# INSURGE intelligence archive **URL:** https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/c/insurge-intelligence-archive/5.md [Latest](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/tags.md) --- ## [I predicted the 2008 crash, the 2018 stock market dive, and the next crisis](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/i-predicted-the-2008-crash-the-2018-stock-market-dive-and-the-next-crisis/189)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [9 November 2022 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/i-predicted-the-2008-crash-the-2018-stock-market-dive-and-the-next-crisis/189 "2022-11-09T01:00:00Z")
Over the last two decades, my work as a systems theorist, academic and journalist has frequently anticipated major world events and trends. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftr… --- ## [The self-invention of Maajid Nawaz: Fact and fiction in the life of the counter-terror celebrity](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-self-invention-of-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-in-the-life-of-the-counter-terror-celebrity/188)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [13 January 2021 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-self-invention-of-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-in-the-life-of-the-counter-terror-celebrity/188 "2021-01-13T01:00:00Z")
Maajid Nawaz, a native Briton of Pakistani background, tells a compelling personal story of his odyssey from extremist Islam to enlightenment. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageo… --- ## [This is how we end deforestation to avert pandemic, climate and societal collapse](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-we-end-deforestation-to-avert-pandemic-climate-and-societal-collapse/187)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [4 August 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-we-end-deforestation-to-avert-pandemic-climate-and-societal-collapse/187 "2020-08-04T02:00:00Z")
The COVID-19 pandemic did not come out of the blue. It was a symptom of the fundamental structures of industrial civilisation, and it is an early warning signal for how this civilisation is rapidly eroding the very condi… --- ## [Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/green-economic-growth-is-an-article-of-faith-devoid-of-scientific-evidence/186)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 July 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/green-economic-growth-is-an-article-of-faith-devoid-of-scientific-evidence/186 "2020-07-07T02:00:00Z")
For years, financial institutions and governments have been focused on the idea of ‘decoupling’ GDP growth from resource use. This has been driven by the recognition that to stay within the ‘safe limit’ of 2 degrees Cels… --- ## [Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/185)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [19 June 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/185 "2020-06-19T02:00:00Z")
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageof… --- ## [White Supremacism and the Earth System](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system/184)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [5 June 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system/184 "2020-06-05T02:00:00Z")
The US is on the brink of becoming a racist failed state. It is no accident that this terrible moment arrives in the midst of a global pandemic; an escalating economic crisis; an oil sector meltdown. This is a perfect st… --- ## [This is how America and Britain are maximising coronavirus deaths](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-america-and-britain-are-maximising-coronavirus-deaths/183)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 March 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-america-and-britain-are-maximising-coronavirus-deaths/183 "2020-03-12T01:00:00Z")
If you search on the web for the term ‘coronavirus bloodbath’ (which I did after I noticed the term occurring repeatedly in the press), you’ll notice that the headlines are not about the mass deaths of vulnerable people … --- ## [Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift/182)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 March 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift/182 "2020-03-02T01:00:00Z")
Five years ago, the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, an independent panel of distinguished scientists, issued a landmark report warning that over the next century, the world would inevitably e… --- ## [How the West built Huawei’s genocidal surveillance complex in China](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-the-west-built-huawei-s-genocidal-surveillance-complex-in-china/181)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [30 January 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-the-west-built-huawei-s-genocidal-surveillance-complex-in-china/181 "2020-01-30T01:00:00Z")
To the chagrin of the Donald Trump administration, Boris Johnson’s government is allowing Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G network — except its more “security critical” components including anything related to military … --- ## [West’s ‘dust bowl’ future now ‘locked in’, as world risks imminent food crisis](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/west-s-dust-bowl-future-now-locked-in-as-world-risks-imminent-food-crisis/180)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [31 December 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/west-s-dust-bowl-future-now-locked-in-as-world-risks-imminent-food-crisis/180 "2019-12-31T01:00:00Z")
