Fifteen years ago I predicted how systemic crises would drive the far-right takeover of Western heartlands of liberal democracy. The same pressures are about to rapidly unravel fascist projects over the next decade - including Trump's MAGA, Putin's Russia and Israel's Netanyahu
America is waging wars of expansion across two continents at the precise moment its energy foundations are giving way. The war on Iran is a stress test of a late-stage empire — and every indicator says it will fail.
This week’s headline is a sobering call – our fossil-fueled global system is brittle. Accelerating the shift to renewables and diplomacy isn’t just idealism; it’s the practical path to reduce the war and chaos that threaten everyday security.
Unfolding conflict across Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran is not just a regional breakdown, but a global systemic rupture in the context of the planetary phase shift as industrial civilisation moves through the last stages of its life-cycle.
Drawing on my research on genocidal colonial systems, I explore how the original concept of genocide invented by Polish Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin suggests that Hamas and Israel are both complicit in the co-production of genocidal violence.
