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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 …
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 Commission (UNMOVIC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). It was argued that Iraq’s alleged failure and refusal to comply with the weapons inspections and their requirements necessitated the military invasion and occupation of Iraq, commencing in March 2003. Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister at the time, insisted that the war was enacted with the aim of eliminating weapons of mass destruction, upholding the standing of the United Nations and replacing the authoritarian Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein with democratic governance. Read the full story »
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by The Huffington Post (UK)
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that five British terror suspects, the most notorious of which is the self-styled ex-Finsbury Park mosque cleric …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by The Huffington Post (UK)
Ever since ‘Black Hawk Down’, Somalia is not known as a country bearing good news. For over 20 years, the country has lacked a stable …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Foreign Policy in Focus
As the onslaught on Aleppo continues to spiral out of control, the future of Syria looks increasingly uncertain. Clashes between Assad’s forces, including tanks and …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Prospect
The situation in Syria continues to spiral out of control. Bashar al-Assad’s forces, including tanks and helicopter gunships, supported by Russia and Iran, are currently amassed around the …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Le Monde diplomatique
Despite the continuing debate about ‘Islamophobia’ and whether or not it is the right word, the reality of anti-Muslim bias in British media coverage of Islam …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Europe’s World
Afghanistan, to no one’s surprise, has come to dominate NATO summits. At their Lisbon meeting in November 2010, NATO countries decided to withdraw troops by 2014, and …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by The New Statesman
The deepening of the Eurozone crisis – with Greece, Spain and Italy on the brink and threatening to bring the rest of the EU down with …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Foreign Policy
Since NATO’s Lisbon summit in November 2010, debate has raged over the decision to draw-down troops from Afghanistan by 2014. And in less than a month, NATO …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Le Monde diplomatique
To say that Pakistan is at a crossroads is something of a truism. Over the last decade, the country has jumped from one political, constitutional and …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Ceasefire Magazine
Warzone
The rioting, looting and plunder that started in Tottenham on Saturday has now spread like wildfire throughout the capital. Shops were broken into, properties vandalized, and flats …
Recent publications have revived interest in Herman Daly’s proposal for a Steady-State Economy. This report by IPRD Research Associate, ecological historian Dr. Richard Smith, argues, that the idea of a steady-state capitalism is based on …
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 …
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 …
By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Written on the night of January 14th 2011
The dictator, thief and Western client Zein al-Abdine Ben Ali, beloved until a few hours ago in Paris and Washington, has been driven from Tunisia. His …
Launch of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – Published by Pluto Press / Macmillan (2010)
The first study of its kind, peer-reviewed by a multi-disciplinary panel of twelve …
By Robin Yassin-Kassab
M. Shahid Alam’s latest book “Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism” is a fascinating historical analysis, densely detailed and referenced, of the nature and trajectory of Jewish nationalism. It is bracingly honest, …
With the kind sponsorship of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, the IPRD cordially invites you to an exclusive book launch for A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It …
The military adventure that George W. Bush embarked on within months of his inauguration in 2001 was to eclipse everything else in his presidency. His name will forever be synonymous with the “war on terror.” …
65 percent of the world’s hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
— The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2008
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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