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NEW: Protest Injunctions: A Brief History of Corporate Lawfare - reveals how injunctions are being increasingly used by private companies to curtail protests and protect their interests and profits
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🚨BREAKING NEWS!

Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.

The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.

Read more here:
healthforxr.com

Today's decision is, however a massive vindication of all those who argued the ban was a deliberate attempt to silence and criminalise the dissenting voices of campaigners trying to save lives by shutting down the suppliers of Israeli genocide.

The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.

BREAKING: Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful

Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example Company SnapshotShield AI is a US defence tech startup specialising in AI.

As part of a joint series with @privacyinternational.org, we've published a company profile about defence-tech startup Shield AI.

Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...

Dual-use tech: the Airbus example Company snapshotAirbus SE (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies by multiple metrics (market cap, revenue and profit) and is the product of decades of mergers between Europe...

Together with @privacyinternational.org, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles.

This time, we looked into one of the world's largest aerospace companies: Airbus.

Read the full profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...

Dual-use tech: the Airbus example Company snapshotAirbus SE (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies by multiple metrics (market cap, revenue and profit) and is the product of decades of mergers between Europe...

Together with @privacyinternational.org, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles.

This time, we looked into one of the world's largest aerospace companies: Airbus.

Read the full profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...

Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example Company SnapshotShield AI is a US defence tech startup specialising in AI.

As part of a joint series with @privacyinternational.org, we've published a company profile about defence-tech startup Shield AI.

Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...

Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directly awarded a £240.6 million contract to US technology company Palantir to continue to licence and support its data analytics work.…

ICYMI: Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir

Further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down

Further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down.

Note on Infographic 1 (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/contract extension is unknown, that contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend.

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...

www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations

Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert

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Check out the @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on the @rcn.org.uk's link to companies complicit in genocide!

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Read this highlight of the NEW divestment report from Nurses 4 Palestine's on the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) investment managers.

"The report points to a list of companies held by the RCN's fund managers, including U.S. tech firm Palantir and Israeli arms-maker Elbit Systems"

@rcn.org.uk

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Pro-Palestinian activists pressure UK nursing union over investment policy Royal College of Nursing members press for change of fund managers over potential human rights risks.

EXCLUSIVE from @roneilll.bsky.social at @politico.com on the Royal College of Nursing's investment in companies complicit in genocide. Based on a NEW report by grassroots campaign group, Nurses 4 Palestine.

@rcn.org.uk

www.politico.eu/article/pro-...

🔥Happy new year from CW!

Looking for a change for 2026? If you have research skills and a burning desire to build a world beyond capitalism, then check out our job #vacancy! 👇 Closes 1st Feb! corporatewatch.org/corporate-wa...

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Corporate Watch is hiring! Anti-capitalist researcher vacancy - Corporate Watch Job Description  Corporate Watch is looking to hire an anti-capitalist researcher and writer to investigate corporate power in support of movements fighting for social justice. Help us spread the word...

We're hiring! Anti-capitalist researcher #vacancy

👉Would you like to use strategic research skills to support movements fighting inequality, war and ecocide? Would you like to work for a small workers' coop?

Then get in touch! Closing date 1st Feb. corporatewatch.org/corporate-wa...

NEW Substack blog by the excellent NHS Analysts Together - part of the No Palantir in the NHS campaign.

Recommended reading for campaigners interested in Palantir, the Federated Data Platform and the NHS
nhsdataanalyststogether.substack.com/p/understand...
@medact.bsky.social @justtreatment.org

Investigating dual-use technology and the darker side of innovation We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are…

By profiling a handful of such companies, we show how “innovation” can serve power as much as progress.

Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...

Drones, AI, autonomous systems — technologies marketed as solutions for safety and efficiency are increasingly designed for surveillance and warfare.

This series isn’t meant to be a full exposé. Instead it’s a glimpse into how dual-use technologies are reshaping our societies.

What do Anduril Industries and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have in common?

Both sit at the intersection of innovation and militarisation.

Our new series with @corporatewatch.bsky.social begins with their stories.

Publicly-funded slum landlordism: the case of Clearsprings, Cromwood & NACCS - Corporate Watch The system for housing asylum seekers in the UK sees the country divided into regional fiefdoms controlled by Mears Group, Serco and Clearsprings Ready Homes, through a set of decade-long contracts ag...

🔊NEW REPORT: Who profits from squalid asylum housing?

This new @corporatewatch.bsky.social lays bare the ugly profiteering and exploitation of people who are seeking safety and protection.

Let's meet the profiteers. Essential reading 👇

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As they say, follow the money (and stop scapegoating migrants)!

We were proud to play a very small role in contributing to this excellent investigation.

Cromwood, one of Clearsprings' housing subcontractors, appears to be building a vast property portfolio while asylum seekers residing in its properties report dire conditions.

Produced in collaboration with @violationtrackeruk.bsky.social

@migrantsorganise.bsky.social @refugeeaction.bsky.social @ramfel.bsky.social

*NEW* Publicly-funded slum landlordism: the case of Clearsprings, Cromwood & NACCS

👉Our report with shows the soaring profits & burgeoning property portfolios of asylum accommodation subcontractors

👉Company owners get rich while residents live in squalor

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