Updates – Transition Security Project

Transition Security Project

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Promise of military industry jobs overstated by government, think tank finds

Our new video investigation — Green Clydeside — featured by The National.

War, climate crisis and the economy: Transition Security Project launch

Listen to our launch event with Laleh Khalili, Ilias Alami, Stephen Semler and Thea Riofrancos. The event was published as a podcast by Macrodose.

novaramedia.com ↗

Responding to the global spike in military spending

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly appeared on Novara Live to discuss the launch of Transition Security Project.

neweconomics.org ↗

How did the UK become a global arms dealer?

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly and one of our fellows David Wearing interviewed on the New Economics podcast.

jacobin.com ↗

All guns and no butter on a burning planet

Our Co-Directors Khem Rogaly and Patrick Bigger wrote about our launch for Jacobin.

Weapons or wind turbines?

Our Co-Directors Khem Rogaly and Patrick Bigger interviewed in German daily newspaper Taz.

Military Investment Will Not Produce Prosperity

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly co-authored a commentary piece for RUSI, with Noah Sylvia.

theguardian.com ↗

$1 trillion Pentagon budget to add vast emissions, study shows

Our Research Manager Lorah Steichen and Co-Director Patrick Bigger’s analysis covered by the Guardian.

theguardian.com ↗

Europe’s surging military spending will hurt climate and social programmes

Our analysis of NATO’s new military spending target featured in the Guardian.

decorrespondent.nl ↗

The more weapons Europe buys, the less safe it becomes

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly’s analysis of European rearmament profiled in De Correspondent.

theguardian.com ↗

Britain’s warfare state is steeped in old thinking

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly quoted by David Edgerton in his analysis of the Strategic Defence Review.

Global military power won’t make Britain more secure

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly spoke to LBC radio.

The government’s drive to increase military spending will bring insecurity abroad and instability at home

Sky News invited our Co-Director Khem Rogaly to discuss the UK’s Strategic Defence Review.

thetimes.com ↗

Will higher defence spending help the economy?

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly interviewed by the Times.

theguardian.com ↗

Israel’s assault on Gaza has a carbon footprint exceeding many countries

Our Co-Director Patrick Bigger’s analysis of Israel’s ecocide in Gaza featured in the Guardian.

novaramedia.com ↗

The reason behind Starmer’s military spending agenda

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly wrote for Novara Media on the UK’s decision to increase military spending.

novaramedia.com ↗

The absurdity of rearmament

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly was interviewed by Novara FM on European rearmament.

theguardian.com ↗

Why increased military spending won’t help Britain’s ailing economy

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly wrote for the Guardian on the government’s claim that military spending will revitalise the economy.

inews.co.uk ↗

UK military spending is already higher than in 1980

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly spoke to the i paper on government plans to hike military expenditure.

Gaza’s environment may never fully heal

Our Co-Director Patrick Bigger interviewed by the Express Tribune.

theguardian.com ↗

Belfast shipyard can be repurposed to make green infrastructure

Our report — A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century — was covered by the Guardian and endorsed by the RMT.

break-down.org ↗

Against a military transition

Nico Edwards and our Co-Director Khem Rogaly wrote about militarised adaptation for the Break Down.

youtube.com ↗

The hidden climate impact of military power

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly discussed our research on military ecological damage on the Break Down.

newrepublic.com ↗

Military readiness in a warming world

Our Co-Director Patrick Bigger interviewed by the New Republic.

turningpointmag.org ↗

Three dimensions of militarism in the climate crisis

Our Co-Director Patrick Bigger wrote for Turning Point magazine.

theguardian.com ↗

Top Ministry of Defence contractors paid out £15 billion to shareholders

Owen Jones discussed our work in the Guardian.

altreconomia.it ↗

The impact of the military sector on the climate crisis

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly spoke to Italian magazine Altreconomia about the ecological impact of the military.

theguardian.com ↗

Emissions from Israel’s attack on Gaza have immense impact on the climate

Our Co-Director Patrick Bigger’s analysis of the emissions produced by Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza featured in the Guardian.

sciencefriday.com ↗

The mammoth carbon footprint of the US and UK militaries

Transition Security Project’s Co-Directors Patrick Bigger and Khem Rogaly interviewed by Science Friday for National Public Radio.

aljazeera.com ↗

The US military’s devastating carbon footprint

Transition Security Project’s Co-Directors Patrick Bigger and Khem Rogaly interviewed by Al Jazeera.

War and warming

Transition Security Project’s Co-Directors Patrick Bigger and Khem Rogaly interviewed by Deutsche Welle’s Living Planet podcast.

Up in arms?

Our analysis of the ownership of the military industry used by Anna Stavrianakis in a letter to the London Review of Books.

motherjones.com ↗

US military owes climate damages to the global south

Mother Jones covered our report — Less War, Less Warming.

theguardian.com ↗

Anglo-American militaries owe billions in climate damages

Our Less War Less Warming report featured by the Guardian US.

novaramedia.com ↗

The military industry is propped up with state subsidy

Andrew Kersley covered our analysis for Novara Media.

opendemocracy.net ↗

The arms trade funnels public cash into private pockets

Our Co-Director Khem Rogaly wrote about shareholder payouts in the military industry for Open Democracy.

theguardian.com ↗

UK government wastes billions while military industry pumps money to investors

The Observer featured our work on the political economy of military spending.