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.

White supremacists at the heart of Whitehall

Behind the facade of concern about terrorism is a network of extremist neoconservative ideologues, hell-bent on promoting discrimination and violence against Muslims and political activists who criticise Israeli and Western government policies

Middle East Eye

Death, drugs, and HSBC

Fraudulent blood money makes the world go round

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22 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years

The oceans have been absorbing the lion's share of global warming in recent years, sparing land dwellers the worst of the heat. That's about to change

VICE

The circus: How British intelligence primed both sides of the ‘terror war’

‘Jihadi John’ was able to join IS for one simple reason: from Quilliam to al-Muhajiroun, Britain’s loudest extremists have been groomed by the security services

Middle East Eye

The Bleak Science Bankrolled by the Pentagon

The Pentagon's latest call for research offers a unique look at where and how the military fears conflict will grip the world

VICE

Yemen’s collapse is a taste of things to come

Yemen’s crisis serves as a grave warning for the looming risks to states in coming years and decades, not just in the region, but around the world

Middle East Eye

Preventing dissent

Britain’s new police state will radicalise us all

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16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Saudi’s new king of terror

In a flurry of virtually falling over themselves to praise Saudi Arabia's new ruler, the press has overlooked his disturbing track record

Middle East Eye

No Piers Morgan. This is how to destroy the Islamic State

The religious façade is merely another element of IS propaganda, the mobilising ideology that provides a veneer of legitimacy for its existence

Middle East Eye

Energy market madness is the death spasm of the oil age - renewables now!

Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil and it's destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables - but the the International Energy Agency, which should be leading the transition, is in the grip of nuclear and fossil fuel interests.

The Ecologist

How Islamist rebels engineered Israel’s oil grab in Syria

Israel’s ambitions to conquer the Golan Heights and western hopes to topple Assad raise questions around the discovery of oil in the Golan

Middle East Eye

Why Google made the NSA

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet — part 2

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51 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How the CIA made Google

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet — part 1

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48 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

US ‘democracy promotion’ in Ukraine is about dominating ‘Greater Middle East’

Kerry and Abdullah’s plan was to damage Russia, Iran, Syria and Venezuela’s economies, thereby curtailing their geopolitical clout

Middle East Eye

Blowback in Paris

Recognising that the Paris atrocity is predictable blowback, does not absolve the perpetrators of responsibility for their terrible crimes; but it might help us find a path to safety

Middle East Eye

The End of Endless Growth: Part 2

Why the party’s not over after capitalism

VICE

The End of Endless Growth: Part 1

Industrial civilization is being disrupted by the limits of nature

VICE

US Army report calls for ‘military support’ of Israeli energy grab

US military strategists are contemplating the threat of war to redraw the Middle East’s energy architecture around Israel

Middle East Eye

Israel’s looming gas empire requires a final solution in Gaza

The fundamental obstacle to the 'peace package' and Israel's interests in becoming a regional energy hegemony is the continued existence of Hamas in Gaza

Middle East Eye

Who is responsible for the Pakistan school massacre?

Al Arabiya English

Why the war on ISIS will fail

To defeat ISIS we must study lessons in recent history, apply a drastic change of direction and do some serious soul-searching in our own role in fostering the instability that incubates extremism

Middle East Eye

America Is Committing Brutal Acts of Torture Right Now

AlterNet

How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030

A Stanford business professor predicts that today’s energy and automobile industries will be swept away in just over a decade by solar and wind power, and electric cars

VICE

Manifesto for a Media Revolution

The mainstream media is broken

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8 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed