The Pentagon says AI is the future of U.S. military dominance. History says otherwise. In a new piece at @inkstickmedia.com, William Hartung and I unpack the rush to roll out military AI at “wartime speed,” and why sidelining oversight should worry us all. 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/the-pentagon...

We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

Nor are we surprised that many male colleagues will continue to insist that sex, gender and race are irrelevant to politics

The fabulous @declassifieduk.org team in action! Great to hear them talk first hand about their work

Two postdocs and a graduate research assistant position at Sussex with @lindsaycclark.bsky.social on "Technology and the (future) Human in War"! Postdoc: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...; RA: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b62df692... - apply by 11 Feb!

👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social

Colleagues overseas, check this out:

@tkbarnes.bsky.social is a superb journalist: and I love this latest post of revealing tidbits. I agree that "every day is a day to report on and read about the people and places tied up in the $1 trillion Pentagon budget"! inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal...

UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales with Israel and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire 👇

Brilliant research from Open Secrets in South Africa: UAE selling armoured vehicles to Sudan, DRC, as 'made in the UAE' but actually South African-designed, built by South African engineers using South African parts, in Emirati free zones - www.opensecrets.org.za/how-an-sa-ar...

British-made weapons were used by the US to attack Venezuela on 3rd January. Starmer, instead of condemning these violations of international law, cheered it on. Shameful.

Thanks to @pollypw.bsky.social and Judith Koch for this conversation! Great to talk all things arms trade for an hour.

How you manufacture consent.

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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

🧵Collection of concerns expressed about US actions in #Venezuela today (Jan 3, 2026) -- from Congress, civil society, and others. Feel free to share and add on. (The Forum does not take responsibility for these statements. It does share them for public awareness)

It's terrifying that today might be the day a hunger striker dies - allowed to die by the state, for demanding a fair trial: www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

This, with Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah, looks amazing. Can’t wait to listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

SGR’s campaigner Laura Shewan documents how UK universities are clamping down on student protests while deepening ties with the arms industry. www.sgr.org.uk/resources/di... 🧪

Wanna figure out why the world is such a mess? Join us to study and find out! Online Sussex open day 29 November - www.sussex.ac.uk/study/visit-...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

A case was brought against UK arms exports to Israel by Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq & the Global Legal Action Network, but High Court judges refused their case. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social explains why the government was taken to court. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...

When peace and security mean arming genocide. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, explains why the UK government was taken to court over arms sales to Israel, and makes the case for a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org

Today! I am delighted to be a fellow of the TSP - tune in to hear what the project is all about!

Why we need a two-way arms embargo on Israel: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

And for our Italian-speaking friends! www.vignarca.net/2025/09/lett...

1/ 🧵 shadowworldinvestigations.org/statement-in... This letter, out today, has been endorsed by a number of experts listed by the Forum on the Arms Trade. The Forum itself does not take positions. Partial list of endorsers includes:

Hundreds and hundreds of protesters at the DSEI arms fair today, of all ages, races, genders and faiths, making their presence felt as the suited and booted, mostly male, mostly white delegates went for their big jolly - www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest...

Police have charged a further 46 more people with supporting the banned campaign group Palestine Action, bringing the total facing prosecution related to protests in London to 114.

Centrism isn't an obstacle to fascism or a bulwark against it. It's a welcome mat. There's no point telling people "It's Starmer or Farage" when the dynamic at work here is plainly Starmer *and* Farage. "Labour or Reform" makes as much sense at this point as "Vichy or the Third Reich".

NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...

This made my day today. Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk

Excellent short read - especially pertinent as flags are going up in Brighton and, crucially, being taken down again by anti-fascists

Saturday afternoon be like 💪

Huge victory for public pressure on the British government as genocidal rogue state Israel pulls out in a huff from the DSEI arms fair. Campaigners that Netpol is speaking to say the next step is to close the entire event down with a blockade on 9 September www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Classic UK govt move: there is a useful fiction of the separation between arms companies and governments. So the UK gets to look like it did something good while materially enabling the bad stuff to happen and letting the Israeli govt cry wolf about how badly it’s treated.

Starmer's government bans Israeli officials but not Israeli arms companies. Says it all about Starmer.

3/ Poland notification is labeled as F-35. And the UK Globemaster notification comes after the courts there ruled to allow it to continue to provide parts into the F-35 pool (see @annastavrianakis.bsky.social for some background onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) Might there be a connection?

This is the even darker dimension to Russia's pro-natalism push, including paying schoolgirls to have babies. Putin's Russia is obsessed with demographics and the composition of Russia's population. This demonstrates an intense focus on preventing Ukrainian society from growing.

I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

The three best ideas I’ve had for how to organise my book have come when I’m 1) not sitting at the computer and 2) physically moving. Apparently the body isn’t just a receptacle for the brain.

Greek people blocking Israelis from leaving a cruise ship in Syros, Greece. People support Palestine governments support genocide

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.

OK @pcsunion.bsky.social members in the Home Office, let's go! "Are they really going to prosecute as terrorists everyone who expresses support for Palestine Action’s work to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel as it commits war crimes?" Time to get organised! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...