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MARK CURTIS

Mark Curtis is the editor of Declassified UK, and the author of five books and many articles on UK foreign policy.
Whitehall does little to stop the revolving door between politics and fossil fuel firms (Photo: Can Pac Swire / Flickr / CC)

Revealed: Dozens of UK former senior officials profit from fossil fuel corporations, rubber-stamped by Whitehall committee

February 4th, 2021

Tagged BPShell

Sky News acts largely as a platform for the UK defence and foreign ministries, research finds

February 1st, 2021

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The Ministry of Defence blacklisted Declassified – but won’t admit it

December 11th, 2020

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More than two dozen Saudi Typhoon pilots trained in Britain

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October 7th, 2020

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Revealed: Key Assange prosecution witness is part of academic cluster which has received millions of pounds from UK and US militaries

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October 2nd, 2020

Tagged Assange

As British judge made rulings against Julian Assange, her husband was involved with right-wing lobby group briefing against WikiLeaks founder

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September 3rd, 2020

Tagged Assange

Belarus military has received assistance from the UK a dozen times in past five years

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August 20th, 2020

Tagged BelarusUkraine

UK government refuses to release information about Assange judge who has 96% extradition record

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July 31st, 2020

Tagged Assange

The UK has approved over £200 million worth of exports with potential military use to Russia since the Salisbury poisonings

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July 23rd, 2020

Tagged RussiaUkraine

For Sama’a: As Britain resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a deadly airstrike in Yemen

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July 20th, 2020

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Revealed: UK Home Office paid £80,000 to a lobby group which has funded Conservative MPs

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July 14th, 2020

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REVEALED: Veterans of the UK military’s cyber warfare unit are teaching school children how to launch cyber attacks

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June 4th, 2020

Tagged GCHQ

REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools

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June 3rd, 2020

Tagged GCHQ

Exclusive: UK military and arms companies produce more carbon emissions than 60 individual countries

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May 19th, 2020

Tagged Environmentmilitary

Revelations about UK covert operations in Syria challenge media narratives on the war

May 18th, 2020

Tagged AidSyriaterrorism

Revealed: How Britain’s profiteering spymasters ignored the country’s biggest threats like coronavirus—and endangered the public

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May 7th, 2020

Tagged BPCoronavirusGCHQMI5MI6

British ministers, complicit in millions of deaths since 1945, won’t face justice over coronavirus

May 2nd, 2020

Tagged Coronavirus

How Britain’s Labour government facilitated the massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria – to protect its oil interests

April 29th, 2020

Tagged Declassified filesNigeria

The UK will spend over £350bn on extravagant military projects while failing to ensure national health security

March 25th, 2020

Tagged CoronavirusNuclear

How the UK press supports the British military and intelligence establishment

March 11th, 2020

Tagged EgyptIranIsraelRussiaSaudi ArabiausYemen

How the UK press is misinforming the public about Britain’s role in the world

March 9th, 2020

Tagged EgyptIsraelOmanSaudi ArabiaSyriaYemen

UK minister who approved Trump’s request to extradite Assange spoke at secretive US conferences with people calling for him to be “neutralized”

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February 22nd, 2020

Tagged Assange

REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office

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February 21st, 2020

Tagged Assange

Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating domestic or international law

February 7th, 2020

Tagged ArgentinaAssangeChagos IslandsGCHQIsraelMI5MI6