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Food security. A typically well-informed blog from Geoff Tansey: geofftansey.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/foo…

The Insecurity Trap and 25 years of failed wars: opendemocracy.net/en/25-years-fa…

👉NEW -- How Britain is wasting its defence budget by Richard Richard NortonTaylor While soldiers shiver in crumbling barracks, the top brass have squandered huge sums of public money buying equipment we don't need or that doesn't work. declassifieduk.org/how-britain-is…

👉NEW -- The UK military's secret visits to Israel by Mark Curtis Top British officers have made at least five unpublicised trips to Tel Aviv to meet Israeli officials, one to discuss ‘future operations’ in the Middle East. declassifieduk.org/the-uk-militar…

Don't assume Trump's claims on the Panama Canal and Greenland are empty threats. We have been here before: opendemocracy.net/en/trump-buy-g…

👉NEW -- Labour leader praised MI5 for spying on trade union by Richard Richard NortonTaylor Harold Wilson, one of Britain’s most left-wing prime ministers, was delighted by MI5’s surveillance of a seafarers’ strike in the 1960s. declassifieduk.org/labour-leader-…

Meanwhile, ISIS quietly makes a comeback: opendemocracy.net/en/trump-isis-…

Netanyahu is making Israel less secure: opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-ceasef…

Can the Gaza ceasefire survive? opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-ceasef…

Also on: Paul Rogers.bsky.social

Labour's failure on climate breakdown: opendemocracy.net/en/climate-cri…

Will Trump's plan for Gaza really be tried? opendemocracy.net/en/trump-has-c…

Podcast on Jacobin about Trump's Gaza scheme: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…

What next for Trump's term of office? opendemocracy.net/en/donald-trum…

Trump and the people around him are seeing how far, and how quickly, they can move: opendemocracy.net/en/trump-testi…

Is the Starmer government starting to move away from Israel and the carnage in Gaza? opendemocracy.net/en/uk-support-…

👉NEW -- Birds of a feather – the Royal and Israeli Air Forces by Mark Curtis Explainer: The RAF has a secretive but special relationship with its Israeli counterpart which has been devastating Gaza. declassifieduk.org/birds-of-a-fea…

❗️We asked defence secretary John Healey about UK spy flights for Israel amid the genocide. He didn't seem too pleased. Please repost after watching 👇

"Iran: Consequences of a War" I wrote this report for Oxford Research Group during a previous crisis in 2006 and a lot of it is still relevant: files.ethz.ch/isn/15276/Iran…

Israel has embarked on yet another war which will kill many more people, threaten a dangerous escalation and take the Middle East even further from a time of Peace: opendemocracy.net/en/iran-israel…