Khem Rogaly
@KhemRogaly
researching military industrial complexes @Cmmonwealth
I interviewed workers in the military industry to understand the potential of a transition from arms production to green manufacturing. My report for @Cmmonwealth argues that industrial strategy in the 2020s should build on the Lucas Plan. common-wealth.org/publications/a…
🚨NEW REPORT The military industry — which produces huge social & ecological damage — contains technological capacity that can be repurposed for green manufacturing. We spoke to military industry workers that were open to a transition, building on the historic Lucas Plan.…
The Israeli military claimed it began “daily tactical pauses” in its assault on Gaza on Sunday to increase aid. Over the last 24 hours, 100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, acc. to ministry of health. 25 killed while seeking aid. 14 died from starvation and malnutrition.
are stretched increasingly thin. Please consider donating to groups active on the ground, doing incredible work in impossible circumstances: chuffed.org/project/123783…
As the famine worsens in Gaza, the most effective way to help financially is to support mutual aid groups which purchase any food and make it available to Palestinians through their networks. The price of food has gone up astronomically & resources of mutual aid projects
“Elites struggle to engage arguments opposing great-power competition because they would have to explicitly admit that vulgar indicators of American power are more important than Americans being buried in debt or unable to afford their rent.”
“But we have no choice except to deliver the truth to the world, so the world can see the extent of the oppression, brutality and cruelty of this occupation” “As a Palestinian journalist, we have a message. Not only me, but from all my brothers and sisters and from all the…
David Lammy today said intel from the RAF spy flights over Gaza is not going to the Israeli military But an Israeli military official told the New York Times that Britain is providing "intelligence from the air and cyberspace that Israel cannot collect its own" Lammy is a liar
“Huge spending boost for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases — on a par with the annual carbon equivalent emissions generated by... the entire country of Croatia”. New analysis from Climate & Community Institute. theguardian.com/environment/20…
🚰🧵 We have heard a lot of claims about the potential cost of public ownership but not much on the actually existing cost of privatisation. This chart - from Ofwat's most recent Price Review - shows the scale: £22 billion in the next five years.
Steve Reed is right. We should focus on facts. So let's start with eight claims made to @krishgm 1. The £100bn figure. This makes no sense and is not credibly evidenced. The true and fair value in law is close to zero. Legal expert @ewan_mg unpacks common-wealth.org/perspectives/h…
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
So the govt is lending the money to the private investors it has brought onboard to dilute its share, at favorable rates, with next to no risk for the investors and practically guaranteed profits in the future? Love this dynamic capitalist system! ft.com/content/c858fb…
Folks, things are beyond dire - please please please throw some funds to @sameerproject - in particular, their absolutely essential medical campaign: chuffed.org/project/136892…
Are we screaming into the abyss?
People are collapsing & dying from starvation in Gaza. Over the last 24 hours, 18 people have died as a result of famine, according to the ministry of health. Those who try to get food are gunned down by the Israeli military. At least 73 killed in aid massacres today. Genocide
Today in Glasgow a man is arrested for holding a sign reading "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action" Meanwhile the head of the Israeli air force who has overseen the killing of thousands of Palestinians is welcomed to an RAF conference thenational.scot/news/25325239.…
Video: A Palestinian woman gave birth in an ambulance under heavy Israeli shelling in northern Gaza. Unable to reach a hospital, medics delivered her baby girl by phone flashlight as bombs fell around them. Gaza’s Health Ministry says 15% of pregnancies have ended in…
Are we screaming into the abyss?
Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…
“That should be done under public ownership to keep as many benefits from production for the public”. @KhemRogaly on the Lucas Plan and defence industry conversion on the Laura Flanders Show last week.
An analysis of EU-Israel trade relations shows that the EU is Israel’s largest investor. Billions of euros invested in an economy of colonial apartheid and genocide. Divestment and economic sanctions now. somo.nl/economic-sanct…