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It gives us great pleasure to announce that the IPRD is an exciting transition phase. We have a spanking new team who are currently working hard behind the scenes to revamp the website in …
Various abridged versions of this piece have been published in Le Monde diplomatique, Daily News Egypt and Pakistan Observer.
Unprecedented heatwave in Russia, leading to uncontrollable wildfires. Floods in Pakistan the like of which have not …
The New Left Project (NLP) publishes the transcript of a lengthy interview with IPRD Executive Director, Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, by NLP’s Samia Aziz – on the nature, causes and future of Islamophobia in the UK …
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 …
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 …
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on The Real Deal with George Galloway talking about his new book A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it. Dr. Ahmed discusses global crisis …
1 billion children (every second child) live in absolute poverty — UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, 2005
10.6 million children died last year due to extreme poverty before they reached the age of 5 (equivalent …
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
For everyone on Earth to live at the current European average level of consumption, we would need more than double the biocapacity actually available – the equivalent of 2.1 planet Earths – to sustain us. If everyone consumed at the US rate, we would require nearly five.
— The New Economics Foundation, 23 January 2006
By Aisha Dennis and Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
According to British government officials, the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein systematically obstructed and undermined the weapons inspections programmes conducted by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections …
By M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan’s rulers and ruling elites may well be thinking that the wave of people’s indignation that started in Tunisia and is now working its way through Egypt, Jordan and Yemen will never …
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 …
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 …
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Weaving together …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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