The ‘locked in’ impacts of climate change are bound to produce “severe” impacts on societies over the next decades, according to new research sponsored by one of the world’s biggest financial agencies. Among those impact… --- ## [Documents confirm UK govt kept door open to US interests in NHS](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-confirm-uk-govt-kept-door-open-to-us-interests-in-nhs/179)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 November 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-confirm-uk-govt-kept-door-open-to-us-interests-in-nhs/179 "2019-11-28T01:00:00Z")
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has just announced that a dossier of 451-pages of secret government documents prove once and for all that Boris Johnson and the Conservative government have been in trade-talks with the … --- ## [The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-flawed-social-science-behind-extinction-rebellion-s-change-strategy/178)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 October 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-flawed-social-science-behind-extinction-rebellion-s-change-strategy/178 "2019-10-28T01:00:00Z")
We face a planetary emergency. It is, simultaneously, a national emergency — not just for the UK, where I write this from, but for every country in the world. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry… --- ## [The global pandemic of anti-Muslim genocidal violence](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-global-pandemic-of-anti-muslim-genocidal-violence/177)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 August 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-global-pandemic-of-anti-muslim-genocidal-violence/177 "2019-08-01T02:00:00Z")
Although death toll figures are often hotly contested due to their moral and political implications, even the most conservative figures demonstrate a colossal scale of deaths, raising urgent questions about the legitimac… --- ## [War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/war-empire-and-racism-in-the-anthropocene/176)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 June 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/war-empire-and-racism-in-the-anthropocene/176 "2019-06-28T02:00:00Z")
The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance… --- ## [Former Naval officer exposes flaws in US intel on Iran oil tanker attack](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/former-naval-officer-exposes-flaws-in-us-intel-on-iran-oil-tanker-attack/175)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [20 June 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/former-naval-officer-exposes-flaws-in-us-intel-on-iran-oil-tanker-attack/175 "2019-06-20T02:00:00Z")
The US government says that the evidence, including fragments of an exploded weapon and a magnet from an unexploded device, indicates that limpet mines were attached to the side of the oil tankers. The statement of a US … --- ## [Documents reveal Hollywood cover-up of Pentagon’s sex crime problem](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-reveal-hollywood-cover-up-of-pentagon-s-sex-crime-problem/174)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [31 May 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-reveal-hollywood-cover-up-of-pentagon-s-sex-crime-problem/174 "2019-05-31T02:00:00Z")
The US military has a sexual assault problem. But internal documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal that Hollywood has worked closely with the Pentagon to conceal the extent of the problem from public aware… --- ## [Escaping extinction through paradigm shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/escaping-extinction-through-paradigm-shift/173)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 May 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/escaping-extinction-through-paradigm-shift/173 "2019-05-11T02:00:00Z")
For the last month, as a journalist and academic, I’ve experienced a strange sensation of paralysis. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/escaping-extinction-th… --- ## [Erdogan worked “hand in glove” with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/erdogan-worked-hand-in-glove-with-isis-in-syria-claims-former-emir/172)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [3 April 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/erdogan-worked-hand-in-glove-with-isis-in-syria-claims-former-emir/172 "2019-04-03T01:00:00Z")
In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of “common interest”. This is a companion discussion … --- ## [The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-conservative-party-is-incubating-the-racism-behind-new-zealand-terror/171)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 March 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-conservative-party-is-incubating-the-racism-behind-new-zealand-terror/171 "2019-03-16T01:00:00Z")
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this de… --- ## [Brexit was triggered by climate-driven collapse in the Middle East](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/brexit-was-triggered-by-climate-driven-collapse-in-the-middle-east/170)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 March 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/brexit-was-triggered-by-climate-driven-collapse-in-the-middle-east/170 "2019-03-15T01:00:00Z")
Three years ago, a majority of British voters chose to leave the European Union (EU) — and in so doing set the clock ticking for the EU’s very future. The vote was won by a narrow majority of 51.9 percent. This is a co… --- ## [Whistleblowers say NSA still spies on American phones in hidden program](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/whistleblowers-say-nsa-still-spies-on-american-phones-in-hidden-program/169)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 March 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/whistleblowers-say-nsa-still-spies-on-american-phones-in-hidden-program/169 "2019-03-08T01:00:00Z")
On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has “quietly” shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. This is a compan… --- ## [White House admits knowing that Trump lobbyists helped Gazprom conquer an entire Balkan state](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-house-admits-knowing-that-trump-lobbyists-helped-gazprom-conquer-an-entire-balkan-state/168)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [27 February 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-house-admits-knowing-that-trump-lobbyists-helped-gazprom-conquer-an-entire-balkan-state/168 "2019-02-27T01:00:00Z")
By late 2016, Christopher Steele, former head of MI6’s Russia desk, had finished compiling his intelligence report purporting to contain evidence of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and senior Russian of… --- ## [The “disintegration” of global capitalism could unleash world war 3, warns top EU economist](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-disintegration-of-global-capitalism-could-unleash-world-war-3-warns-top-eu-economist/167)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [21 February 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-disintegration-of-global-capitalism-could-unleash-world-war-3-warns-top-eu-economist/167 "2019-02-21T01:00:00Z")
A senior European Commission economist has warned that a Third World War is an extremely “high probability” in coming years due to the disintegration of global capitalism. This is a companion discussion topic for the o… --- ## [Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/venezuela-s-collapse-is-a-window-into-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel/166)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 February 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/venezuela-s-collapse-is-a-window-into-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel/166 "2019-02-01T01:00:00Z")
For some, the crisis in Venezuela is all about the endemic corruption of Nicolás Maduro, continuing the broken legacy of Chavez’s ideological experiment in socialism under the mounting insidious influence of Putin. For o… --- ## [How collective intelligence can change your world, right now](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-collective-intelligence-can-change-your-world-right-now/165)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 January 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-collective-intelligence-can-change-your-world-right-now/165 "2019-01-12T01:00:00Z")
We face a convergence of escalating, interlinked crises. Every day, as these crises accelerate, the capacity to address them meaningfully seems to diminish. Not only are our institutions largely incapable of understandin… --- ## [2018: the tipping point](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/2018-the-tipping-point/164)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 January 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/2018-the-tipping-point/164 "2019-01-01T01:00:00Z")
Over the last few years, the sense that world events are accelerating in a way that is increasingly difficult to keep up with has become tangible. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://… --- ## [How Does Cinema War Propaganda Really Work?](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-does-cinema-war-propaganda-really-work/163)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [14 December 2018 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-does-cinema-war-propaganda-really-work/163 "2018-12-14T01:00:00Z")
As the co-authors of National Security Cinema, we have become known — rather inaccurately — for encouraging two major ideas:- This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.o… --- ## [Brexit: stage one in Europe’s slow-burn energy collapse](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/brexit-stage-one-in-europe-s-slow-burn-energy-collapse/162)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 December 2018 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/brexit-stage-one-in-europe-s-slow-burn-energy-collapse/162 "2018-12-11T01:00:00Z")
Everyone’s talking about Brexit. Some about the French riots. But no one’s talking about why they are happening, and what they really mean. They might think they are, but they are usually missing the point. This is a c… --- ## [Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalism-s-imminent-demise/161)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [20 October 2018 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalism-s-imminent-demise/161 "2018-10-20T01:00:00Z")
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy… --- ## [Comment is white: far-right extremism’s subversion of the British media](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/comment-is-white-far-right-extremism-s-subversion-of-the-british-media/160)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 October 2018 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/comment-is-white-far-right-extremism-s-subversion-of-the-british-media/160 "2018-10-17T01:00:00Z")
When fascism returns to Europe, you won’t hear the march of jackboots, but the complacent chuckling of white media pundits after brown and black people call them out for cosying up to far-right extremists. This is a co… [Next page](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/c/insurge-intelligence-archive/5.md?page=1)