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Monstrous Anger of the Guns 'Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity's urge to commit suicide. Read it!' Yanis Varoufakis 'Devastating tes...

You have 48 hours to get your free e-copy of Monstrous Anger of the Guns, the @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social book about how the arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it! www.plutobooks.com/978074535036...

An urgent and essential report by @franceskalbs.bsky.social 'From economy of occupation to economy of genocide', exposing the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project. Please read and share!
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Between Gaza and (Re)Armament Panel featuring Jeremy Corbyn, Francesca Albanese, Ahmed Alnaouq and others on the arms trade, the rule of law, and Europe's moral standing

Register here for this event co-hosted with @soasicop.bsky.social, @caatuk.bsky.social & ENAAT. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-ga... 2/2

Join us June 13th with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social @franceskalbs.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social to discuss how we can break the downward spiral of militarisation, skyrocketing arms exports, and unaccountability for war crimes & genocide. 1/2

Ever wondered how money laundering really works?

#corruption #moneylaundering #armstrade

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'I just don't buy it.'

Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel.

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Bear in mind the excruciating detail that civil society experts are required to give, to even make the case for considering restrictions on arms exports. But the state just gets to say “international peace and security” and the legal system and public opinion are supposed to just accept it

There is NO meaningful detail of ANY “alleged damage” to int. peace & security - it’s all in the closed papers. Only Special Advocates & judge can see those. Observers will scour the eventual judgment for insight. But this is carte blanche exercise of state power. What work is law doing here?

It’s hard to overstate this: the govt is saying that “the alleged damage to international peace and security” that suspending F35 parts might have was “a matter of such gravity … that it would have overridden” any serious breaches of IHL in Gaza

Anna Stavrianakis outside the High Court this morning as Al-Haq and @glanlaw.bsky.social challenge the UK government over the continued export of arms making their way to Israel. The judicial review spanning four days will focus on the carve-out for F-35 jet parts.

Norway’s ‘ethical’ wealth fund divests from Israel’s largest petrol station chain, Paz. A welcome move—but no smokescreen for its stake in half of the top 100 arms firms, many fuelling Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
#DivestFromGenocide #Gaza

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10% for All An international call to reduce military spending

The 10% for All campaign challenges excessive military spending & demand the reallocation of resources toward social, environmental, & community-based priorities that benefit everyone. Together, we envision a world where public funds are invested in people, not war.
Learn more: 10percentforall.org

#UnravellingTuesday | Tulip Siddiq accused of aiding her aunt, deposed #Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, in brokering a corrupt $12.65B nuclear deal with Russia - tied to a $1B arms deal.

$5B were allegedly embezzled from construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. ⬇️

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Investments and spending on the arms industry in order to provide jobs and strengthen the economy is a complete fallacy.

Monstrous Anger of the Guns, available now!

#armstrade

The revelations of ongoing transfers by Germany of components for fighting vehicles, other arms & ammo to Israel comes just in time for the submission of the arguments to the ICJ on 21 July 2025 in the case accusing Germany of complicity in Israel's atrocity crimes and grave breaches of int'l law.

New Briefing: Germany supplied fighting vehicle parts and other arms to Israel throughout 2024 - Shadow World Investigations For the first time, data analysed by Shadow World Investigations (SWI) reveals exports of arms and weapons components from Germany to Israel occurred throughout 2024. Germany does not publish its real...

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Israel stands accused of genocide. Every day, hundreds of people are being murdered in Gaza. Germany has an obligation under domestic and international law not to facilitate these crimes and yet it continues to send weapons. It's time to #StopArmingIsrael

Israel also imported millions worth of other arms and ammunition from Germany. Yet, this is not even the full picture as information that can be gathered from customs data is very limited.

Germany supplied fighting vehicle components to Israel every month except November of 2024.

By analysing Israeli import customs data, we were able to get a rare glimpse of some of the arms delivered to Israel last year.

For a few months in 2024, it looked like Germany had slowed down its licensing for arms exports to Israel. But at the end of the day, what matters are arms deliveries. And Germany does not publish what arms are actually delivered.

🔴BREAKING: SWI can reveal Germany supplied arms to Israel throughout 2024. This includes 3.7 million Euros worth of fighting vehicle components.

Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza

Launching today in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social: Unredacted's Yemen War Project, the largest collection of publicly available material related to UK involvement in the war in Yemen since 2015.🧵
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Arms Deal Justice

Open Secrets and @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social made a complaint to the JSC about the conduct of Judges Seriti and Musi in the infamous Seriti Commission into the Arms Deal, that deliberately whitewashed the affair.
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Open Secrets and Shadow World Investigations in court to hold arms deal judges accountable Open Secrets and Shadow World Investigations are in the South Gauteng High Court arguing that retired judges should be held to account for misconduct they committed while in active service.

The courts have clearly upheld the importance of properly holding retired judges to account for their conduct while in active service. Open Secrets and @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social was an important part of securing this precedent.

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2024 Annual report: shadowworldinvestigations.org/shadow-world...

It's here!👀 The SWI 2024 annual report is out now and available on our website or through the link below.
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Shadow World Investigations Annual Report 2024 - Shadow World Investigations This report lays out our main activities and highlights from 2024, including the publication of Monstrous Anger of the Guns and the many ways we held power to account, empowered movements and advocate...

Learn more about institutional partner Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social via their recently launched 2024 annual report @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @ruth4peace.bsky.social @annastavrianakis.bsky.social shadowworldinvestigations.org/shadow-world...

“The [UK military] budget as it stands is larger in real terms than in 1980 at the height of the Cold War.”
 
Khem Rogaly for LBC News on the UK’s decision to increase defence spending.