NEW ON YOUTUBE: The Iran War - and why fossil fuels have reached a tipping point...
@goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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wow that's odd isn't it. it takes a cat video to get noticed here too!
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Fascinating interview with @nafeez.bsky.social Ahmed. Donald 'drill baby drill' may have brought about the premature implosion of our 'fossil fuel' world. The bad news? Hell in the sort term. But in the longer term we have steps we can take that are good for...
A US Defence Analyst’s Warning to Britain: ‘I Watched Our Democracy Die. You’re Next’
A US defence analyst argues that the United States has become a zombie democracy, locked into decline - and that Reform UK is now planning the same for Britain
This is deep
🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵
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🔴James Orr and the Messianic Transatlantic MAGA Alliance Trying to 'Save' Britain
@peterjukes.bsky.social and @nafeez.bsky.social reveal how Nigel Farage’s new head of policy is the key ideological linkman for Palantir’s Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall’s GB News
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James Orr, Paul Marshall, Peter Thiel, Reform and MAGA - plus a lot of money - trying to impose their brand of right wing Christian nationalism on the UK. @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social dig out the background. Yes, Gove is in there. @humanists.uk
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Controversial polling promoted by the Tony Blair Institute, and criticised by academics, helped make the case for ‘regime change’ in Tehran
by @nafeez.bsky.social Ahmed
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Nigel Farage: "Frankly, this is exactly the kind of establishment whitewash people are sick to death of. This isn’t good enough. We need proper oversight, real accountability, and the courage to admit when something isn’t right. Not another brushed-under-the-carpet report from the usual suspects."
From my limited interactions with Democracy Volunteers, it did feel as if they had observed some instances of worrying behaviour, but also that their report into the by-election - and the response to the report - was overblown.
GMP say they spoke to Democracy Volunteers, who said they observed 32 instances of either more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, or people looking over the shoulder of voters. But there was no evidence of direction or coercion, which is key under the law.
Greater Manchester Police statement: "We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting."
Hey @lewisgoodall.com just watched a clip of your interview with Pat McFadden. Why were you pushing oil lobby lies and propaganda? If it was unintentional then here is an article explaining why drilling for more gas and oil will not solve our energy needs & costs. The tax rake you referenced is 🙄
If only there was some kind of massive, almost infinitely powerful nuclear fireball in the sky that we could use to obtain energy immediately, instead of waiting millions of years for organic decay then using that decayed material to poison everyone.
This is an excellent article. Highly recommended. 👇
🔴The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills
Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
🔴Reform UK’s Crypto Provider on Register That Housed North Korean Money Laundering
Byline Times investigation prompts calls by MPs to ban crypto donations, as alarm is raised about the methods used to finance Nigel Farage’s party
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NEW: The Fall of the American Empire. Traces the pattern from Rome's collapse through the 'adaptive cycle' to show that America is doing exactly what dying empires always do: expanding outward at maximum aggression as their material foundations give way.
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"If the risks it outlined are accurate, then the war with Iran will achieve the precise opposite of what it was designed to do: not the consolidation of American power, but its accelerated decline."
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
@nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
Lord Mandelson was appointed as US ambassador despite officials highlighting his financial links to a Russian defence technology company that produces radar and satellite communications for the country’s land-based missile early-warning system, new documents reveal
As I try to point out in my forthcoming piece for the print edition of Byline Times, Trump’s Christian Zionists are actually deeply antisemitic. They want Jews to provoke the Second Coming by fighting Muslims, and then they will be damned in the ‘rapture’ if they don’t convert
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I always find the work of @nafeez.bsky.social worth a read to step back and look at the wider picture of what's going on.
Screenshot of The Byline Times Trump Went to War With Iran to ‘Seize Oil’ as US Shale Enters Terminal Decline The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves Nafeez Ahmed 10 March 2026 Photo caption: Donald Trump speaks at a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026. Photo: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
🚨 A senior WH official has confirmed that US aims to seize control of Iran’s oil reserves – third largest in the world – at the precise moment America's own shale production is entering irreversible terminal decline.
@nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
➡️ bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
"Last year Trump told the world, 'we have obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.'
"So why are we having a war, a year on, to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities?"
#IranWar @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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We are at a turning point in which "the question is whether states respond to disruption by doubling down on extraction, militarisation, and emergency centralisation - or whether they use the shock to accelerate the next life-cycle through new production systems and new forms of governance."
What if the chaos is the point?
The #IranWar - and 30 year NeoCon plan adopted by #Trump analysed by @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with
@goldbergradio.bsky.social
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This is a fascinating read and well worth your time 👇🏻
