External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

UK Govt Report: Oil Companies Drilling in the Arctic Will Find It's Unprofitable

The Arctic resource scramble is over—and so is the oil boom, warns UK defense ministry

Western firms sell drones, surveillance and riot solutions to Gulf tyrants for 'homeland security'

More guns equals more security? Arab citizens being kept 'safe' by their burgeoning 'homeland security' kingdoms might disagree

Troubling Development: Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’

Where did all the oil go? The peak is back

Solar power has grown exponentially and the target of 50 percent renewables by 2028 to avoid a 2C world is achievable

Your Shit-Powered Car of the Future Could Be Five Years Away

A new report explores the possibilities of using waste of all sorts—human, animal, and chemical—to power heating and transport

We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry – Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?

‘Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says

A new study shows people may be censoring themselves without realizing it

Oil on the skids

The quiet power of oil and money has for decades enabled Saudi Arabia to buy silence and influence. But not for much longer

Could the Post-Pandemic Chaos of 'The Division' Really Happen?

I Made the World Collapse in 24 Days

Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS

Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy

David Cameron’s illiterate counter-radicalisation proposals

The problem of illiteracy in wider British society makes the English language challenges affecting British Muslims look puny

Western warmongers have all the answers, and they're all wrong

The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again

Terror, climate chaos, financial crisis are the costs of ‘doing business’

The techno-narcissism of predatory neoliberal capitalism is locked into an endless war with the bastard monster of its own creation - Islamic State

Paris climate negotiations won’t stop the planet burning

Government negotiators in Paris are looking at banal details of how and when countries should commit to improving their voluntary pledges

Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’

Mass murder is fine as long we are the ones doing the killing to stop other people killing us

ISIS wants to destroy the 'grey zone'. Here's how we defend it

After the Paris attacks, it is imperative that we safeguard this arena of co-existence, where people of all faith and none remain unified on the principles of common humanity

West, Gulf complicity in oil-fuelled genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya

Burma’s Muslim minority is a casualty of a geopolitical tug of war between the West and China to dominate Asia

The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin

Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia

Ahrar al-Sham’s apocalyptic vision for Syria and beyond

Despite claims that Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham is taking a ‘moderate’ turn, its leaders still pursue a sectarian vision for the region

War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction

The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate

The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable

Deep-rooted structural realities means Saudi Arabia is on the brink of state failure, a process likely to take off in the next few years

Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria

Though the Gulf has called for the overthrow of Assad, sources suggest Obama agreed to Putin’s increased support for him

A thousand 9/11s

The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority

The UN's Sustainability Plan Is 'Doomed,' According to Linguistic Analysis

The sustainable development agenda may be well-intentioned, but it is too fixated on endless growth