A bomb factory in Scotland providing missile parts for Saudi Arabia’s air force has not been checked in over three years, missing the UK government’s own inspection deadlines. Weaponry produced by Raytheon in Glenrothes is linked to war crimes in Yemen.
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Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to ‘kill’ a United Nations ban on mercenaries
by PHIL MILLER | 17 June 2020
TAGGED: Declassified files, Keenie Meenie Services
Following recent revelations that UK mercenaries fought on the same side as Vladimir Putin’s forces in Libya, Declassified exposes how Britain has blocked international efforts to ban private armies – partly to protect its own use of Gurkhas and other foreign fighters.
Revealed: Baby animals knowingly killed by British military
by PHIL MILLER | 10 June 2020
TAGGED: Cyprus
Military exercises at British bases in the Mediterranean are causing miscarriages and deaths among farm animals, generating hundreds of compensation claims each year, and threatening protected environmental sites, Declassified UK can reveal.
REVEALED: Veterans of the UK military’s cyber warfare unit are teaching school children how to launch cyber attacks
by MATT KENNARD | 4 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, is enabling a company set up by the former commander of its top-secret cyber warfare unit to enter dozens of British schools, where it is teaching children how to spy on others, to hack, and launch “brute force” cyber attacks.
REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools
by MATT KENNARD | 3 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, is secretively promoting arms companies involved in war crimes to British school children, apparently without the informed consent of parents, it can be revealed.
REVEALED: The UK’s largest intelligence agency is infiltrating British schools
by MATT KENNARD | 2 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, Britain’s listening post which has conducted unlawful mass surveillance and offensive cyber operations, is now running a secretive programme in at least 40 UK schools which gives it access to children as young as four.
New UK laws could criminalise journalism
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 30 May 2020
The British government is pushing ahead with “espionage legislation” that could criminalise the release of public information and impose even stricter controls on the UK media as part of an “epidemic of secrecy”.
When Britain failed to protect America from a flu pandemic in China
by PHIL MILLER | 29 May 2020
TAGGED: China, Coronavirus, Hong Kong
Before Covid-19, British colonial authorities allowed a deadly flu virus to spread from Hong Kong in 1968 with devastating consequences for the US and the rest of the world – one million people died.
British SAS soldier-turned-mercenary dies aged 86 without facing justice for war crimes
by PHIL MILLER | 22 May 2020
TAGGED: Ireland, Keenie Meenie Services, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Yemen
SAS veteran Brian Baty served on covert operations across the crumbling British empire from the 1950s, then sold his counter-insurgency experience to the Sri Lankan government, profiting from massacres of Tamil civilians. A UK minister said these killings should be investigated as war crimes days after Baty passed away unpunished, following decades of official cover-ups.
Exclusive: UK military and arms companies produce more carbon emissions than 60 individual countries
by MATT KENNARD | 19 May 2020
TAGGED: Environment, military
The greenhouse gas emissions produced by the UK military and its supply chain are up to 11 times higher than admitted by the Ministry of Defence, which has produced a ‘pattern of flawed reporting’ on its environmental impacts, new research carried out for Declassified UK has found.