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Articles of the author Nafeez Ahmed
The dark side of Trump
“I really believe that we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them.” These were US Democratic Party politician Hillary Clinton's words just (...)

13 - 04 - 2017
The break-up of the Middle East
All eyes are on the battle for Mosul in northern Iraq. Will the Coalition defeat the Islamic State (IS) group that has been holding the city or not? In the end, it won't matter. If we have learned anything from the last 14 years of fighting the “war (...)

23 - 03 - 2017
Trump's terrorist friends
President-elect Donald Trump has gone out of his way to portray himself as a hard man in the fight against terror. He'd “quickly and decisively bomb the hell” out of the Islamic State (IS), he has claimed, and he'd even deploy US troops into Iraq – (...)

29 - 11 - 2016
The new ‘two-state solution' that will colonise Palestine
A powerful pro-Israel policy group with ties to the Barack Obama administration and the Israeli military intelligence establishment is promoting plans for a “two-state solution” that would subordinate Palestinians to Israeli military rule, (...)

23 - 08 - 2016
How G4S tolerated the homophobic hatred of Orlando's IS terrorist
Omar Mateen, the terrorist who massacred 49 people and left 53 injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) in a 911 phone call during the attack. The connection has rightly drawn attention to the (...)

14 - 06 - 2016
Western warmongers are wrong
Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western military escalation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya is on the rise. The renewed military interventionism has been largely justified as a response to the meteoric rise of Islamic State (IS) (...)

09 - 02 - 2016
Cameron's illiterate proposals
Dear Prime Minister David Cameron, It is with great regret that I write to you (again) about countering radicalisation in the UK, this time in relation to your bizarre conflation of people having difficulties speaking English with the threat of (...)

26 - 01 - 2016
The costs of doing business
Fifteen years into the 21st century, humanity has made little progress in addressing major threats to civilisation. In fact, on terrorism, climate change and the economy, we're not making progress at all, but are making things worse. The “war on (...)

30 - 12 - 2015
Russia's failing war in Syria
For the last few years, the Saudi kingdom's insistence on pumping oil at high capacity has dramatically depressed oil prices. The result has undermined Saudi Arabia's major oil rivals in OPEC such as Iran and Venezuela. It has also hit Russia (...)

04 - 11 - 2015
Apocalypse in Syria and beyond
Apparently, Ahrar Al-Sham Al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Movement of the Free Men of Syria), one of the largest rebel groups in Syria, is going through a moderate ideological transformation. Or at least that's what one might think from the recent spate (...)

21 - 10 - 2015
A new Cold War conflict
Russia is bombing “terrorists” in Syria, and the US is understandably peeved. A day after the bombing began, US President Barack Obama's defence secretary, Ashton Carter, complained that most Russian strikes “were in areas where there were probably (...)

13 - 10 - 2015
Climate emergencies and oil wars
The US army is preparing for a new era of war for oil. While energy has always played a role in military conflicts, US military experts now believe the geopolitics of energy, land and water are increasingly central to who rules, or ruins, the (...)

18 - 08 - 2015
Oil and the Iran deal
The Iran nuclear deal signals a major shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Integral to the equation are oil, economics, terror and US hegemony. The former Bush administration had initiated a long-term covert strategy to undermine Iranian (...)

04 - 08 - 2015
Endless enemies
Geopolitics is a murky game. Precisely how murky is reflected in the well-worn saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” What happens, though, when you subscribe to the sentiment with the faith of a religious believer? Now that the war on the (...)

21 - 07 - 2015
The Arab world's triple crisis
LONDON: Economic want and inequality, as much as political repression, incited the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions. It is, of course, to be hoped that new governments in these countries, and other Arab leaders, will better address ordinary (...)

16 - 02 - 2011
The great transition: Beyond carbon
If there is one thing that defines the 21st century, it is the end of oil. But not just oil. Over the coming decades, we face the prospect of terminal depletion of the world's major mineral energy reserves, with major ramifications for the future of (...)

24 - 09 - 2010
Sliding toward climate catastrophe
Unprecedented heatwaves in Russia, fatal floods in Pakistan, the breaking up of the Greenland ice-sheet. The coincidence and severity of such natural disasters in recent months has prompted renewed debate about the role of global warming, and (...)

06 - 09 - 2010
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