Nafeez M Ahmed

Nafeez M Ahmed

Creator of the Age of Transformation, a newsletter offering systems-thinking for the global phase-shift. Director, Unitas Futures Lab. Founder, System Shift Lab.

China faces looming energy crisis, warns state-funded study (EXCLUSIVE)

Fossil fuel decline puts Chinese and global economy at risk

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Nafeez M Ahmed

Scientists Urge ‘System Change’ to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change​

In a recent report, experts outlined four steps that could help us get on track

VICE

Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse

And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real

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13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible

The British firm wants clients to factor climate change into investment decisions

VICE

Pentagon study declares the American empire is ‘collapsing’

Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global “access to resources.”

Raw Story

Pentagon study declares American empire is ‘collapsing’

Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global ‘access to resources’

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Nafeez M Ahmed

Iraq War veterans warn: Mosul ‘victory’ is prelude to Iraqi state-failure

Months ago, Iraq War veterans accurately predicted not only the imminent victory in Mosul — but also the inevitable collapse of the Iraq into state-failure in its aftermath

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Nafeez M Ahmed

US and UK acting above the law to support the Saudi war in Yemen

A former State Department war crimes expert warns that arms sales to Saudi Arabia is ‘prohibited’ under US law - but the lethal exports still go ahead

Middle East Eye

We’re a Cheap Battery Away From Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

The chairman of Europe's biggest solar company tells us why Big Oil is facing an imminent threat

VICE

Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state

After the terrorist attack in Finsbury Park, the Tories proposed a series of policies that would effectively police and criminalise thoughts. This will do nothing whatsoever to address what incubates violent extremism

openDemocracy

3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies

As the old world dies, a new world is being born

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12 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

ISIS recruiter who radicalised London Bridge attackers was protected by MI5

From collusion to blowback

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13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

This is how to end Islamic State terror - and stop British foreign policy blowback

It's time for a difficult conversation about the British government's overt and covert military interventions which have made the UK a breeding ground for violent extremism

Middle East Eye

The Manchester Bombing: Blowback from British state collusion with jihadists abroad

A Briefing by Mark Curtis and Nafeez Ahmed

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How to fix journalism

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Journalism’s next frontier: crossing the threshold from having to being

A personal journey

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57 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Our children in Manchester paid the price of business as usual

A price some Western and Muslim leaders are all too willing to pay

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20 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Pillaging Palestine's gas? EU in danger of complicity in resource grab

New report questions whether an energy company developing Israeli gas reserves may also have been illegally extracting Palestinian resources

Middle East Eye

Kissinger is the dark side of Trump in Syria

By behaving erratically, US leaders can outmanoeuvre their rivals, but Kissinger's 'madman theory' tactics won't defeat IS or Assad in the end

Middle East Eye

The Robot Revolution Will Take Your Car, Your Mom’s Car, and All the Oil in 13 Years

A new report says self-driving electric vehicle fleets are poised to replace individual cars sooner than we think

VICE

Postscript to a letter to extremists

We can defeat extremism by building something beautiful together

openDemocracy

A love letter to extremists after the London attack

Extremists seek to drive a stake through the arena of co-existence, to sow fear and hatred. But we Londoners are not going to turn on each other, because that’s not what we do

Extra Newsfeed

Inside the secret Trump lobby that wants to profit from the break-up of Iraq

A network tied to Cambridge Analytica, Islamist insurgents, ExxonMobil and Koch convinced Trump to let go of Iraqi unity

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Nafeez M Ahmed

After Mosul: The coming break-up of Iraq and end of the Middle East

The battle against IS is a war no one will win. Here's the real battle we should be worrying about - and fighting

Middle East Eye