Articles by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

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Global Heatwave Is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Aug 2018

1 Aug 2018 – The extreme weather events of the summer of 2018 are not just symptoms of climate breakdown. They are early stage warnings of a protracted process of civilisational collapse as industrial societies face some of the opening symptoms of having already breached the limits of a safe climate. These events are a taste of things to come on a business-as-usual trajectory.

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INSURGE’s Pentagon-Gulf States-Turkey-ISIS Axis Report Makes National Headlines in Germany
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2015

28 May 20125 – Last week, my crowdfunded investigative journalism project, INSURGEintelligence, was able to break into the mainstream a story about startling assertions contained in a just released declassified Pentagon intelligence report, confirming that the West, the Gulf states and Turkey had, essentially, created ISIS through their support for Islamist militant rebels in Syria.

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Scientific Responsibility in Counting the War Dead – A Response to Washington Post and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2015

The more I looked into the matter, the more perturbed I became by Iraq Body Count’s odd relationships to US and European government agencies, questionable public statements, and pathological obsession with defending IBC methodologies. My investigation showed, for the first time, that Spagat’s work itself is false, fraudulent, and unreliable.

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How the West Created the Islamic State
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - CounterPunch, 15 Sep 2014

Missing from the chorus of outrage has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence in directly sponsoring the Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, which broke away from al-Qaeda to form the Islamic State (IS).

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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists (Part III)
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2014

The U.S. Department of Defense’s multimillion dollar university research program, the Minerva Research Initiative, is developing new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to capture and analyze social media posts.

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Whistleblower: Al-Qaeda Chief Was US Asset – Did State Department Block Sunday Times Exposé of Pentagon Terrorist Ties?
Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – Huffington Post, 27 May 2013

Abridged version based on full investigative report at Ceasefire Magazine. A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on links between the US government, international terrorist networks, and organised crime.

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The Economics Conditions Driving Riot Fever: Burning Britain
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2011

However the government chooses to now respond to the escalating violence, there can be no doubt that the episode represents a fundamental turning-point for British society, in a world that has already passed the tipping point on a whole range of interconnected systemic crises. The danger is that the authorities will offer the traditional, knee-jerk, business-as-usual response of maximizing police state powers, rather than addressing the root causes of our predicament.

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The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2011

The toppling of dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia in the wake of mass protests and bloody street clashes has been widely recognized as signifying a major transformation in the future of politics and geopolitics for the major countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). There is little doubt that the Tunisian experience triggered the escalation of unprecedented protests in Egypt against the Mubarak regime. The question on every media pundit’s lips is, ‘Will events in Tunisia and Egypt have a domino effect throughout the Arab world?’

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Pakistan and America: Costs of Militarism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2010

Pakistan’s immense problems can begin to be solved only when powerful interests in Islamabad and Washington end their commitment to armed solutions.

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HITCHENS HAS NO CLOTHES: A RESPONSE TO ‘VIDAL LOCO’
Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, MA DPhil (Sussex) – The Independent, 7 Feb 2010

In his February Vanity Fair hitpiece, Christopher Hitchens argues that the post-9/11 world has driven Gore Vidal ‘Loco’ – the signs, he says, were always there, but 9/11 and events thereafter ‘accentuated a crackpot strain that gradually asserted itself as dominant.’ Hitchens begins his missive with Gore’s take on 9/11 itself, in which he ‘insinuated […]

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OBAMA: REGIME ROTATION
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 28 Jan 2009

The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately […]

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GAZA CATASTROPHE: RESOURCE CONFLIC?
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 9 Jan 2009

Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel’s Subversion of the ‘Peace Process’ Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end to the rocket-fire. […]

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