Nafeez M Ahmed

The alt-right has taken the political centre. It’s not too late to win it back

A new incarnation of right-wing politics has taken hold of the mainstream. Its ideas and language, funded by billionaires, have been carried by politicians and pundits out of the fringes. Now that we can map this extensive network more fully, we can fight it.

Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown

We are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible

How the West built Huawei’s genocidal surveillance complex in China

Britain’s capitulation to China’s Huawei is nothing new — for years, Western firms have profited from the world’s largest authoritarian surveillance project

West’s ‘dust bowl’ future now ‘locked in’, as world risks imminent food crisis

Past climate emissions mean parts of US and Europe will experience devastating drought in 80 years, and a global food crisis could be triggered in the 2020s — yet it’s not too late to build resilience and avert the worst

Documents confirm UK govt kept door open to US interests in NHS

Exactly how open is still not clear. The government needs to come clean.

The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun

Scientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after?

The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy

White privilege leads to cherry-picked misreadings of data on worldwide struggles of people of colour (and beyond)

U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects

Boris Johnson's destruction of democracy is making it easier for the hard right to ruin our planet

The vision that Boris and his clique represent is plain (for some of us) to see. They appear to be unabashed authoritarians, and their grand scheme consists of austerity for the poor, welfare for the wealthy and marginalisation for minorities

Behind Islamophobia Is a Global Movement of Anti-Semites

The world’s Jewish and Muslim communities are both in the firing line of far-right groups forged in the historic bowels of Nazism

The global pandemic of anti-Muslim genocidal violence

Post-9/11 wars may have killed up to 6 million people in a global system that could be on the verge of a tipping point

War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene

The biophysical-economics and military-logics of industrial hyperreality

US Intelligence on Iran Supports An “Almost Impossible” Scenario, says Former Navy Officer

Why the US’ version of events about the attacking of a Japanese-owned oil tanker raises more questions than answers

Former Naval officer exposes flaws in US intel on Iran oil tanker attack

Japanese government sources point finger of suspicion at US and Israel as Trump accelerates policy of ‘energy dominance’

How US climate deniers are working with far-right racists to hijack Brexit for Big Oil

New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ Starting in 2050

The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military

Smart Cities and Automated Racism

How IBM Designed China’s Surveillance Regime

Silicon Valley’s scramble for China

Western technology companies have played a pivotal role in building China’s authoritarian smart cities

Escaping extinction through paradigm shift

‘Rebellion’ is not enough. We need to build new systems from the ground up, right now

Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change

The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries

Erdogan worked “hand in glove” with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir

‘Islamic State’ terror group liaised directly with Turkish intelligence according to commander

Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?

Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries

‘White genocide’ theorists worm their way into the West’s mainstream

White supremacist ideology and proposals or action against Muslims aren’t just online. Through thinktanks and rightwing politicians they have been made credible in government and media in the US and Europe

The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror

From Republicans to Eurosceptic parties, the ‘Vienna school’ ideology of terrorist Anders Breivik is spreading like a terminal cancer