Nafeez M Ahmed

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

West, Gulf complicity in oil-fuelled genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya

Burma’s Muslim minority is a casualty of a geopolitical tug of war between the West and China to dominate Asia

The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin

Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia

The Syrian terror trap

The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant

Ahrar al-Sham’s apocalyptic vision for Syria and beyond

Despite claims that Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham is taking a ‘moderate’ turn, its leaders still pursue a sectarian vision for the region

War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction

The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate

The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable

Deep-rooted structural realities means Saudi Arabia is on the brink of state failure, a process likely to take off in the next few years

EU banking chiefs are repressing their own workers to save the 1%

Insiders and internal documents from the European Central Bank show how powerful financial interests are eroding workers rights in the heart of Europe

Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests

Official documents show how oil and business interests trump democracy

Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria

Though the Gulf has called for the overthrow of Assad, sources suggest Obama agreed to Putin’s increased support for him

A thousand 9/11s

The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority

The UN's Sustainability Plan Is 'Doomed,' According to Linguistic Analysis

The sustainable development agenda may be well-intentioned, but it is too fixated on endless growth

UN plan to save Earth is “fig leaf” for Big Business: insiders

Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests

Indian anti-corruption official: state “orchestrated” Islamist terror

Mumbai atrocities enabled by intelligence operations of India, Pakistan and the United States

Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq

A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS

Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars

US Army research reveals the military’s latest strategies to safeguard the global fossil fuel system from threat of scarcity and climate disruption

Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales

In the scramble to access Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in ‘Islamic State’ oil smuggling

UK, US turn blind eye to Islamic State oil sales

Amid the scramble for Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are tied to Kurdish and Turkish institutions accused of facilitating IS oil sales