We undertake path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and excessive militarism, predominantly in the global arms trade
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🚨 We recommend the Parliamentary Inquiry scrutinise the relationship between the government and arms industry on the basis of influence over policy, and the disabling of accountability mechanisms
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Sign the petition to get an inquiry into British support for Israel’s operations in Gaza: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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CASE UPDATES | #ANGOLAGATE
The Angolagate scandal erupted in #France in 1999, exposing a covert arms-trading network that supplied the Angolan government during its renewed civil war against UNITA rebels.
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A British drone company backed by MoD funding is now owned by a US defence group whose defence arm is led by former Mossad chief David Barnea.
That same group is developing attack drones for Israel.
My investigation for @BylineTimes:
bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/m…
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1/5 A British drone manufacturer backed by UK defence funding has been bought by a US company now developing attack drones for Israel.
Our investigation for Byline Times raises serious questions about where British military technology could end up. 🧵
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Excellent and disturbing new report from @EndCorruptionUK based on over 40 FOI requests.
Spotlight has found that UK govt ministers have held 137 meetings about Data Centres and AI growth zones between June 2024 and June 2026... but they didn't meet a single environmental group.
Government met only two community groups - but only AFTER the government had approved growth zones in their communities.
At the same time, Spotlight found that 38 government officials had left to take positions at AI and tech firms.
Spotlight is (correctly) calling for a halt on the approval of new AI and Data Centre Development zones until there has been a proper national consultation on community and environmental impacts. In other countries, these consultations have led to important new regulations to enforce environmental protections.
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❓Did you know that 86% of documented corruption cases in the Corruption Tracker involve a seller ranked as one of the “30 Least Corrupt” nations?
➡️ Read the full report Tracing Corruption now: worldpeacefoundation.org
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My recent interview on Politics Joe, explaining how the US, UK & EU could stop the killing in Gaza within a couple of weeks. By stopping arms supplies to Israel. By not doing so they are complicit in the slaughter
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Finland’s plan to acquire one million landmines threatens to reverse decades of humanitarian progress aoav.org.uk/2026/finland-one…
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Three years ago today Israel killed my family.
I shall not forgive or forget.
I will keep their memory alive.
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The arms industry ranks these companies as “anti-corruption”, but they each appear in multiple corruption cases in the Corruption Tracker.
🔍 Uncover the cases for yourself: corruption-tracker.org
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Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen has plunged millions into a humanitarian crisis. Instead of ending its involvement, the UK is doubling down.
Read the letter we organised on behalf of ten unions calling on the UK to end military cooperation with the KSA:
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/tra…
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Can’t wait to be talking across the UK on the ‘Welfare Not Warfare Tour’. We’ll hear from workers & activists involved in the protests across Europe
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Anduril will soon be taking all the billion-dollar contracts for autonomous weapons from Western governments like Australia and across Europe, locking our "security" even further into the US tech-bro mentality of warmongers like Palmer Luckey
@wagepeaceau
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Isembard is a new weapons company whose mission is “building the industrial base of the West”.
Their new London factory based in Southwark produces components for drones, missiles, jet engines, and submarines.
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Detailed and acute review of Making A Killing, the new book from my SWI colleagues (with a little help from me). Very excited this will be out in November, and that people will get to hear from a new generation of incredible investigators: Ruth Rohde and Jack Cinamon.
In Making a Killing, the authors argue that “the arms trade is the backbone of state power under US hegemony", with Israel and Saudi Arabia representing two “strategic poles” of maintaining US power in the Middle East
📚 Book review by Fleur Hargreaves
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In the US targeting of Osama bin Laden, there was a set civilian casualty threshold of 30. In Gaza, it was reportedly 15-20 civilians per junior Hamas member, over 100 civilians for a senior official, and 300 civilians were approved as collateral to kill commander Ayman Nofal.
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Substack Alert 🚨 | This piece by our next guest author, Lillian Mauldin, is sadly ever so relevant. Mauldin digs into what US police militarization in the age of Trump’s ICE raids mean for us all.
💻For more, check it all out our Substack - OUT NOW: armstradect.substack.com/p/u…
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Naza is an incredible film. Unflinching, suffocating, devastating.
The ongoing Gaza genocide is undeniable at this point. Undeniable.
There must be justice.
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Israeli spyware targeted "hundreds of millions" through zero-click ads, researchers find. Millions of people have been affected, including Al Jazeera devices, by first-ever zero-click spyware delivered through advertisements
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