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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.

Journalism

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

A personal journey

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Nafeez M Ahmed
Terrorism

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
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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
Politics

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

The World Wasted Trillions of Dollars on Fossil Fuels Because of Bad Math

The global measurement of fossil fuel subsidies is most likely wrong

VICE
Donald Trump

Republican insider: Trump is creating Deep State 2.0, but it might crash the economy (EXCLUSIVE)

Former GOP staffer says American president is a ‘mutation’ of unaccountable oligarchy pulling the strings of Democrats and Republicans alike

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Climate Change

Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine

Free your mind, find your power, change the world

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  • Andrew Markell
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Nafeez M Ahmed, Andrew Markell, Gunther Sonnenfeld
Donald Trump

How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State

A systemic crisis in the global Deep System has driven the violent radicalization of a Deep State faction

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39 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed
Energy

How global economic growth will drown in Trump’s oil glut after 2018

All the oil on the planet can’t save a financial system in overshoot, but another world is still possible

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19 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Trump's Plans for Fossil Fuels Will Shrink the Economy

Economies need energy to function, and we're running out

VICE
Women

Trump is the culmination of an invisible war on the world’s women

In response, women call on us to stand together in new relationships of unity, diversity and equality across Planet Earth

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8 min read
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Donald Trump is not the problem – he’s the symptom

Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context

openDemocracy
Energy

Brace for the oil, food and financial crash of 2018

80% of the world’s oil has peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy

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13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed
United States

Why the United States is at war with itself

The End of History is just the beginning

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10 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The UK's ‘national security’ plan? It's a blueprint for a police state

The report offers no insight on how Britain has destroyed the national security of other countries - and thereby threatened its own

Middle East Eye

We Need to Accept That Oil Is a Dying Industry

The new OPEC deal can't revive the fossil fuel industry

VICE
Energy

US shale boom has already ‘peaked’ says former govt geoscientist

Fracking revolution now in decline

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Nafeez M Ahmed

US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse

We talked to Nobel Prize-nominated Johan Galtung, who predicted that someone like Trump would win the US, and that it will trigger a decline in power

VICE

Washington insiders warn ‘anti-Semitic’ Trump administration could torpedo two-state solution

If Trump kills all prospects of a Palestinian state as Beltway insiders fear, an uprising – and the end of whatever security Israel has – is likely

Middle East Eye