We’re fundraising for our 2026 book Making a Killing - exposing Western complicity and profiteering in the ongoing slaughter in Gaza and Yemen. If you have the capacity, please support this work holding those complicit to account. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/making-a-k...

We’re creating a new book, "Making a Killing", led by Andrew Feinstein, bringing together global experts and people living with the impacts of these weapons every day - but we need your support to make it happen. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/making-a-k...

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...

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...

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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! t.co/tf5gdfhurZ

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 t.co/wlPYCUadgO

'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. Sign up to our Currents newsletter for more from this week's hearing 👉 a.nin.tl/3x

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@annastavrianakis.bsky.social · last yr.

Govt says the “immensely serious and imminent risks to international peace and security” mean it needs to continue allowing F35 parts to go to the global pool and on to Israel. What are these risks? *checks notes* “It would undermine US confidence in the UK and NATO”.

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 t.co/JxAHkoX2Ec

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

10% for All

An international call to reduce military spending

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#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. ⬇️ t.co/cEhTMZST4t

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.

Shadow World Investigations@shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

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.🧵 www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/ye...

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

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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. www.opensecrets.org.za/the-arms-dea...

Arms Deal Justice

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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. www.opensecrets.org.za/open-secrets...

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.

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It's here!👀 The SWI 2024 annual report is out now and available on our website or through the link below. Read about our 2024 highlights and how we are making change💪 And don't forget to sign up to our newsletter for updates straight into your inbox!

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...

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...

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“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.

Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel

Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel

Exclusive: More than 200 civil society groups say governments have failed to prevent planes from being used to violate international law More than 200 organisations worldwide have called on nations involved in producing F-35 fighter jets to “immediately…

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A former UK Foreign Office Official has blown the whistle on the broken UK arms export control system and alleges complicity in war crimes #StopArmingIsrael #StopArmingSaudi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beyond Productions' latest documentary on the business of war titled 'Why the Global Arms Trade is BOOMING in 2025'. Producer Maximilian Wittig youtu.be/07weS6YeKrI?...

Why the Global Arms Trade is BOOMING in 2025

YouTube video by Beyond Productions

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Bob Menendez' and the Egyptian gov.'s actions harmed Egyptians as well as Americans. I. a. the corruption increased meat prices in Egypt! We previously wrote this summary on the allegations he has now been sentenced for (focusing on those related to arms): corruption-tracker.org/case/the-hal...

Robert “Bob” Menendez - US Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until September 22, 2023.

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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2y ago

Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for acting as a foreign agent of Egypt and accepting gold bars and other bribes in what prosecutors said was perhaps the worst corruption case ever involving a US senator

This weekend #PeteHegseth was confirmed as US Secretary of Defense. We have collected everything you never wanted to know about the man with the crusader tattoos and history of service in Guantanamo Bay: corruption-tracker.org/blog/pete-he...

Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense signals the Republican Party’s open embrace of militarism, far-right Christian-evangelican nationalism, and corporate nepotism. Hegseth is a Fox News personality and an avid advocate of the Koch brothers vast far-right political lobbying network . His ideology, rhetoric, and track record reveal a vision of the U.S. military as a tool for imperialist conquest and domestic oppression, wielded with religious fundamentalism and complete disregard for international norms and laws.

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The US State Department's annual fact sheet typically provides the highest $$ that can be found compared to any other source. We have very poor transparency on DCS details, but a bit more on FMS, which the Forum tracks at www.forumarmstrade.org/major-arms-s... viaState: www.state.gov/fiscal-year-...

Fiscal Year 2024 U.S. Arms Transfers and Defense Trade - United States Department of State

Arms transfers and defense trade are important U.S. foreign policy tools with potential long-term implications for regional and global security.  For this reason, the United States follows a holistic ...

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ICYMI: On January 10th a court in Wallonia, Belgium, suspended three arms export licenses to the UAE! Well done campaigners @vredesactie.bsky.social, @liguedroitshumains.bsky.social , CNAPD, @amnestybelgiumfr.bsky.social #KeepEyesOnSudan #BoycottUAE www.brusselstimes.com/1388525/wall...

Wallonia arms sales to UAE: Three export licences suspended by top court

Wallonia's regional leader called for arms licence legislation to be reviewed, adding that it "is not the only region exporting" to the UAE.

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