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.

The Islamic State’s reformist apologists

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

Middle East Eye

Tour Guide to the Khilafah

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

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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...

The Ecologist

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!)

Middle East Eye

How Big Money and Big Brother won the British Elections

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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

Middle East Eye

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

Middle East Eye

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

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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

Middle East Eye

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’

Middle East Eye

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

Middle East Eye

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

Middle East Eye

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

Middle East Eye

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...

The Ecologist

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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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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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