“Companies like BAE Systems ... rely on public money although they are privately owned, with institutional investors benefitting from surging government spending and direct subsidies for research and development.”

Khem Rogaly in @irishexaminer.bsky.social 👇
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As part of the @transitionsec.bsky.social series on military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats, I wrote about how trade unions are responding to rearmament, genocide and ecological catastrophe. Do check out the other essays!

Cold War on a Warming World The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.

🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.

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Excited to be a fellow @transitionsec.bsky.social with a bunch of brilliant people thinking about the intertwining of militarisation and climate breakdown. Launch event this eve and lots of great stuff to follow!

Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...

‘More than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Women’s Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.’

Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...

For the @lrb.co.uk blog, I wrote about DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, which the UK hosts every 2 years. This year, protests drew attention to the companies profiting from genocide in Gaza, while Starmer met Israeli president Herzog at Downing St. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Too Lammy, Too Late As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and in...

I wrote about David Lammy's newfound outrage over Gaza. Hard to swallow for those of us in his own constituency, where he and Haringey council have consistently ignored our demands for action: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-...

Larry Fink’s 2025 Chairman’s Letter to Investors | BlackRock Larry Fink shares how thinking on retirement can be reshaped, and how expanding access to capital markets can help build a more prosperous future.

Larry Fink's 2025 letter:

we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun.
We shall call this democratizing investment.

www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...

I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.

Mahmoud Muna | A Bookseller and Many Journalists I was shelving some books when the American journalist walked in. Many international reporters have come to Jerusalem...

This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company

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Rebekah Diski | Number One Mission The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that...

Of course they back a third runway at Heathrow. I wrote about Labour's obsession with growth and the madness of airport expansion on the LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Biding Time Bidenomics is catching on in Europe but cost the Democrats the election. A socialist view says: it failed by not going far enough.

I wrote quite a long thing about Bidenomics, contradictions of green growth, and why we shouldn't be so excited by 'the return of industrial policy' for Strange Matters magazine: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...