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reed elsevier and the arms trade   09.12.2005, 1:19 PM

posted by ben vershbow

They say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. And so I'm pointing to this upsetting story about educational publishing giant Reed Elsevier's complicity in international violence through a subsidiary (Spearhead Exhibitions) that runs one of the world's largest arms fairs. There are the beginnings of a movement for academics and others to demand that R.E. drop this sordid business.

(via Crooked Timber)

Posted by ben vershbow on September 12, 2005 1:19 PM
tags: DSEi, Education, arms, classroom, elsevier, learning, lexisnexis, publishing, reedelsevier, spearhead, spearheadexhibitions, textbook, war, weapons

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