Sometimes tweets arms trade related stuff in 🇩🇪& 🇬🇧. Co-author "Making a Killing". Researcher @ShadowWorldInv ; @ArmsTradeCT ; Personal views. she/her🏳️🌈
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🇩🇪 is about to send another submarine to 🇮🇱. As I told Al Jazeera: "Israel has used German ships to fire at Gaza, to blockade and starve Gaza, and is using submarines to station nuclear weapons. (...) this export would give Israel another tool in its arsenal of mass destruction."
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'Israel is creating networks of governments, companies and defence establishments that have something tangible to lose from a serious rupture in relations'
“Israel is trying to move from being an arms exporter to becoming part of other countries’ defence industrial bases,” Andreas Krieg, associate professor of security studies at King’s College London, told MEE.
“That is a much more powerful position. If Elbit simply manufactures a system in Israel and sells it to Romania or Britain, the relationship remains essentially transactional,” he said.
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🇵🇸🇾🇪 BREAKING: The UK government's arms export policies have eviscerated international humanitarian law.
@CAATuk’s new report exposes how the UK arms exports system is fundamentally broken and rigged in favour of pre-determined conclusions.
🔎 caat.org.uk/publications/dea…
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🚨A new report by Campaign Against Arms Trade (@CAATuk) exposes how the UK arms export licensing regime "is fundamentally broken".
The report lays bare how Britain continued to arm Israel and Saudi Arabia while they committed atrocities in Gaza and Yemen👇
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👉 NEW — UK sanctions on Israel result in no extra arms export suspensions
By @jmcevoy_2 & @daniaakkad
Exclusive: Ed Miliband's ‘double lock’ on arms exports to Israel has made no immediate impact on the flow of weaponry to Tel Aviv.
declassifieduk.org/uk-sancti…
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Exclusive: Disclosure comes as Labour’s candidate in Camden faces off with Greens. @pauleholden
Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. declassifieduk.org/labour-co…
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🔴 REPORT LAUNCH: GAZA, YEMEN, AND THE UK’S EVISCERATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Join speakers from @CAATuk @MwatanaEn @GLAN_LAW @ShadowWorldInv at 6pm for the online launch of our new report.
🔗 Register: caat.org.uk/events/report-la…
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With researcher Ruth Rohde, an author to Making a Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen, and the chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights Radhya Al-Mutawakel, we ask why no one and nothing stopped the flow of weapons even as the Yemeni people were killed and starved.
To listen more click on the following link:
player.captivate.fm/episode/…
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So proud of my colleagues at @ShadowWorldInv for this book, the result of years of painstaking research.
Due out in November 2026 but keep an eye out for book launches across the the UK.
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"Making a Killing" could not be more timely...
My reading for today is its chapter on "The Forgotten War: Saudi Arabia and the UAE Wage War in Yemen" - perfect for context on Burnham now renewing Britain's involvement.
Great work by @andrewfeinstein, @jackcinamon and Ruth Rohde.
More info from @VersoBooks
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The language of 'defensive' support is a smokescreen: the PM has committed the UK to this conflict.
Thousands have been killed by the Saudi-led coalition. Weddings hit, markets destroyed. International Humanitarian Law breached.
The UK must not back the murderous Saudi regime.
BREAKING: UK has agreed to provide defensive air support to Saudi Arabia to help counter Houthi fighters and restore stability in the Middle East while driving down the cost of living at home.
Ahead of his first meeting with Donald Trump, Andy Burnham said he’d agreed to a request for air-to-air refuelling of Saudi jets to defend energy infrastructure against the Iran-backed rebels - and help keep oil flowing from the Gulf to ease global economic turmoil.
PM also revealed he will use his first meeting with Trump on Tuesday to urge the US president to de-escalate the conflict in Iran, warning that “dark clouds of global instability” are directly affecting people’s lives all over the world.
The ongoing turmoil in the Middle East has pushed up global energy prices, putting the UK economy under intense inflationary pressure and increasing government borrowing costs to multi-year highs just weeks before a crucial first budget for the new government.
Full story from the PM’s plane ✈️
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Passage from our latest book "Making a Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen". versobooks.com/en-gb/product…
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"Making a Killing" could not be more timely...
My reading for today is its chapter on "The Forgotten War: Saudi Arabia and the UAE Wage War in Yemen" - perfect for context on Burnham now renewing Britain's involvement.
Great work by @andrewfeinstein, @jackcinamon and Ruth Rohde.
More info from @VersoBooks
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Britain continues its pro-war positions and expects different results. Further escalation will not reopen global shipping; Ansar Allah ("Houthi rebels") has not been defeated by any military action.
The only solution is diplomacy.
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This is guaranteed to make the UK complicit in war crimes. It also won't work.
The only sensible approach here is to use every mechanism available to convince the US to end it's mad Iranian misadventure and constrain Israel so it can't go provoking endless regional conflicts.
EXCLUSIVE with @FionamMacDonald
The UK is close to agreeing to provide Saudi Arabia’s military with operational support to counter Houthi fighters, and will lobby other nations to help repel the Iran-backed group
Andy Burnham is minded to offer the Saudi military defensive support after considering requests from Riyadh over the past several days, according to several people familiar with the matter
It would be one of his first significant military decisions since becoming prime minister
Some of the people said it could include things like aerial refuelling. One stressed the importance of the Middle East returning to stability, especially in light of Houthis attacks on Saudi and threats to a key shipping route, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Bloomberg reported last week that the UK was considering requests from Riyadh for a range of diplomatic and military support
Burnham has also agreed that the UK government will lobby other nations to also offer support for Saudi Arabia against the Houthis, the people said
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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US strikes on alleged drug boats could be crimes against humanity, says UN bbc.in/4y97RPR
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The Met would not confirm or deny if undercover officers still operate within political groups.
novaramedia.com/2026/09/17/s…
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wenn mit Linken-Wahlerfolgen so umgegangen werden würden wie mit AfD-Wahlerfolgen, würde Friedrich Merz morgen sagen, dass man die „Sorgen der Bürger*innen ernstnehmen muss“ und ab jetzt „endlich konsequent enteignet wird“
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BREAKING: Israeli warplanes have carried out a double-tap strike on southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and another strike on Kfar Tebnit, reports the National News Agency.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/52lgdn
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This is a dangerous escalation by the Houthis who are attacking civilian infrastructure in Saudi in densely populated areas
Though directed by IRGC operatives at times, the Houthis are operating dangerous machinery that is far from reliable with varying degrees of precision
🚨Ansarallah announced that they targeted "sensitive sites" in Riyadh and Aramco facilities in Yanbu overnight using a large number of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones. Saudi Civil Defense alerts were triggered multiple times for 10 different cities and provinces during the attacks.
NASA FIRMS data confirms that fuel storage at the Aramco Central Region Distribution facility was struck and a fire has been burning for several hours. Photos and videos have been circulating online, showing a large smoke column rising from the vicinity of King Khalid International Airport, where the Aramco distribution facility is located.
