Jack Cinamon

Researcher @ShadowWorldInv @Armstradect
Co-author of 'Making a Killing'

[Corruption Tracker @ArmsTradeCT]

Mission accomplished? 🤔 CATC : H this all out on that on our piece by our Taylor Miller. Now also available on our Substack: https://t.co/fD1P61K1H4 💥

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Photos show fragments of a US-made GBU-39/B bomb used by the israelis to kill doctors and patients in Nasser Hospital in Gaza last night

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.

And they stink.

They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.

The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.

Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.

It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.

As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.

I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.

What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?

Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).

Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.

We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.

There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.

[Campaign Against Arms Trade @CAATuk]

Saudi Arabia has resumed its bombing of Yemen and the UK government is supporting it.

Join us to show the companies fuelling the bombing that they are not welcome in our communities!

Support the call: https://t.co/JWWslGQysw

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

On the same day it emerged that over £10 million worth of public contracts were awarded to companies involved in illegal Zionist settlements since Miliband’s “sanctions.”

[Corruption Tracker @ArmsTradeCT]

New Case 🚨 | The Estonian Defence Procurement Scandal

The scandal centres around a series of Estonian arms deals worth over €70 million, intended to secure artillery ammunition for Ukraine.
https://t.co/nvLIQKqipe

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇬🇧 UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Monday that "the UK government will not stand by" as floods tear through Gaza's tent camps and Israel blocks aid, yet Britain has never sanctioned anyone for blocking aid to Gaza. The Council for Arab-British Understanding urged him to change that by using his powers "to sanction those who block life-saving humanitarian aid," Sky News' Alex Crawford reported.

Those powers came into force last month under new human rights and humanitarian law sanctions regulations, but the government has yet to designate anyone. That's despite an Oct. 29 letter in which 75 MPs and peers urged Miliband to act before winter by targeting the Israeli officials behind restrictions on UNRWA and other aid groups, and by matching the EU's sanctions on Israeli groups that blocked and attacked Gaza aid convoys, which Brussels has sanctioned since July 2024 while Britain still hasn't.

[Khem Rogaly @KhemRogaly]

I went on @poltheoryother to discuss Britain’s military budget, which has surged above Cold War highs in recent years.

Despite this, the government plans to double military spending over the next decade while public services are squeezed.

Listen for more 👇

[Shadow World Investigations @ShadowWorldInv]

In 2025, four people entered Moog’s Wolverhampton aerospace facility.

This new website brings together the evidence, research and publicly available documents behind the case.

The Moog 4 Files: The Case, The Evidence & The Questions It Raises.
https://t.co/XWhfsRY3xr

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

This is just so, so, so bleak.

The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.

Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.

BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.

How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?

But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.

It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.

There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢On October 18, a Saudi-led coalition aircraft dropped a US-supplied 500-pound MK-82 bomb on a home sheltering 28 people in Saada, northern Yemen, according to a New York Times investigation.

Nine members of the al-Qahm family, including five children under the age of 10, were killed, and another 19 people were wounded, according to witnesses. The death toll and victims’ identities were corroborated by a casualty list provided by the Health Ministry in Sana’a.

The Times analyzed footage from the scene and satellite imagery, finding no evidence of Ansarallah forces or fortifications within half a mile of the family’s home. Yet a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition accused the family of “directly supporting the war effort.”

Ansarallah’s military spokesperson announced today that Saudi airstrikes and missile strikes have reached 4,264 since the latest escalation began.

📸 Image 1: Yemenis search the rubble of the al-Qahm family home following a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on October 18, 2026, in Saada, northern Yemen, that killed nine family members, including five children under 10. (Al Masirah)

📸 Image 2: Fragment of a US-made guided bomb bearing markings indicating compatibility with an MK-82 500-pound bomb. The visible assembly number is 837760-4.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

One of the most anticipated books of the year has its official launch this month! Join Andrew Feinstein, Ruth Rohde, Jack Cinamon and the team of SWI on Nov 30 7-9pm at New St Pancras Church to launch “Making A Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza & Yemen” And get one of our launch stickers. And of course read, weep AND ACT!

[Corruption Tracker @ArmsTradeCT]

New Blog 🚨 | by @jackcinamon Rhona Michie and @Ruth4Peace

The Corruption Tracker recently became a target of what very much looks like a disinformation campaign centred around corruption and Ukraine. In our latest investigation, we break it down.
https://t.co/r5n0he1KTD

[Shadow World Investigations @ShadowWorldInv]

The discontinuation of annual military aid to Israel might be becoming something far more entrenched...

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

The US military lost 85 aircraft and had another 26 damaged in the first seven months of the Iran War.

An itemized accounting:

[Shadow World Investigations @ShadowWorldInv]

$$$4 billion worth! @stephensemler
https://t.co/vBezhmEY8F

[Jack Cinamon @jackcinamon]

Under pressure, politicians openly accepting AIPAC’s support has become unpopular with voters. But its super PAC, UDP, can spend millions backing pro-Israel candidates and attacking opponents. It spent over $30m attacking El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race
https://t.co/fghn3N5soq

[Steve Howell @QuaeroBooks]

It's been a lucrative week for BAE shareholders.

Around £5 billion has been added to the market value of the arms maker, thanks to:

- A government brokered arms deal with Poland,
- An extra £10bn for the Ukraine war,
- Another £5bn diverted from public services to fund UK arms spending.

Total arms spending in this Parliament will be more than £350bn - exceeding the Cold War level in real terms.

And that doesn't include the £35bn for Ukraine.

[Corruption Tracker @ArmsTradeCT]

👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻Our Carla has dug into how central microchips are to advancements in both civilian tech and warfare.

Check it out now💥: https://t.co/M56OlZMuBB

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

🚨Big scoop here with Iona Craig at @DropSiteNews:

The UAE has been covertly assisting the Houthis, also known as Ansarallah, in their war against Saudi Arabia inside Yemen https://t.co/5aAa619jJ1