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Dr Iain Overton
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⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Trump’s border wars at sea: how the US is turning the Caribbean into a killing zone

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Trump’s border wars at sea: how the US is turning the Caribbean into a killing zone - AOAV
Donald Trump’s boast of striking a “drug boat” off Venezuela exposes how America’s border has become a theatre of lethal sovereignty, where the state redefines law through violence and turns open seas...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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MoD’s annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a ‘qualified audit’. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs?

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MoD's annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a 'qualified audit'. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs? - AOAV
The Ministry of Defence has received a qualified audit opinion after auditors found £6.13 billion in unverifiable assets (mostly linked to the Atomic Weapons Establishment) an overspend of £2.56 billi...
aoav.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Defence firms gave £178,500 to Westminster APPGs over three years

New by me for @aoav.bsky.social

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Defence firms gave £178,500 to Westminster APPGs over three years - AOAV
Britain’s defence industry has quietly embedded itself in Westminster’s political circles, donating nearly £180,000 to military-linked All-Party Parliamentary Groups between 2023 and 2025, reinforcing...
aoav.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party

Why is ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum? Iain Overton

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November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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MoD’s annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a ‘qualified audit’. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs?

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MoD's annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a 'qualified audit'. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs? - AOAV
The Ministry of Defence has received a qualified audit opinion after auditors found £6.13 billion in unverifiable assets (mostly linked to the Atomic Weapons Establishment) an overspend of £2.56 billi...
aoav.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party

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November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law

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The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law - AOAV
Israel’s AI-driven bombing of Gaza has produced unprecedented civilian death rates and raised grave accusations of genocide and war crimes.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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British Army ends controversial use of white phosphorus in Kenya. Questions of accountability and compensation linger

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British Army ends controversial use of white phosphorus in Kenya. Questions of accountability and compensation linger - AOAV
The British Army has halted the use of white phosphorus munitions in Kenya following a 2022 Declassified UK exposé revealing their deployment on communal lands, but with the underlying licence still a...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Inquiry examines recovered UK Special Forces server data in Afghanistan killings probe after ‘cover-up’ deletion

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Inquiry examines recovered UK Special Forces server data in Afghanistan killings probe after 'cover-up' deletion - AOAV
Britain’s inquiry into alleged Special Forces war crimes has recovered terabytes of data from a deleted military server once thought lost—contradicting Ministry of Defence claims, reviving the Operati...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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High Court sides with secrecy: how Britain’s Afghanistan Inquiry has been predictably dragged further into the shadows in the name of ‘National Security’

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High Court sides with secrecy: how Britain’s Afghanistan Inquiry has been predictably dragged further into the shadows in the name of ‘National Security’ - AOAV
The High Court’s decision to let the Afghanistan Inquiry proceed under a dual closed-material procedure marks a victory for secrecy over scrutiny, ensuring that key evidence about alleged Special Forc...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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“Do Not Join”: the British Army’s misogyny problem is a risk to national-security

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“Do Not Join”: the British Army’s misogyny problem is a risk to national-security - AOAV
After her daughter, Gunner Jaysley Beck, died in barracks months after a mishandled sexual-assault complaint, Leighann McCready said the armed forces still fail to protect recruits and she would not a...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry to defend human rights

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Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
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November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Trump’s nuclear confusion risks lighting a fuse the world cannot control.

My thoughts for @aoav.bsky.social

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Trump’s nuclear confusion risks lighting a fuse the world cannot control - AOAV
Donald Trump’s call to resume US nuclear weapons testing shatters decades of restraint, risks triggering a new global arms race, and exposes a perilous ignorance of nuclear policy and deterrence.
aoav.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Israeli military in crisis as Advocate General resigns over rape video leak

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Israeli military in crisis as Advocate General resigns over rape video leak - AOAV
The resignation of Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi over the leaked Sde Teiman rape video exposes not just a personal lapse in judgement but a deeper rot within Israel’s military justice system, w...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering

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The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering - AOAV
John Paul II’s reflections on suffering confront the moral paradox of evil as both a wound and a summons to love, revealing how faith can turn the machinery of violence into a call for human responsib...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Silicon valley’s new front line: are US defence-tech firms exploiting Britain’s culture wars?

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Silicon valley’s new front line: are US defence-tech firms exploiting Britain’s culture wars? - AOAV
As far-right nationalism resurges in Britain, American defence-tech firms like Anduril and Palantir are exploiting patriotic imagery and political discontent to expand their influence, embedding thems...
aoav.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
iainoverton.bsky.social
The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering

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The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering - AOAV
John Paul II’s reflections on suffering confront the moral paradox of evil as both a wound and a summons to love, revealing how faith can turn the machinery of violence into a call for human responsib...
aoav.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
iainoverton.bsky.social
1/ UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during the Gaza war
AOAV’s new analysis reveals Britain’s most senior military personnel repeatedly visited Israel while its forces bombarded Gaza, as international calls for an arms embargo grew.

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UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war, AOAV finds - AOAV
Britain’s most senior military leaders made twelve official visits to Israel during the Gaza war, maintaining close contact with the Israeli armed forces even as civilian deaths mounted, according to ...
aoav.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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👉NEW -- UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war

by @iainoverton.bsky.social

Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”.
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UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?

@iainoverton.bsky.social travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow

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Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?
Iain Overton travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow
bylinetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Dr Iain Overton
aoav.bsky.social
Are defence stocks too high?

A piece by @iainoverton.bsky.social and Paula Muresan

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Are defence stocks too high? - AOAV
Global defence firms are enjoying record profits as governments rearm and investors bet on a world that seems perpetually at war.
aoav.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
iainoverton.bsky.social
Are defence stocks too high?

A piece by myself and Paula Muresan

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Are defence stocks too high? - AOAV
Global defence firms are enjoying record profits as governments rearm and investors bet on a world that seems perpetually at war.
aoav.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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From your faithful correspondent in Tashkent (me): Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?

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Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?
Iain Overton travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow
bylinetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM