British high-street banks, including two institutions that were bailed out by taxpayers, are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that manufacture cluster bombs – despite a growing global ban outlawing the production and trade of the inherently...

The decade since 9/11 saw a massive expansion of the Pentagon's capacities and the defense industry's profits. In the past, such wartime expansions subsequently shrank for peacetime, and the military industrial complex is preparing for cutbacks. But another thing 9/11...