The Israeli Government Has Exaggerated The Iranian Threat For Years

Analysis: A leaked Mossad report suggests Israel’s own spy agency disagrees with the threat posed by Iran.

by Arron Merat

Archives for February 2015

Turning Hemp Fibers Into Batteries: Another Way Hemp Could Save Our Planet

One approach researchers are taking to boost supercapacitors’ energy density is to design better electrodes. And hemp, some think, could be that better electrode.

Turning Hemp Fibers Into Batteries: Another Way Hemp Could Save Our Planet

In this Oct. 5, 2013 photo, Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin harvests hemp on his farm in Springfield, Colo. Photo: P. Solomon Banda/AP

This piece first appeared in The Hemp Connoisseur Magazine.

Dr. David Mitlin, the head researcher of a group working on

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Oxfam: Could Take 100 Years To Rebuild Gaza

‘Only an end to the blockade of Gaza will ensure that people can rebuild their lives.’ —Catherine Essoyan, Oxfam

Oxfam: Could Take 100 Years To Rebuild Gaza

A Palestinian girl sits inside a room of her family's building which was damaged in last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. Despair and destruction continue to envelop the blockaded Gaza strip, where the

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Even AIPAC Objects To Netanyahu’s Congress Address

AIPAC prepared a detailed presentation that was given to Netanyahu with all the negative repercussions they believe would result from the controversial invitation to Congress and the cumulative damage.

Ben Caspit for Al-Monitor: AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the Israeli government’s long arm at the center of gravity of American power in Washington. The second most powerful lobby in

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Majority Of Americans Agree Fighting Climate Change A ‘Moral Obligation’

New poll shows majority of Americans believe human activity causes rising greenhouse gases and that people are ethically responsible to address it

Majority Of Americans Agree Fighting Climate Change A ‘Moral Obligation’

Steam from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the setting sun near St. Marys, Kan. A majority of Americans believe they are "morally obligated" to fight climate change, a new poll by Reuters/IPSOS has

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Despite U.N. Treaties, War On Drugs A Losing Battle

“This approach hasn’t reduced drug use or managed to control the illicit drug trade. Instead, it keeps drugs profitable and cartels powerful.” — Catherine Martin of Health Poverty Action

Despite U.N. Treaties, War On Drugs A Losing Battle

Protesters walk under a giant net and with their hands painted red during a march in Mexico City, Nov. 20, 2014. Mexico officially lists more than 22 thousand people as having gone missing since the start of the country's drug war in 2006. UNITED NATIONS  - As the call for the decriminalization of drugs

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MI5’s Jihadi John: How British Intelligence Primed Both Sides Of The Terror War

‘Jihadi John’ was able to join IS for one simple reason: from Quilliam to al-Muhajiroun, Britain’s loudest extremists have been groomed by the security services.

MI5’s Jihadi John: How British Intelligence Primed Both Sides Of The Terror War

A caricature by Syrian artist Yousef Abdeleki on ISIS' filmed executions. Every time there’s a terrorist attack that makes national headlines, the same talking heads seem to pop up like an obscene game of “whack-a-mole”. Often they appear one after the other across the media circuit, bobbing from celebrity television pundit to erudite

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Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the founding editor of the 100% reader-funded investigative journalism project INSURGE intelligence. His latest book is Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (Springer, 2017). He is an 18-year investigative journalist, formerly of The Guardian where he reported on the geopolitics of social, economic and environmental crises. He now reports on ‘global system change’ for VICE’s Motherboard. He has bylines in The Times, Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, among other places. He has twice won the Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting; twice been featured in the Evening Standard’s top 1,000 list of most influential Londoners; and won the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award created by the President of the Republic. Nafeez is also a widely-published and cited interdisciplinary academic applying complex systems analysis to ecological and political violence. He is a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute.

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