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New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:09 - 2 Comments

Analysis | ‘Keeping the peace’ in Somalia

David Cameron opens the Somalia conference in London, 23 Feb 2012 . (Photograph: Matt Dunham/AFP/Getty Images)

Elliot Murphy provides an unsettling account of the latest developments in Somalia, and warns against Western calls for foreign intervention.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, May 7, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Bolivia: Morales announces May Day nationalisation amidst workers protests

Ali Sargent reports exclusively from La Paz, Bolivia, where Evo Morales's May Day announcement of another renationalisation has been overshadowed by mass workers protests and strikes.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:00 - 6 Comments

Quebec Chronicles | A Maple Spring?

CLASSE spokespeople Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Jeanne Reynolds denounce violence (Source: Le Devoir)

In the first of her reports from Quebec, Jane Gatensby provides a compelling account of the largest student movement you've never heard of: Quebec's Carrés Rouges.

New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins, Olympics Watch - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 18:34 - 3 Comments

Notes from the Margins | Let the Games begin: London’s Dystopian Olympics

The official slogan of the London Olympics is to ‘inspire a generation’. But it is difficult to imagine who can be inspired by this dystopian marriage of corporate profiteering and a paranoid and overwheening national-security complex, argues Matt Carr in his latest column.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Ireland: No more a Teflon Taoiseach

In the second of her reports from Ireland, Ceasefire's Lily Murphy revisits the spectacular fall into disgrace of former PM Bernie Ahern in the wake of last month's Mahon tribunal corruption report.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, April 28, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Austerity cuts: the coalition’s shameful assault on the disabled

With the UK government cutting vital benefits for disabled people, Jonathan Benett investigates what the new policies mean for those accessing services on the ground

Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 15:02 - 4 Comments

Special Report | #London2012: an Olympian exercise in corporate greenwashing

Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy protest against Dow Chemicals' sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics

Amidst its lofty rhetoric about excellence and sustainability the London Olympics have chosen some of the world's most unethical companies as corporate sponsors. Phil England presents powerful first-hand testimonies from victims and campaigners dismayed and angry at this betrayal.

Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 15:50 - 0 Comments

Interview | Jeff Halper: “A two-state solution is no longer viable, we must stop talking about it”

Jeff Halper, co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) talks exclusively to Ceasefire's Livia Bergmeijer about the end of the two-state solution, the failure of the Palestinian Authority and how Israel is losing the moral war.

New in Ceasefire, Politics, Special Reports - Monday, April 23, 2012 17:32 - 9 Comments

Special Report | Selling the NHS: how parliament and the healthcare industry got cosy

In a hard-hitting investigative exposé, Andrew Robertson examines the network of vested interests that runs between Parliament and the private healthcare industry. This cosy, toxic relationship, he warns, threatens not only the future of the NHS but that of democracy in the UK.

New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch, Special Reports - Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 - 38 Comments

Special Report | Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics

Hosting the Olympics is often presented to us as an ideologically neutral opportunity to boost tourism and sports. In a thought-provoking piece Ceasefire Magazine's Ashok Kumar outlines a clear and consistent, yet barely noticed, pattern of the Games being used to fundamentally restructure the host City to the purposeful exclusion of its working class and ethnic minority residents.