In this episode we speak with Seb, a 26-year-old bus driver cycling from Amsterdam to Japan, raising money for No Name Kitchen and MiGrate, and raising awareness of brutalities of the global border regime.

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For more from Seb, see his website here: sebbiebikes.org

And follow him on Instagram: sebbiebikes

For more on No Name Kitchen, see: nonamekitchen.org

And check out episodes 87, 63, 59, 58, 51, 41, and 6 of The Civil Fleet Podcast

For more on MiGreat, check out migreat.org/en

Seb and Ben mention a bunch of books in the episode. Here they are:
The Divide by Jason Hickle
Humanitarian borders by Polly Pallister-Wilkins
Whites, Jews and Us by Houria Bouteldja
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honoured Guests by Ted Rall
Base Nation by David Vine
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevans
Border and Rule by Harsha Walia

[Please don't buy them from Amazon. Jeff Bezos has enough money already. He can fuck off to Mars]

See here for more on Dutch war crimes during the Battle of Chora in Afganistan, see here: https://www.courthousenews.com/dutch-court-finds-2007-bombing-of-afghan-village-unlawful/

Here's the video Ben mentioned of Afghanis clinging to a US plane retreating from the country in 2021 as the Taliban returned to power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUkObNlWjsI

Core Countries – what is Ben talking about? If you want to know more about World Systems Analysis, then check out this great introduction on the theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtOm0N_NVM&t=209s

For more on the arms firm Lockheed Martin, see his article by Campaign Against the Arms Trade: https://caat.org.uk/data/companies/lockheed-martin/

Read The Lancet's study on the number of people killed by economic sanctions since the 1970s here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltext

In this episode, Barbara from SOS Humanity tells us about the rescue organisation's new ship, the Humanity 2, how its crew saved over 70 lives on its first mission in the Mediterranean, and how the Italian authorities then seized it.

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For more on SOS Humanity, check out their website, here: sos-humanity.org/en/sos-humanity

You can donate to them here: sos-humanity.org/en/donate-now

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And Instagram: soshumanity_de

Check out episode 55 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on SOS Humanity

Ben mentions the Missing Migrants Project. Check that out here: missingmigrants.iom.int/

For more on the Piantedosi Decree, listen to episodes 90, 84, 71 and 66

For more on the Justice Fleet alliance, see here: justice-fleet.org

The Sea Punk I was the 11th detention of Justice Fleet ships this year. Read more here: sos-humanity.org/en/press/11th-detention-of-justice-fleet-ship-by-italian-authorities/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

In this episode we speak with Toni from Corporate Watch about Titan Airways, a charter airline company making millions from Britain's deportation regime.

She tells us how the firm is generating wealth by tearing families apart, making a killing from every juncture in the cycle of war, and using sport to wash its image.

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Check out Corporate Watch here: corporatewatch.org/

Follow Corporate Watch on BlueSky: @corporatewatch.bsky.social

And on Instagram: corporatewatchuk

Read Toni's co-authored article on Titan Airways here: https://corporatewatch.org/titan-airways-the-charter-airline-quietly-making-millions-from-deportations/

Read the UN document Ben and Toni mention in the episode: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=30524

For more on Corporate Watch, Air Partner and CarlsonWagonlit, check out episode 40 of The Civil Fleet Podcast.

Here's an article about former British Prime Minister praising Italy's return hub deal with Albania: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgddpq44qjt. And here's another: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-asylum-seekers-albania-meloni-italy-b2612898.html

For more on Deportation Watch, see here: https://uk.deportationwatch.net/en

For more on Britain, listen to episodes: 83, 82, 73, 67, 63, 62, 61, 57, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21 and 11.

You can sign JCWI's petition calling for an end to the UK and France's 1-in-1-out deal here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-racist-and-cruel-one-in-one-out-deportations/

Toni mentions Gary Stevenson and his YouTube channel, Gary's Economics. If you've somehow not heard of him, check him out here: youtube.com/@garyseconomics

Toni references former England footballer and pundit Gary Lineker and the Patriotic Millionaires group calling on the British government to tax them more. Check them out here: https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

According to Flightradar24, July 23, 2026 had the most commercial flights in a single day than any other in history: https://www.newsweek.com/global-air-travel-had-busiest-day-on-record-12245968

Ben mentions No Name Kitchen and Sea-Watch. For more on the former, see episodes 87, 63, 59, 58, 51, 41, and 6, and listen to episodes 90, 70, 65, 43, 22, 7 and 1 for the latter.