Nick Dearden
@nickdearden.bsky.social
Director of Global Justice Now. Author of Pharmanomics. Opinions my own. #FreePalestine
The EU has de-sanctioned Mikhail Fridman May as well have put out a massive klaxon alert 🚨 to every other sanctioned Russian oligarch to sue using ISDS tribunals right now!
EU removes two Russian billionaires from sanctions list
Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were cut from the blacklist after capitals yielded to lobbying by France behind closed doors.
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If you’re an oligarch who can afford to take an ISDS case, you can even get your sanctions lifted. ISDS is a way of bullying governments and preserving the ‘right’ of money to do what it wants, where it wants, when it wants. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
EU removes two oligarchs from Russia sanctions list as deadline looms
Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman delisted in what Ireland’s EU presidency calls ‘a difficult compromise’ for the bloc
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“We will not allow foreign governments to dictate how we set medicine prices in Germany. The problem is not that prices in Germany are too low. The reality is that drug prices in the US are far too high.” Wish this had been Starmer’s line. www.politico.eu/article/as-t...
As the US investigates German drug prices, here’s why Europe should care
German pharma isn’t the only sector in the firing line: Cars could be hit too.
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Labour Together changed its name but nothing else. Their argument: we can’t nationalise anything because of ISDS But the answer is clear: scrap ISDS. Why does a Labour think tank reckon it’s ok to let foreign investors dictate how we regulate water? 🤦♂️ thinklabour.co.uk/thinking/the...
There is nothing leftwing about nationalising Thames Water • ThinkLabour
ThinkLabour is a think tank working at the heart of British politics to support the Labour movement with research, strategy, and policy development.
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Saudi’s attacks unleashed hell in Yemen. Helping the oil tyrants in their battle with one of world’s poorest countries is totally wrong. And pouring more fuel on the fire of the Trump-Netanyahu war is incredibly dangerous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to give support to Saudi jets in attempt to counter Houthi fighters
Andy Burnham says he will urge Donald Trump to bring an end to conflict with Iran
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All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘A poll released on Wednesday found just 11% of Americans support an AI datacenter being built in their own community, while 65% oppose one – including 52% of Republicans – and 57% say Trump has handled the issue of AI poorly, up seven points since March’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts
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6 parliamentary committee chairs write to the National Audit Office to demand details on how much the Trump-Starmer Pharma deal will cost taxpayers 👏 www.politico.eu/article/brit...
British lawmakers demand probe into cost of Trump NHS deal
The U.K. government has so far refused to publish how much the deal will ultimately cost Britain’s National Health Service.
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Keep pushing. We would not be here without public pressure. www.bbc.com/news/article...
No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told
The growth of AI is happening at lightning pace, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of Scotland being at the forefront?
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Government cannot live in fear of overseas shareholders @labourlewis here on the threat which ISDS poses to Burnham’s agenda. “the moment demands that we remove the shackle on our sovereignty and step away from ISDS for good.” www.newstatesman.com/uncategorize...
Government cannot live in fear of overseas shareholders
We must tackle antiquated trade rules if the state is to revitalise UK industry
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“We must tackle antiquated trade rules to revitalise British industry” Great piece in New Statesman this week - @labourlewis.bsky.social urges Burnham to ditch the corporate court system known as ISDS which threatens to undermine his Manchesterism agenda. www.newstatesman.com/magazine/the...
The World According To Ed
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There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.
The government’s new settlement policy could be pretty big. But it will need to focus on more than imports of fruit. We need to push for proper sanctions on investors in illegal settlements including Israeli banks. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Analysis • Not just factories: The settlement sanctions could hit Israeli banks
Less than 5 percent of Israeli exports come from settlements. But the greater risk lies with Israeli banks, which finance construction in West Bank settlements – and could face sanctions that would al...
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Here’s a good list of companies the Foreign Secretary’s new policy might start with 👇 We cannot be trading with companies profiting from the occupation. m.youtube.com/shorts/k2t2Z...
