Post by Steve Gardner on Jan 20, 2008 20:25:17 GMT
The Cutting Edge is Nafeez Ahmed's extraordinary blog.
From the blog's description:
About Nafeez Ahmed.
From the blog's description:
Deep, critical commentary and analysis exposing the causes and consequences of the new "War on Terror"; its imperial origins, its destabilizing dynamic, and its catastrophic global impact in the context of increasingly unstable, overlapping economic, ecological, ideological, political and military crises.
About Nafeez Ahmed.
Political analyst on security, conflict and global crisis. Director of Institute for Policy Research & Development, London. Author of "The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry" (Duckworth, 2006) and "The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism" (Arris, Olive Branch, 2005). Teaching International Relations at University of Sussex; and postgraduate courses in globalisation and empire at Brunel University's Politics and History unit. Terrorism research was officially used by the 9/11 Commission (Washington); gave expert testimony in US Congress in 2005. Current PhD research is on European empires, violence, and genocide since the 15th century. My other books: "The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001" (2002), was an instant bestseller in the US, Germany and Italy, and won the latter’s Naples Prize; "Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq" (2003), examines role of energy in Western interventionism in the Middle East since the collapse of the Ottomon Empire up to Iraq War 2003. Have done political commentary for BBC World Service, Channel 4, Sky News, PBS Foreign Exchange, among many others.
