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Shadow World Investigations

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We undertake path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and excessive militarism, predominantly in the global arms trade. ED: @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social

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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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...
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Book Fundraiser: Making a Killing/Gaza & Yemen
We are writing the book that tells the story of Western complicity and profiteering in the ongoing slaughter in Gaza and Yemen.
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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...
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Book Fundraiser: Making a Killing/Gaza & Yemen
We are writing the book that tells the story of Western complicity and profiteering in the ongoing slaughter in Gaza and Yemen.
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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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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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Ever wondered how money laundering really works? #corruption #moneylaundering #armstrade t.co/wlPYCUadgO
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https://corruption-tracker.org/blog/4755
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New Internationalist @newint.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
'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
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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?
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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.
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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
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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/norway-wealth-fund-divests-israels-paz-retail-energy-due-west-bank-activities-2025-05-11/#:~:text=It%20was%20the%20latest%20decision,divest%20enti...
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10 Percent for All @10percentforall.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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10% for All
An international call to reduce military spending
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The Corruption Tracker Project @armstrade-ct.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#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
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https://corruption-tracker.org/case/the-rooppur-power-plant-scandal
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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.
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔴BREAKING: SWI can reveal Germany supplied arms to Israel throughout 2024. This includes 3.7 million Euros worth of fighting vehicle components.
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Unredacted @unredacteduk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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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 ZA @opensecrets.org.za · 13/03/2025
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...
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Arms Deal Justice
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Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za · 13/03/2025
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...
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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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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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!
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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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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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“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.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/02/2025
Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel
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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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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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...
Quote on image reads "Officials are bullied into silence. Processes are manipulated to produce politically convenient outcomes. Whistleblowers are stonewalled, isolated and ignored. And all the while, the Uk government continues to arm regimes that commit atrocities, hiding behind legal loopholes and public relations spin." Quote from former FCDO Official Mark Smith
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Corruption Tracker @armstradect.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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?...
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Why the Global Arms Trade is BOOMING in 2025
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Ruth Rohde @ruth4peace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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...
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Robert “Bob” Menendez - US Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until September 22, 2023.
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Corruption Tracker @armstradect.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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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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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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-...
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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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Ruth Rohde @ruth4peace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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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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Ruth Rohde @ruth4peace.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"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...
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Arms Trade Issues in Europe in 2025
YouTube video by Forum on the Arms Trade
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