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.

‘Violent’ Climate Activists Next Global Threat, Says Lobbying Group Funded by Russia and Big Oil

What do NATO and Vladimir Putin have in common? A mortal fear of climate protestors rooted in their systemic fossil fuel addiction

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Boris Johnson’s PR Guru Advising Firm Whose Founder Worked with Vladimir Putin’s Top Energy Crony

A tangled web of influence from Gazprom to the Conservative Party to GB News – at its epicentre is a Tory PR lobbyist who played a key role in Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign

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How Energy Disruption Led to Russia-Ukraine Crisis – and How the Crisis Will Accelerate Disruption

Rethink Disruption

Conservative Net Zero Scrutiny Group MP Retweets Fake News Publisher of Holocaust Denial

Steve Baker repeatedly retweeted the creator of a far-right Canadian website

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The Putin Doctrine: Trump Military Study Explains Why Putin May Escalate Nuclear Threats

A US Army study commissioned by Trump’s Secretary of the Army warned that a Russian ‘information blitzkrieg’ which began in 2014 could go nuclear if Putin believed he was losing a conventional war

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Defence Secretary Received Funding for Private Party from Law Firm Lobbying for Putin’s Sanctioned Banks

Along with three other Conservative MPs, Ben Wallace accepted a £10,000 donation from legal giant Squire Patton Boggs, which lobbied on behalf of Gazprombank and others

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Trump Military Study Saw Brexit as ‘First Step’ In Russian ‘Information Blitzkrieg’ on West

A US Army study commissioned by the former President’s Secretary of the Army warned that a global information war launched by Putin in 2014 could escalate into a display of Russian power in Eastern Europe

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Ukraine is Just the Beginning: Secret Document Reveals Putin’s Long War on Europe

A previously unreported internal US military analysis suggests the invasion of Ukraine is a culmination of Putin’s 15-year plan to dominate Eurasia, in revenge against NATO expansion

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UK Sanctions Will ‘Flop’ Because City of London Is Compromised by Russian Money

A former US defence advisor warns that Britain is likely to be the biggest drag on any Western sanctions initiative against Vladimir Putin

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Is Priti Patel Trying to Militarise Britain's Domestic Counter-Extremism?

An ex-Royal Marine Special Forces operations planner turned spy agency consultant is advising on the appointment of the next top counter-extremism commissioner

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COP26 Pledges will have Catastrophic Consequences Says Ex-NASA Climate Chief

Professor James Hansen believes the inadequate policies agreed at November’s UN climate change summit will lead to the planet breaching its 1.5°C danger zone this decade

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Advisor to Government Agency Demands Police Investigation Into ‘Criminal’ Healthcare Worker COVID Deaths

A formal complaint accuses the British Government of facilitating ‘the largest single health and safety disaster to befall the United Kingdom workforce since the introduction of asbestos products’

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The Conservative Cash Register: Boris Johnson’s Super-Rich Backers

The Prime Minister likes to be a ‘man of the people’ – but a new investigation reveals his political benefactors represent a tiny cabal of 46 extremely rich British financiers

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Rishi Sunak’s Energy Delusion

The Chancellor’s suggestion that a future of dirty, expensive energy is inevitable and that the public must simply accept it is false

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JP Morgan’s misinformation on the clean energy disruption – a handy guide

Rethink Disruption

Carbon Captured: The Fossil Fuel Industry & the UK Government's ‘Net Zero’ Advisory panel

Nafeez Ahmed looks at the way powerful oil and gas lobbies could be hijacking climate change policy at the expense of taxpayers

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Conservative Rebellion Against Johnson Led by Pandemic Disinformation Network

Steve Baker’s COVID Recovery Group was backed by a company whose chairman is also a director of Toby Young’s COVID website

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Enabling Acts: Citizenship of Quarter of Britons at Risk as Conservatives Construct an Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure

Nafeez Ahmed analyses eight bills which, taken as a whole, reveal an unprecedented and undemocratic ethno-nationalist power grab

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Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Ignores Demands for Inquiry into Peter Thiel’s Far-Right Influence

Cambridge University fails to answer questions raised by staff and students after Byline Times’ revelation that racist pseudoscience is being promoted on campus under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’

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Scientist Behind Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’ Theory Secured Funding from Pentagon’s Science Division

Nafeez Ahmed looks at the scientific credentials of the authors behind a book that has powered baseless speculation that the Chinese Government ‘engineered’ COVID-19

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Steve Baker’s Conservative Rebellion Tied to Pro-Trump Disinformation Network Bankrolled by Robert Mercer

The rebel Tory MP sits in the middle of hard-right lobby networks on climate change and the pandemic linked to Cambridge Analytica, reveal Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes

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Peter Thiel’s Free Speech for Race Science Crusade at Cambridge University REVEALED

In a special investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Palantir-linked Donald Trump lobbyists are using ‘free speech’ to normalise white nationalism on UK campuses

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For Whom the Bell: Curves Advisor to Johnson’s Levelling Up Ally Hosts Race Science Extremist

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a pioneer of scientific racism was hosted at British universities by a charity with close Conservative Party and Government ties

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Carbon Captured: The Links Between BP’s Law Firm, A Government Taskforce, & Billions in Public Contracts

Nafeez Ahmed explores the strange case of a Government climate change forum, and its apparent association with a major representative of the fossil fuel industry

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