UK has billions in contracts with firms tied to illegal Israeli settlements | AJ #shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Our response to the Foreign Secretary’s statement: UK’s Israel settlement trade ban “extremely welcome” but must be just the beginning www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/reactio...
REACTION: UK's Israel settlement trade ban "extremely welcome" but must be just the beginning, campaigners say - Global Justice Now
Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now said: The government’s ban on trade with Israel’s illegal settlements is extremely welcome, especially at a time where Israel is ramping up its […]
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Brilliant piece 👇 ‘Britain’s black-clad young men, stripped of security, hope and opportunity by austerity; denied decent housing and jobs, are persuaded instead to protect the capital gains of Silicon Valley’s ‘Big Money” by attacking migrants and undermining democracy’
Ann Pettifor@annpettifor.bsky.social · 2w agoThe hysteria from Israel today is to be expected. Miliband must ignore it. Sanctions are the only way to stop Israel’s war crimes. They will also be popular and legally justified. Today’s announcement needs to be the start of holding Israel to account for decades of atrocities.
Another victory for Musk’s friends. We can only defeat the fascists by dismantling the empires of the monopolists. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Agree with Albanese - a settlement ban is welcome but we must go further. Hope the government will include services and will announce new bans of weapons sales and military coordination tomorrow. The comms is an improvement but we need action. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
UN expert Francesca Albanese calls for ‘true paradigm shift’ as Miliband resets policy on Israel
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on occupied territories says ban on goods from settlements ‘important’ but must go further if it is to amount to more than a ‘press release’
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I remember arguing with many serious commentators about this. Surely Venezuela showed definitively that Trump was mad. No… he said it was about oil. It was about oil. www.ft.com/content/4589...
Controversial Venezuelan executive courts investors after Trump oil deal
Alejandro Betancourt is US’s minority partner in company that will control more than 65bn barrels of oil reserves
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🚨Public funding is being poured into a wartime mine to fuel a global arms race🚨 The UK Government has announced a £71 million investment in the Hemerdon tungsten mine. Demand for tungsten is overwhelmingly driven by the arms and aerospace industries. londonminingnetwork.org/2026/08/uk-g...
UK Government criticised for backing ‘wartime’ tungsten mine in Devon - London Mining Network
The Government has invested £71m in the Hemerdon tungsten mine, a project which will fuel the global arms race.
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The Trump-Starmer Pharma Deal gets worse and worse. To make it work, the government is now about to throw money at Big Pharma even before meds have been properly assessed. No concern for if they’re really effective. This is NHS money. It’s a scandal.
The government still won’t release its impact assessment on the Trump-Starmer Pharma Deal. That’s why we’ve been forced to take legal action. They can’t get away with funnelling billions from the NHS to Big Pharma and not even tell the truth about it. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Ministers refuse to reveal cost details of US-UK drugs trade deal
Government agreed to double spending on medicines for tariff exemptions on exports to the US but MPs want to know financial impact on NHS services
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A key calculation in the government’s decision over Thames Water will be the likelihood of getting sued under ISDS by foreign shareholders. Sadly, the company is overwhelmingly owned by foreign ‘investors’. So the likelihood is high. 🧵 www.thenational.scot/news/2649305...
SNP hit out at Andy Burnham over reported nationalisation U-turn
THE SNP have accused Andy Burnham of making "yet another broken promise" following reports he has shelved plans to bring struggling Thames…
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It’s going to be a hot autumn in Scotland. The movement against data centres is already huge and has come so far. But a moratorium could sink the disastrous AI plans which Starmer agreed with Trump and his Big Tech mates, and force Burnham to rethink. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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The shocking thing here isn’t *only* Trump being a bully. Neoliberal trade deals have been used to threaten local standards, language and culture for many years. We need to change the way we do trade. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
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Nearly 2500 dead of Ebola in DRC now. Very little media attention. Disposable people in a country the West has deliberately impoverished for 150 years while pillaging their vast natural wealth. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo now deadliest in country’s history
At least 2,325 people have died from the virus, according to official data, with outbreak on track to be biggest in history
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