External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

Al Arabiya English

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

Al Arabiya English

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.'

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

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

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

The Guardian

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

The Guardian

The global Transition tipping point has arrived - vive la révolution

A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up

The Guardian

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global system

The Guardian

Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry

Resource scarcity, competition to dominate Eurasian energy corridors, are behind Russian militarism and US interference

The Guardian

Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels

From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

The Guardian

Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist

From North America to Europe, the 'national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism

The Guardian

US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis

Senior figures from industry, military and politics explore risks of financial chaos, oil depletion and climate catastrophe

The Guardian

Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'

Industry expert warns of grim future of 'recession' driven 'resource wars' at University College London lecture

The Guardian

Former government adviser believes warnings of extremist attacks were ignored

Concerns about jihadist action against British soldiers 'fell on deaf ears,' says Jahan Mahmood

The Independent

Dramatic decline in industrial agriculture could herald 'peak food'

Most conventional yield projection models are oblivious to the real world say US researchers

The Guardian

'Whole world' at risk from simultaneous droughts, famines, epidemics: scientists

Research published by US National Academy of Sciences warns climate change impacts could be worse than thought

The Guardian

UK’s flawed counter-terrorism strategy

Insiders across government reveal intelligence gathering focus is ‘alienating communities’ and ‘ignoring extremism’

Le Monde diplomatique