Shadow World Investigations

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...

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...

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

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 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

#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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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

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...

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...

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-...

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...

"We are witnessing a race to the bottom in German and European arms export policy with more and more taboos being dropped" - I wish I had a more hopeful message to share with @forumarmstrade.bsky.social's "Arms Trade Issues in Europe in 2025" panel last week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfhI...