"It is not difficult to trace tear gas deployments back to corporate profiteers. Over the last 12 years Turkey has imported 62 tons of tear gases, spending $21 million. The gases being used on protesters are coming from at least two American companies — Defense Technology (in Casper, Wyo.) and Nonlethal Technologies (Homer, Pa.) — as well as one Brazilian company, Condor Non-Lethal Technologies in Rio de Janeiro. Activists and citizen-journalists in Turkey have been recording images identifying tear gas manufacturers over Twitter, Flickr and on blogs — a tactic frequently used in Egypt."
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:55:47 +0000