Nick Buxton
@nickbuxton.bsky.social
Knowledge Hub at Transnational Institute. Communications Consultant. Expertise #climatesecurity #borderpolitics Posts in personal capacity. He/Him
It's time for action on the debt crisis. Please sign the global petition calling for >>
🤚 Urgent debt cancellation
✒️ New debt justice laws
🌍 A debt framework at the UN to stop future crises
Let's show world leaders that it's time to #canceldebtchoosehope 🌈
debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
🤚 Urgent debt cancellation
✒️ New debt justice laws
🌍 A debt framework at the UN to stop future crises
Let's show world leaders that it's time to #canceldebtchoosehope 🌈
debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
Cancel Debt, Choose Hope
Join the biggest global movement for debt cancellation in twenty-five years. Campaigners and activists around the world are uniting to demand action on unjust debt. It’s a huge year for the campaign –...
debtjustice.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's time for action on the debt crisis. Please sign the global petition calling for >>
🤚 Urgent debt cancellation
✒️ New debt justice laws
🌍 A debt framework at the UN to stop future crises
Let's show world leaders that it's time to #canceldebtchoosehope 🌈
debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
🤚 Urgent debt cancellation
✒️ New debt justice laws
🌍 A debt framework at the UN to stop future crises
Let's show world leaders that it's time to #canceldebtchoosehope 🌈
debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
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Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
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Trump has murdered at least 34 people in the Caribbean. The administration “ is selecting boats more or less at random, and intentionally killing people who could be captured.” From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/4pogGiw
The Pirate Lord Donald Trump - The American Prospect
All evidence suggests the president is directing the military to assassinate random civilians off the coast of South America, and thereby violating norms and laws that stretch back to before the founding of this country.
trib.al
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump has murdered at least 34 people in the Caribbean. The administration “ is selecting boats more or less at random, and intentionally killing people who could be captured.” From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/4pogGiw
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While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Transition Security Project
transitionsecurity.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Great analysis by @pmbigger.bsky.social and Khem Rogaly on why the vast expansion of the military industrial complex does not serve the working class and creates a more dangerous planet jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.
jacobin.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Great analysis by @pmbigger.bsky.social and Khem Rogaly on why the vast expansion of the military industrial complex does not serve the working class and creates a more dangerous planet jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
Excited to be part of this really important initiative. Climate justice is impossible in an ever-more militarised economy and society. We need new pathways forward...
The official launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social is in just one week! Join CCI & @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Excited to be part of this really important initiative. Climate justice is impossible in an ever-more militarised economy and society. We need new pathways forward...
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When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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The destruction of the UAWC seed bank in Hebron is a deliberate attack on Palestinian food sovereignty and peasant resistance. This assault targets the right to land, life, and self-determination. Peasant seeds are seeds of resistance. Hold Israel accountable.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/08/l...
viacampesina.org/en/2025/08/l...
La Via Campesina Condemns Israeli Forces’ Attack on UAWC Seed Bank in Hebron, Palestine | Read the Full Statement
It is a political assault on a people’s right to live with dignity, care for their land, and determine their own future. We stand with UAWC and all Palestinian peasants who continue their struggle und...
viacampesina.org
August 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The destruction of the UAWC seed bank in Hebron is a deliberate attack on Palestinian food sovereignty and peasant resistance. This assault targets the right to land, life, and self-determination. Peasant seeds are seeds of resistance. Hold Israel accountable.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/08/l...
viacampesina.org/en/2025/08/l...
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Entrevista a Rafeef Ziadah @rafeefz.bsky.social sobre el genocidio en Palestina
Por @nickbuxton.bsky.social en #revistaPapeles 170 www.fuhem.es/2025/07/16/p...
Por @nickbuxton.bsky.social en #revistaPapeles 170 www.fuhem.es/2025/07/16/p...
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Entrevista a Rafeef Ziadah @rafeefz.bsky.social sobre el genocidio en Palestina
Por @nickbuxton.bsky.social en #revistaPapeles 170 www.fuhem.es/2025/07/16/p...
Por @nickbuxton.bsky.social en #revistaPapeles 170 www.fuhem.es/2025/07/16/p...
Increased military emissions is one of the dangers of increased military spending, but the bigger concern as I explained to @grist.org is that an ever more militarised world is the opposite of climate justice. grist.org/climate/how-...
How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
grist.org
July 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Increased military emissions is one of the dangers of increased military spending, but the bigger concern as I explained to @grist.org is that an ever more militarised world is the opposite of climate justice. grist.org/climate/how-...
TNI's work on climate and militarism is featured in this piece
How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions.
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
grist.org/climate/how-...
#Military #Army #Navy #Policy #Climate #Budget
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
grist.org/climate/how-...
#Military #Army #Navy #Policy #Climate #Budget
How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
grist.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TNI's work on climate and militarism is featured in this piece
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"The Draghi report was overwhelmingly influenced by corporate interests, with 65 percent of written input coming from businesses and only 5 percent from civil society."
NEW Nick Smith on the EU's rearmament
NEW Nick Smith on the EU's rearmament
Rearming Europe | Phenomenal World
The main justification for the EU’s recent dramatic reorientation toward defense is the proliferation of threats to European security emerging from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But rather than defens...
www.phenomenalworld.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"The Draghi report was overwhelmingly influenced by corporate interests, with 65 percent of written input coming from businesses and only 5 percent from civil society."
NEW Nick Smith on the EU's rearmament
NEW Nick Smith on the EU's rearmament
Excellent analysis of UK National Security Strategy by R. Reeves @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social that speaks of providing security for people but does not consult them, rushes enthusiastically towards more insecurity & never reflects on what keeps us safe. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/09/d...
