Category: Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the Special Investigations and Global Trends Reporter at Byline Times, a systems theorist at the technology forecasting think-tank RethinkX, and a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems. He was previously ‘System Shift’ columnist at VICE’s science magazine Motherboard, and wrote The Guardian’s Earth insight blog. His work has also been published in The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Times, Sunday Times, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, Boston Globe, Toronto Star, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, The Correspondent, Yes! Magazine, Raw Story, New Internationalist, Huffington Post UK, Al-Arabiya English, AlterNet, The Ecologist, and Asia Times, among others. He is a bestselling author of seven books, including his latest, Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (2017). He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, won the 2010 Routledge-GCPS Essay Prize, and was a finalist for the Naples Prize awarded by the Royal Palace of Naples. He has been twice featured in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1000’ list of most globally influential Londoners and is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts.

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed’s guide to the eight unprecedented and undemocratic bills that the Tories are trying to pass this year

Nafeez Ahmed analyses eight bills which, taken as a whole, reveal an unprecedented and undemocratic ethno-nationalist power grab First Published in the Byline Times under the title Citizenship of Quarter of Britons at Risk as Conservatives Construct An Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure The focus on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown party antics has allowed the Conservative… Read More

Melanie Phillips wants to “destroy” the “Muslim world”

The idea of free speech is being deployed as a fig-leaf for privileged white commentators to justify the abuse of their ‘legal’ right to demonise people of colour writes Nafeez Ahmed Read More

Comment is white: far-right extremism’s subversion of the British media

Nafeez Ahmed explores the connections between the British media and far-right extremism Read More

David Cameron confidant promotes forced depopulation of Muslims in Europe

Senior Tory peer and former Times editor, Lord Finkelstein, sits on board of think-tank promoting far-right racism and extremism by Nafeez Ahmed Lord Daniel Finkelstein, a close confidant of Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has expressed his pride in providing a platform for racist far-right extremist views, and… Read More

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