Nafeez M Ahmed

The man who brought jihad to Britain, did so thanks to MI6

A BBC ‘investigation’ into Deobandi extremism bears the hallmarks of Whitehall propaganda

The US military industrial complex, Wall Street and Big Oil are vying to buy the presidency

A dummies guide to who might own the White House

The Astonishingly Crap Science of ‘Counter-Extremism’

The science behind government strategies to fight radicalisation is so ridiculously crap that the most academically accurate concept to capture this absurd level of crappiness is ‘bullshit’

‘Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says

A new study shows people may be censoring themselves without realizing it

Edward Snowden: ‘we must seize the means of communication’ to protect basic freedoms

Renowned NSA whistleblower calls for ‘radical’ popular action to take control of information technologies

Oil on the skids

The quiet power of oil and money has for decades enabled Saudi Arabia to buy silence and influence. But not for much longer

Could the Post-Pandemic Chaos of 'The Division' Really Happen?

I Made the World Collapse in 24 Days

Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS

Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy

The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future

US military contractors are mining social media to influence your ‘cognitive behavior’ when you get angry at the state

David Cameron’s illiterate proposal to counter-radicalisation by targeting Muslim women

The Prime Minister’s statistics on Muslim women struggling with the English language are fudged — and the British media has failed to notice

David Cameron’s illiterate counter-radicalisation proposals

The problem of illiteracy in wider British society makes the English language challenges affecting British Muslims look puny

Milo Yiannopoulos and his far-right support base want the ‘freedom’ to harass women they disagree with

Online harassment epidemic against women reveals a crisis of masculinity

Western warmongers have all the answers, and they're all wrong

The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again

The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris

And Ghaffar Hussain, a London Borough PREVENT manager, is listed as a co-leader for their million dollar project

How to change the world in 3 easy steps

Terror, climate chaos, financial crisis are the costs of ‘doing business’

The techno-narcissism of predatory neoliberal capitalism is locked into an endless war with the bastard monster of its own creation - Islamic State

David Cameron’s ‘counter extremism’ experts work with far-right Donald Trump sympathisers

Paris climate negotiations won’t stop the planet burning

Government negotiators in Paris are looking at banal details of how and when countries should commit to improving their voluntary pledges

How the mainstream media became a neo-Stalinist propaganda regime for wealthy neocons

Western firms primed to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’

Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’

Mass murder is fine as long we are the ones doing the killing to stop other people killing us

NATO is harbouring the Islamic State

Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks

ISIS wants to destroy the 'grey zone'. Here's how we defend it

After the Paris attacks, it is imperative that we safeguard this arena of co-existence, where people of all faith and none remain unified on the principles of common humanity

Ex-World Bank chief economist exposes “failure” of austerity, deregulation

Joseph Stiglitz, a senior OECD expert, slams OECD’s own policies to prevent global slowdown