Don’t Look Up, Don’t Look Down: The radical certainty of Labour’s National Security Strategy
The UK’s latest National Security Strategy heralds a radical redistribution of national resources from social spending to defence. Richard Reeve argues that it not only brushes aside the looming re…
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk
July 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Excellent analysis of UK National Security Strategy by R. Reeves @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social that speaks of providing security for people but does not consult them, rushes enthusiastically towards more insecurity & never reflects on what keeps us safe. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/09/d...
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big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries
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(1/2): 📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN!
Are you organizing against the #FarRight in the Global South? Apply now to Know Your Enemy, Noor’s Popular Education School — a collective learning space for organizers across the #GlobalSouth to deepen political analysis, share tactics & build collective strength.
Are you organizing against the #FarRight in the Global South? Apply now to Know Your Enemy, Noor’s Popular Education School — a collective learning space for organizers across the #GlobalSouth to deepen political analysis, share tactics & build collective strength.
June 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
(1/2): 📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN!
Are you organizing against the #FarRight in the Global South? Apply now to Know Your Enemy, Noor’s Popular Education School — a collective learning space for organizers across the #GlobalSouth to deepen political analysis, share tactics & build collective strength.
Are you organizing against the #FarRight in the Global South? Apply now to Know Your Enemy, Noor’s Popular Education School — a collective learning space for organizers across the #GlobalSouth to deepen political analysis, share tactics & build collective strength.
Looking forward to listening to this
We're live! I'm thrilled to share the launch of "开门见山 | Gateway to Global China," a new podcast from @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly.
Each month, guests and I explore timely issues in Chinese politics and society and the broader Sinophone world🎙️:
madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...
Each month, guests and I explore timely issues in Chinese politics and society and the broader Sinophone world🎙️:
madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...
June 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Looking forward to listening to this
My thoughts on why NATO's new spending pledge is catastrophic for people and the planet. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet
The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.
www.aljazeera.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My thoughts on why NATO's new spending pledge is catastrophic for people and the planet. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Mamdani's victory could be the biggest election win for climate populism since AOC beat Crowley in 2018.
With AOC, the Green New Deal promised good green jobs.
Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good, green life affordable.
Climate politics have fundamentally changed.
With AOC, the Green New Deal promised good green jobs.
Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good, green life affordable.
Climate politics have fundamentally changed.
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Mamdani's victory could be the biggest election win for climate populism since AOC beat Crowley in 2018.
With AOC, the Green New Deal promised good green jobs.
Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good, green life affordable.
Climate politics have fundamentally changed.
With AOC, the Green New Deal promised good green jobs.
Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good, green life affordable.
Climate politics have fundamentally changed.
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This #FathersDay, we also think of the loving immigrant fathers who are separated from their families due to our nation’s outdated—and increasingly cruel—immigration policies:
americasvoice.org/blog/happy-f...
americasvoice.org/blog/happy-f...
Happy Father’s Day to All The Immigrant Dads - America's Voice
This Father’s Day, we honor and celebrate the resilient stories of immigrant dads like Hoang Pham, who nearly five decades later still vividly remembers the day he waved goodbye to his family in Vietn...
americasvoice.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This #FathersDay, we also think of the loving immigrant fathers who are separated from their families due to our nation’s outdated—and increasingly cruel—immigration policies:
americasvoice.org/blog/happy-f...
americasvoice.org/blog/happy-f...
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ICYMI
By me: The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
By me: The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
ICYMI
By me: The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
By me: The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Join us for the official launch event of the 10% for All campaign, a powerful global initiative calling for a minimum 10% reduction in military spending by all countries—and a redirection of those funds towards life-affirming priorities that build true human security.
Register here: bit.ly/44Bxm0g
Register here: bit.ly/44Bxm0g
May 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Join us for the official launch event of the 10% for All campaign, a powerful global initiative calling for a minimum 10% reduction in military spending by all countries—and a redirection of those funds towards life-affirming priorities that build true human security.
Register here: bit.ly/44Bxm0g
Register here: bit.ly/44Bxm0g
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white supremacy and racial chauvinism remain the greatest technology invented for getting people to immiserate themselves for the benefit of the wealthy
May 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
white supremacy and racial chauvinism remain the greatest technology invented for getting people to immiserate themselves for the benefit of the wealthy
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The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
How should climate activists respond to Europe’s embrace of a ‘security’ emergency that has completely displaced its commitment to tackle the far bigger climate emergency? So far, the response from climate groups has been rather muted, with few statements by climate organisations and little evident public resistance.
euobserver.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
I argue in @euobserver.com with Deborah Burton and Stuart Parkinson that an ever more armed planet threatens to undermine all possibility of climate justice euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
How should climate activists respond to Europe’s embrace of a ‘security’ emergency that has completely displaced its commitment to tackle the far bigger climate emergency? So far, the response from cl...
euobserver.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I argue in @euobserver.com with Deborah Burton and Stuart Parkinson that an ever more armed planet threatens to undermine all possibility of climate justice euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Isn't it time for climate groups to speak out against militarisation when it is increasing emissions, diverting finance and stopping climate action? Here are some pointers on what we could say.... www.tni.org/en/publicati...
What does the global arms race mean for climate action? | Transnational Institute
Briefing for climate organisations that explores how the global arms race fuels climate instability, and suggests ways to communicate on the issues that does not further legitimise military greenwashi...
www.tni.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Isn't it time for climate groups to speak out against militarisation when it is increasing emissions, diverting finance and stopping climate action? Here are some pointers on what we could say.... www.tni.org/en/publicati...