced Obama was shutting down Malaysia and the Philippines – supposed stars of the „pivoting to Asia“.
The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously ‚unimaginable‘ situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation‘s fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable—sometimes radioactive—cancer-causing wastewater.
Five civilians, three of whom were children, were killed in an overnight airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local police said on Saturday. NATO has said it does not know anything about the victims.
Vor gut einem Jahr erst entdeckt, begeisterte der Komet C/2012 S1 (ISON) von Anfang an die Astronomen. Der Grund: Es ist kein periodischer Komet, der sich regelmäßig beobachten ließe. Vermutlich ist es sogar das erste Mal, dass ISON, aus der Oortschen Wolke am Rand des Sonnensystems kommend, eine Bahn durchs innere Sonnensystem zieht.
Präsident Obamas dramatische Überschätzung der Fähigkeit seiner Administration betonend, der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit einen Krieg gegen Syrien zu verkaufen, haben israelische Regierungsverteter enthüllt, dass sie von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika am 31. August kontaktiert und ihnen mitgeteilt wurde, dass ein Angriff unmittelbar bevorstehe und in den kommenden „24-48“ Stunden beginnen würde.
Über Obama sagt er, dieser habe „nichts zu bieten als Lügen“. Dagegen bezeichnet er die Russen als „wahre Freunde“. „Die verstehen viel besser, worum es hier wirklich geht.“ Deutschland hält er geeignet für eine Vermittlerrolle in Europa: „Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Gesandte aus Deutschland nach Damaskus kämen, um mit uns über die wahren Verhältnisse zu sprechen.“
„Nach unserer Schätzung geht es um ein Jahr oder etwas länger. Unsere Vermutungen sind konservativer als die der israelischen Aufklärung“, sagte Obama am Samstag auf einer Pressekonferenz nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters.
For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists.
Hier ist mein kostenloser Vorschlag, um diese Kampange auf die Spitze zu treiben.
Albig: Das ist kein Selbstzweck / Gabriel lobt Merkel und Seehofer als »außerordentlich verlässlich«
(21.07.2013) Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: „The Americans are untrustworthy and illogical and they are not honest in their dealings.“
He added: „The positions that have been adopted by American officials over the past few months confirm once again that it is necessary to avoid being optimistic about them.“
Residents of a Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of Israeli, spent tear gas canisters, to honor those killed during their weekly protests against the separation barrier.
The village of Bil’in, 12 kilometers west of Palestinian de-facto capital Ramallah, has recently become a symbol of peaceful resistance to the Israeli settlement program.
„We are sceptical of Americans and have no trust in them at all. The American government is untrustworthy, arrogant, illogical and a promise-breaker. It‘s a government captured by the international Zionism network.“
„Our assessment continues to be a year or more away, and in fact, actually our estimate is probably more conservative than the estimates of Israeli intelligence services,“ Obama said in reply to a question about the US intelligence assessment on Iran‘s timetable for nuclear weapons.
Ireland voted to retain its upper house of parliament on Saturday, rejecting Prime Minister Enda Kenny‘s call to scrap a chamber where the likes of William Butler Yeats once sat but the government saw as redundant.
A road rage attack by bikers that left a New York motorist injured was witnessed by at least one undercover police officer riding with them who did not intervene and then waited three days before reporting his presence, it was claimed on Saturday.
Jude Law and Damon Albarn have joined a demonstration in central London against Russia‘s detention of 30 Greenpeace activists following a protest at an Arctic oil rig.
A District of Columbia police spokesman says a man who set himself on fire on the National Mall has died of his injuries.
Called the „Red Napoleon,“ he stood out as the leader of a ragtag army of guerrillas who wore sandals made of car tires and lugged their artillery piece by piece over mountains to encircle and crush the French army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The unlikely victory, which is still studied at military schools, not only led to Vietnam‘s independence but also hastened the collapse of colonialism across Indochina and beyond.
Einblick in das perverse Treiben der „Regierungsjuristen“ in Washington. (Leider nur auf Englisch)
Abu Draa, who lives in Sinai, freelances for multiple Egyptian and foreign newspapers and television channels.
It was unclear when Abu-Draa would be released. The suspension runs for three years, meaning that if he commits another offense in this period, he would be punished for both.
Whilst in exile, his wife Hong Anh was tortured and executed in a French Prison in 1939. His sister and father were also killed by French colonial forces.
Am 3. Oktober wurde in Washington ein unbewaffneter Zivilist während eines Manövers unter Leitung des U.S.-Militärs erschossen. Name des Zivilisten: Miriam Carey.