Nafeez M Ahmed

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements

The inevitable demise of the fossil fuel empire

Rocketing production costs, proliferating write-downs, stranded assets pave the way for renewable renaissance

US shale boom is over, energy revolution needed to avert blackouts

Global energy watchdog confirms 'the party's over' - lowers US production projections, demands urgent investment

Scientists vindicate 'Limits to Growth' – urge investment in 'circular economy'

Early warning of civilisational collapse by early to mid 21st century startlingly prescient - but opportunity for transition open

Exhaustion of cheap mineral resources is terraforming Earth – scientific report

Soaring costs of resource extraction require transition to post-industrial 'circular economy' to avoid collapse

The age of climate warfare is here. The military-industrial complex is ready. Are you?

The risk of climate conflict is real, but securitising the planet falls into the trap of those who profit from global conflict

Inclusive Capitalism Initiative is Trojan Horse to quell coming global revolt

Henry Jackson Society's pre-emptive PR offensive seeks to popularise parasitic economic growth for the few

Thailand militarisation is symptom of accelerating global system failure

Crippling fossil fuel dependency, climate volatility, rocketing debt levels are propelling protests, radicalising the state

Write-down of two-thirds of US shale oil explodes fracking myth

Industry's over-inflated reserve estimates are unravelling, and with it the 'American dream' of oil independence

Murdoch-owned media hypes lone metereologist's climate junk science

Absurd anti-science faux journalism flares up again - as usual, it's Big Oil that's set to benefit, not the public

IPCC reports 'diluted' under 'political pressure' to protect fossil fuel interests

Saudi-led coalition sought to make policy summaries as vague as possible to minimise climate action

Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games

Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interests

Think tank behind Tory foreign policy promotes Arab world fossil fuel hegemony

Henry Jackson Society courts corporate, political power to advance a distinctly illiberal oil and gas agenda in Mideast

Ex-Treasury adviser: no real recovery - growth 'hype' masks crash risk

GDP stats reveal same brand of unsustainable debt-led growth behind worst financial crisis since Great Depression

What climate denial, oil addiction and xenophobia have in common: Neocons

Breitbart comes to London, and the results are a sorry stain on British journalism

Tony Blair's Islamist obsession is a smokescreen to defend 'blood for oil'

The ever-looming spectre of 'Them' distracts us from the deeper, systemic causes of the Crisis of Civilisation

Israel smears landmark U.N. Arab report as ‘anti-Semitic’

The U.S.-Algerian security pact is about energy, not al-Qaeda

Five pathways to post-capitalist 'renaissance' by a former oil man

'Capitalism is torpedoing our prosperity, killing our economies, threatening our children. It must be re-engineered, root and branch.'

Leaked IPCC climate plan to worsen global warming - ecologists

Critics say bioenergy, carbon capture, among draft report's 'false solutions' to sustain business as usual economics

UN - climate 'perfect storm' is already here. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil

Business as usual is planetary suicide, but the 'incumbency' plans profit at cost of planet. Thing is, they're already dead

Ex govt adviser: "global market shock" from "oil crash" could hit in 2015

A former oil man calls for renewable "Renaissance" to ward off shale dystopia

Did Nasa fund 'civilisation collapse' study, or not?

Journalistic standards won't be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don't like

Iraq invasion was about oil

Maximising Persian Gulf oil flows to avert a potential global energy crisis motivated Iraq War planners - not WMD or democracy