By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, M.A., D.Phil (Sussex)
“A very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere.” Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP – UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003)
“Few thinkers weave as many threads into …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by OpenDemocracy.net
Pakistan is in the eye of many storms. It lies at the heart of the United States’s almost decade-long “war on terror”, with an ever-ambiguous position (in Washington’s view) as an unreliable and perhaps even renegade ally. It is a society riven by enormous social inequalities and deep political, religious and ethnic divisions. It is frequently hit by acts of pitiless violence, from the targeting by religious extremists of members of rival faiths to “drone attacks” by US forceswhich kill innocent civilians. Read the full story »
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Ceasefire Magazine
Only 500 generations ago, hunter-gatherers began cultivating crops and forming their tiny communities into social hierarchies. Around 15 to 20 generations ago, industrial capitalism erupted on …
Young Fabian New Media Officer, Alex Baker, caught up with Dr Ahmed to discuss his forthcoming book “A User’s guide to crisis of civilization: and how to save it”, in which Dr Ahmed argues that existing …
Crisis is a word we’ve been hearing a lot over the last couple of weeks and months. In recent days it has been applied to the floods in Pakistan, mudslides in China, wild fires in …
New research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that rice yields in many parts of Asia over the last 25 years have fallen already by about 10-20 per cent due …
This is my letter on latest developments in Pakistan/Afghanistan published in today’s Evening Standard:
The fuss over David Cameron’s comments on Pakistan exporting terror and his subsequent attempts to repair bridges has been hugely overblown. Given …
A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science has concluded that world coal production will peak next year. The study finds that on a business-as-usual scenario of exploitation (i.e. without efforts to curb fossil …
Prospect Magazine has today published my analysis of the US-Pakistan terror nexus on its blog here:
Since the release of 90,000 pages of classified US military intelligence on operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan by WikiLeaks, the …
Five years on from the London tube bombings, we remain no closer to a full, complete and impartial understanding of the terrible events of that day. Today, the coalition government has demonstrated that it has …
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October …
It is no surprise that President Obama decided to sack General Stanley McChrystal after he and his aides were quoted criticising the president and other senior administration officials in Rolling Stone – of all places. …
Lots of my friends and colleagues are concerned, if not downright depressed, by the Conservative Party’s ascension to the seat of government. They’re also equally, if not more, shocked that Tories did so with the …
In the UK, headlines are dominated by one thing: the hung parliament, and which party, or coalition of parties, is going to take power. Perhaps the subject slips to issues of economic crisis, with mention …
Toufic Machnouk with Derrick Conway MP, Dr Michael Kerr, Andy Love MP on Epilogue to review The 33- Day War written by Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski
By Toufic Machnouk
Structural violence is the effect of a systemic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are …
So far, Blair’s testimony before the Chilcot Inquiry has been seen as a largely self-incriminating affair, illustrating the extent not only to which Blair was willing to lie, or deceive himself and others, to go …
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed address a meeting in the House of Commons on the subject of social exclusion of Muslim communities in the UK. Co-sponsored by Dawn Butler, then UK Minister for Young Citizens and Youth …
Toufic Machnouk with Lord Norman Lamont & Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield on Middle East Today talking about the new US Administration’s policy towards Iran.
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following …
I know what America is, America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.
— Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, 2001
Submission to the Parliamentary Committee on Communities and Local Government
The Government’s understanding of extremism inadequately analyses the core social factors behind violent radicalization, seeing these …
By M. Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, …
By Dr. M. Shaheed Alam
This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.
A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century, determined to …
The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties and three additional protocols that set the standards in international law for humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention refers to the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of World War II, updating the terms …
Press TV: “Post Election Iran 2009, Special coverage – Show 3, Part 2 of 3″ – Interview with Timothy Towell (President of The Foreign Policy Group), Franklin Lamb (international lawyer), Toufic Machnouk (Institute …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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