Nafeez M Ahmed

Western collusion with Egypt’s reign of terror

Germany’s detention without charge of a journalist critical of President Sisi is part of a pattern of Western collusion in Egypt’s war on democracy

Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040

Why are people joining the 'Islamic State'?

Ultimately, Western and Muslim violent extremists are merely two sides of the same coin, locked into a spiral of mutual mass murder

The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster

Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny

Is the next threat too many 'them' in a resource-scarce future?

Defence planners are haunted by visions of angry, marginalised black people endangering corporate power when climate change topples their governments

Iraq Body Count: undercounting death with pro-war cash

The Pentagon used IBC data for pro-occupation propaganda

George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade

Why the ‘liberal’ defence of the Iraq Body Count falls flat on its face

Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS

Renowned government whistleblowers weigh in on debate over controversial declassified document

Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’

A US intelligence report reveals that Western support for Syria’s rebels aided and abetted the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ - and the Pentagon won’t deny it

Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS

Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’

The Islamic State’s reformist apologists

We need a transformation, and it needs to cut across the Muslim and Western worlds, together

Tour Guide to the Khilafah

ISIS propagandist lures aggrieved Western Muslims with promise of luscious kebabs and untold wealth

War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure

The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people...

Good news: UK counter-extremism plans could be used to silence Katie Hopkins

Unless “British values” are to be equated with warmongering, corporate-profiteering and xenophobia, The Sun’s cheerleading for the latest European war agenda for Libya could mean the tabloid finally gets shut-down. Fingers-crossed! (Thanks Theresa!)

How Big Money and Big Brother won the British Elections

The US-Saudi war with OPEC to prolong oil’s dying empire

Whoever controls the price of oil can play god with the global economy - that’s why the US and Saudi Arabia are leading the way to smash OPEC and re-create a new global oil cartel

Food scarcity is fanning flames of ‘war on terror’

Behind the epidemic of global violence is a cascade of food price spikes linked to worsening resource constraints

How the Pentagon is hiding the dead

The secret campaign to undercount the ‘war on terror’ death toll in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America

Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990

Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades

The Pentagon plan to ‘divide and rule’ the Muslim world

Yemen is the latest casualty of a neoconservative strategy commissioned by the US Army to ‘capitalise on Sunni-Shia conflict’ in the Middle East - the goal is nothing short of ‘Western dominance’

Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism

The brutal ‘Islamic State’ is a symptom of a deepening crisis of civilisation premised on fossil fuel addiction, which is undermining Western hegemony and unravelling state power across the Muslim world

New age of water wars portends 'bleak future'

The world is already in the throes of an epidemic of local and regional water shortages, and unless this trend is reversed, it will lead to more forced migrations, civil unrest and outbreaks of conflict

How Blair’s Egyptian gas gambit advances the Israeli energy empire

Egypt’s BP gas deal is step one of a US-UK driven scheme to stave off energy crises afflicting the West’s favourite regional tyrants

Patriarchy is killing our planet - women alone can save her

The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources. The fight to save the Earth must begin with the empowerment of women - and that means ending our complicity in...