After the Great Lockdown, far-sighted global cooperation will be heralded and lauded as wise

With our allies in the United States and Europe, Canada faces an economic crisis and worldwide depression; apparently long-term government budgets will need massive amounts of public money to boost recovery in critical sectors such as basic income, development, education, employment, energy, and health.

In an appeal released last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19: 'The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war,' he said. 'It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.'Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY Erika Simpson

May 25, 2020

The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs has just released a report, Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending as a follow-up to its 2019 report on

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