📅 18 September 2026: The Environmental Politics of War Join SGR’s Dr Nico Edwards and others in a full day workshop exploring how conflict and militarism are destroying the ecosystems and climate that enable life on earth, and what we can do about it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-enviro...

The Environmental Politics of War

This workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict.

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PSA Environmental Politics Specialist Group@psaenvironmental.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've just confirmed the final speakers at our 'Environmental Politics of War' workshop @responsiblesci.bsky.social @paulinesophieh.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social @ritafloyd.bsky.social Join us in September! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-enviro...

This gets to my suspicion of Burnham’s expression of mild regret around Gaza. You’re the party who dragged Britain into Iraq. If you want to show you’re serious about ‘mistakes’ over Gaza then tell me who’s facing arrest or which Israeli arms manufacturers you’re going to kick off British soil.

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 4w ago

israel's unslakeable bloodthirst for destroying civilians and civilian infrastructure has even made donald fucking trump queasy. they are romping around the middle east butchering people, with weapons we pay for, with social safety nets we pay for. the dnc is fine with this!

Coming soon! The @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social team have chronicled the way the west has armed the wars in Yemen and Gaza. Book launch and tour coming end of the year - watch this space

🚨 NEW: Our new analysis has found that the funding settlement issued with the Defence Investment Plan will lead to a net loss in jobs in the UK. 📑 Buying the Dip: The Defence Investment Plan Will Produce Domestic Unemployment Our key findings 🧵👇

Thanks to @politicalquarterly.bsky.social for the opportunity to review Peter Oborne’s excellent “Complicit” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Arming Genocide: Defending the Indefensible

Click on the article title to read more.

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Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is subtended by the violent functions of statecraft. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social www.theindiaforum.in/internationa...

Arms Markets across the World

Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is, in the final es...

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Examples are piling up of how the $1 trillion Pentagon budget is enabling unpopular data centers across the country. Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis + Mississippi (www.democracynow.org/2026/6/17/he...), the Box Elder data center in Utah, and one in Ypsilanti for the Los Alamos nuclear lab.

In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in ...

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Taylor Barnes@tkbarnes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Amazing. Quell outcry over the Box Elder data center by halving the data center and having the rest be a nuclear weapons plant? “a “broader expansion area” will be available for … defense-industrial uses, … similar to what exists on the campuses of Utah-based Northrop Grumman”

It's a full "Week in Arms Trade Publications" newsletter... check it out for recent works and upcoming events @explosiveweapon.bsky.social @minemonitor.bsky.social @iainoverton.bsky.social @brankamarijan.bsky.social @rcw4disarmament.bsky.social + many others mailchi.mp/forumarmstra...

"In a deeply interconnected global arms industry, where divisions between the private and public sector are structurally obscured, alliances and responsibilities become blurred." @annastavrianakis.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · 2mo ago

Everybody needs to read @annastavrianakis.bsky.social on the global arms industry phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

*person studying civil rights movement* I don’t get it, what’s so important about eating lunch at this one place.

#MustRead by @annastavrianakis.bsky.social: Arms markets: a look at the world’s largest military industries phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

Arms Markets | Anna Stavrianakis

A look at the world’s largest military industries

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As of *a month ago*, the US has lost 39 aircrafts in their war on Iran (this is Rep Ed Case speaking to the Pentagon CFO):

👉 NEW — ‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’ By former defence contractor The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor www.declassifieduk.org/i-had-heard-...

‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’

The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor

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UK arms trade: A trifecta of everything that's wrong

Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why.

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Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

Brilliant opportunity

Duncan Bell@duncanbell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Thank you James and Sam and the @lrb.co.uk for a stimulating conversation!

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5mo ago

On the podcast: Sam Jones, European security correspondent at the Financial Times, and Anna Stavrianakis, professor of international relations at the University of Sussex, join @piercepenniless.bsky.social to explore ‘hard power’ and Europe's militarisation: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

🚨BREAKING: The High Court has just ruled the ban on Palestine Action to be UNLAWFUL. Turns out opposing genocide ISN'T terrorism.

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

The Pentagon says AI is the future of U.S. military dominance. History says otherwise. In a new piece at @inkstickmedia.com, William Hartung and I unpack the rush to roll out military AI at “wartime speed,” and why sidelining oversight should worry us all. 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/the-pentagon...

The Pentagon's AI Surge is a Reckless, Unviable Defense Strategy

The US Pentagon has gone all in on artificial intelligence as AI takes a more central role in Washington's defense planning.

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We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre

The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

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Nor are we surprised that many male colleagues will continue to insist that sex, gender and race are irrelevant to politics

Amelia Shevenell@ashevenell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

The fabulous @declassifieduk.org team in action! Great to hear them talk first hand about their work

Two postdocs and a graduate research assistant position at Sussex with @lindsaycclark.bsky.social on "Technology and the (future) Human in War"! Postdoc: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...; RA: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b62df692... - apply by 11 Feb!

👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social

Spotlight on Corruption@spotlightcorruption.org · 7mo ago

💥 Are you an experienced comms pro with a track record of crafting & delivering messages to achieve real change? ✊ Keen to join the fight against #corruption? 🫵 You might be the person we need! We’re looking for a comms adviser to join the friendly Spotlight team. Apply below 👇. Deadline: 14 Feb.

Colleagues overseas, check this out:

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

@tkbarnes.bsky.social is a superb journalist: and I love this latest post of revealing tidbits. I agree that "every day is a day to report on and read about the people and places tied up in the $1 trillion Pentagon budget"! inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal...

The Revealing Tidbits Buried in Defense Contractors' Local Records

Here’s some gems about Northrop Grumman's fire equipment, RTX's ethics and Anduril's wildlife challenges I discovered in public records last year.

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UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales with Israel and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire 👇

Rights groups slam UK pledge to resume Israel arms sales

Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire.

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