An Applied Blueprint for the Restoration of Democracy

We have forged a new path aligning ecological, economic, journalistic and policy development. We see this synthesis as the future of a civic democracy.

  • Gunther Sonnenfeld
  • Andrew Markell
32 min read
Gunther Sonnenfeld, Andrew Markell

Whistleblower exposes how NATO’s leading ally is arming and funding ISIS

“I am the police chief who was asked to guard ISIS terrorists”

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
22 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Turkey’s secret pact with Islamic State exposed by operative behind wave of ISIS attacks

The elephant in NATO’s room: state-sponsorship of Daesh

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
9 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How America’s Afghan crusade came home to Orlando

Orlando ISIS gunman was embedded in expatriate US-backed Afghan jihad network

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
20 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media

Official US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
20 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Defence industry poised for billion dollar profits from global riot ‘contagion’

Forecasts of relentless civil unrest in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia seen as massive ‘investment opportunity’

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
5 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Join the Re-Generation! Designing Regenerative Cultures

  • Daniel Christian Wahl
7 min read
Daniel Christian Wahl

Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years

British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
7 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed
BBC

BBC Deobandi ‘investigation’ was authored by editor who secretly briefed Whitehall

Interviewee says BBC’s reporting misrepresented him

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
7 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The man who brought jihad to Britain, did so thanks to MI6

A BBC ‘investigation’ into Deobandi extremism bears the hallmarks of Whitehall propaganda

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
21 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The US military industrial complex, Wall Street and Big Oil are vying to buy the presidency

A dummies guide to who might own the White House

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
21 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Astonishingly Crap Science of ‘Counter-Extremism’

The science behind government strategies to fight radicalisation is so ridiculously crap that the most academically accurate concept to capture this absurd level of crappiness is ‘bullshit’

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
22 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria

American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making

  • Steve Topple
20 min read
Steve Topple

Edward Snowden: ‘we must seize the means of communication’ to protect basic freedoms

Renowned NSA whistleblower calls for ‘radical’ popular action to take control of information technologies

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
9 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future

US military contractors are mining social media to influence your ‘cognitive behavior’ when you get angry at the state

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
11 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

David Cameron’s illiterate proposal to counter-radicalisation by targeting Muslim women

The Prime Minister’s statistics on Muslim women struggling with the English language are fudged — and the British media has failed to notice

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Milo Yiannopoulos and his far-right support base want the ‘freedom’ to harass women they disagree with

Online harassment epidemic against women reveals a crisis of masculinity

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
15 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris

And Ghaffar Hussain, a London Borough PREVENT manager, is listed as a co-leader for their million dollar project

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
9 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How to change the world in 3 easy steps

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
7 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

David Cameron’s ‘counter extremism’ experts work with far-right Donald Trump sympathisers

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How the mainstream media became a neo-Stalinist propaganda regime for wealthy neocons

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
1 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Western firms primed to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
14 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

NATO is harbouring the Islamic State

Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Ex-World Bank chief economist exposes “failure” of austerity, deregulation

Joseph Stiglitz, a senior OECD expert, slams OECD’s own policies to prevent global slowdown

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
4 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed