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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
How The Pentagon Prepares Itself For A Dystopian Future
While average people are continuing their daily lives, the U.S. military is preparing itself for a dystopian future.
According to a video called "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity", earth in the year of 2030 will not be a nice place. Instead, many megacities with more than 10 million inhabitants will become a real threat.
In the five-minute video, an ominous voiceover tells us that megacities will be dominated by “criminal networks”, “substandard infrastructure”, “religious and ethnic tensions”, “impoverishment, slums”, “open landfills, over-burdened sewers”, and a “growing mass of unemployed".
In fact, the video is a dystopian classic.
Melancholy music and cascading images of sprawling slums and conflict settings are included.
The video has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University.
Unsurprisingly, it seems that the fearsome future doesn't lie in Western countries, but in regions that already have been devastated by U.S. foreign policy.
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